If your water bill is super high this quarter, AND...
If your water bill is super high this quarter, AND you had Clear Reads to your home this quarter to replace your meter, this is why:
The water meters are not malfunctioning. The transmitters are malfunctioning. This is why they were out to replace all our meters. Water meters can't physically "spin faster" (aka account for water you are NOT using). If anything they spin normal, or slower than usual. Slower than usual benefits us, the consumers. However, if the transmitter was malfunctioning, in a sense that it was counting slower than the meter was moving, then you were being undercharged.
Basically Clear Reads took a picture of your meter before they disposed of it. Your high bill this quarter is the adjustment for their slow moving transmitters. The timing is unfortunate, right before Christmas .... but it is what it is.
I spoke with Dwayne after waiting on hold for ~ 10 minutes. Dwayne was very well spoken and professional. I'm very mechanically inclined, so I was able to communicate on a level of fully understanding the entire system. He also fully understood the mechanics behind how these things work.
Sucks my bill was $541 instead of the $145 it usually is, but I DID use the water, and I owe them. A discount would be nice, because their equipment was faulty, but they aren't obligated to do so.