Your Clarksville utility bill, line by line

This shelf takes the four bills a Clarksville house pays for water, sewer, gas and power, and shows where each dollar comes from. Every page leads with one published number and the date it took effect.

Where does a water and sewer bill come from?

Clarksville Gas & Water builds the bill from four lines: a meter charge, water usage, sewer usage and a flat compliance fee. At 5,000 gallons inside the city that comes to $76.95, and sewer is the largest part. The CGW water and sewer bill page walks through each line, the outside-city rates and the fees that can appear.

Why do summer bills climb?

Because sewer is billed on every metered gallon, water used on a lawn costs sewer money too. Doubling from 5,000 to 10,000 gallons lifts the inside-city bill to $139.90. The summer water bill page sets CGW's table beside NOAA rainfall normals for Clarksville and EPA's outdoor-use figures.

How can a meter show a hidden leak?

A two-hour reading with nothing running will show water moving that should not be. EPA puts the average home's leaks at more than 9,300 gallons a year, roughly $117 at CGW inside rates by our arithmetic. The leaks on the meter page has the test, the toilet dye check and who pays for a broken line.

What do gas and power cost?

At 1,000 kWh, CDE Lightband and CEMC bills land within about a dollar of each other, and CGW gas carries a commodity charge that changes monthly. The gas and electric rates page compares both power utilities and charts 20 months of gas commodity prices.

The two electric bills are our arithmetic from each utility's published rates, before taxes. Which one applies depends on your address, and neither utility publishes the boundary, so the name on your power bill settles it.

For the water itself, rather than its price, the water shelf covers hardness and the yearly quality report. The methods page explains how we choose and check sources.