Save Money on Water in Key Largo

The cost of water in Key Largo is not as easy as saying, for example, "it is $70.00 per 10,000 gallons of usage" - the price changes. In fact, it gradually goes up as you increase your monthly usage from 1,000 to 12,000 to 30,000 to over 50,000 gallons. Actually, $70.00 is a good average cost of water for your consumption at your house for usage in sprinkler, pool and home. You could say $7.00 per 1,000 gallons or 70 cents per 100 gallons or 7 cents per 10 gallons or less than a penny per gallon. Easy right

The biggest waste in water usage is running toilets and irrigation misuse or malfunction, especially during the summer’s rainy season (less than 5 months), which produces an average of about 40" of rain for the whole season. Turning your irrigation system off when it rains consistently or having a working rain sensor can save you a significant amount of money! Yet, leaving the system off during the rainy season can be a problem because the 40" of rain is not evenly spread through the season and you can have weeks of sever temperatures of 90 degrees or above and hot sun that will dirty out and kill some turf and landscape material.


Consider going Xeroscape (low or no water landscaping) on some area or irrigation zones of your yard. Also consider having a property manager or landscape professional help you with a plan to monitor and curtain water usage. People often look to the swimming pool as a water consumption source. In fact, a well built, well maintained pool uses very little water, especially if you compare it to irrigation water on a property that has lush landscaping. An inch of water loss in a 15,000-gallon pool, which is the average size of a residential pool, is 300 gallons or $2.10 worth of water. Your time to refill and the possibility that you may waste water in the process of filling by leaving the water running, is much more of a relevant cost than the water used to top off a pool from evaporation. 


We suggest that you fix any pool leaks ASAP, as they are costly. It also sets a trap for the person refilling the pool and forgetting to turn off the water.

 Running toilets are all too common in old and even new toilets. Flush a toilet and go on vacation just once and see what that will do to your water bill. Fix any toilet that occasionally runs or you will find out the cost of water the hard way.