Broadback wrote in message ...
mich wrote:

SNIP

I am on septic tank drainage and land drains onto my own land ( that sounds
grand but it isnt really - my own land is a field I own and the house is in
a second smaller field in front of it. Even the water board ( oops sorry
company - SWW by the way) tell me a water meter would not be cost effective
for me since I am not mains drainage.
My supply only of mains water costs about £115 a year this year.

That puzzles me, I am also not on main drainage, but the water meter has
nothing whatsoever to do with mains drainage. The water meter simply
measures the water you use, and charges accordingly, as oposed to a
standard charge for whatever water you use. So if you use little water
your
bill will reduce, ours did. Severn Trent Water though.

ISTR from a Thames Water leaflet say that the drainage portion of the
bill is based on a "what goes in must come out" assumption and that
they'll give you get a reduction if this isn't true in your case. My
latest bill actually tells me how much I could save if surface water
didn't go into their drains.

They will also search for leaks free. In my case they found a HUGE one
because the cowboys they hired to fit my meter used the wrong size
fitting.

Chris