The owner of the house I'm renting from called up the city about 2 weeks ago to come out and take a look at some water leakage around the property. On a rainy day you can't tell which is water run off and which is the leak. So it's not really bad but it's an issue. At the time of the phone call nobody was sure who's side on the yard it was on (city's responibility or ours/landlords). Mmmkay. So the landlord tells me that the city is like the cable company "they'll come out between this date and this date" Nobody is quite sure when. I was never informed.
So I wake up this morning to feed the dog, do my rounds, and start the day. I go to turn on the water and absolutely ZERO comes out. I poke my head out the back slider and see there is an orange cone over the water meter. Here I'm thinking Yippie! It's finally going to be fixed (hoping that the utility company is just out of my view working on the problem). No no no...couldn't be that easy. I open the garage door and all that stands out there is this orange cone. Turns out the city took it upon themselves to disconnect our water for us without, you know...24-48hr warning...
on a Friday.After saying a few choice words aloud to myself about the city...I open my front door and find a work order on my door handle that basically states the problem is on OUR side of the yard (which is not a big deal in and of itself) and then in the comments box the wise, presumably college educated man writes: "Leak is in yard behind water meter...
had to shut off - lots of water going out on the ground"
Uuhmmmm..yeaaaah. God forbid there is water on our neighborhood streets...in western washington...
I'm not a plumber, and I don't intend on paying a plumber to come out on a weekend. Are these meters usually electronically shut off? Because it looks like it is an electronically controlled valve. If it is I'm going to have to suck it up and call.
-Rob