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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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Default Leaky Toilet -- how much water will it waste?

On 9/29/2017 3:14 PM, Bill wrote:
replying to Andrew Richman, Bill wrote:
The water Department said that I used 97,000 gallons in a month, I pay on
average about $67.00 a month.Â* The plumber/inspector said he has seen this
before, he replaced the flapper and valve and the meter showed normal use
after installed.
I have a hearing problem so I did' not hear any water running.Â* Is that
really
possible?



In spite of being a very old post, it does bring up a problem that any
of us can have. At work I used to read our meter every month. One
month it was about 12,000 gallons more than normal. We found a leaking
toilet. We have about 30 toilets so it is easily missed,