jligh utility costs puzzle city
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FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1978
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ardell suggests that some of the
•tment residents left their ther-
tats on over the semester break
iat the apartment managers went
the apartments and turned the
on. If they hadn’t had heaters
jvery pipe would have frozen,”
Jell says.
■dents deny having left their
on. Peabody says, “Our plants
e all dead when we returned
a vacation, so I know it was cold
ere ” Caplan says the wires to his
He strip heater were still dis-
Jteeted and everything was still
judged when he returned from
tion.
e managers of the Sevilla and
hivest Village apartments deny
ling on the heat in their tenants
tments.
Ilia Apartment manager Peggy
i ni is angry at city officials for
jesting that apartment managers
lipred their tenants’ dwellings,
f nnset with the College Station
Hs for saying that,” Cowgill
HI have never gone into ally
's apartment without their per-
ipn."
Kftgill also says that apartment
7 alone would not prevent pipes
““’'‘'■breaking during freezing
then “We had no broken pipes,
tie had some people in every
a gCowgill says. “As long as you
jlome water running in the
■hey are not going to break. "
greon das hq managers of the Durango and
$i25Mtali ic ^ a P artments during the bil-
A 39RSS period have since left their pos-
ied,38RS2*|and could not be reached lor
^'“'tnent.
itigue, to:ardell says the city is mystified
s,3pr,32.:|tcomplaints from residents who
Jhey vacated their apartments
...shut off their electric power dur-
■ billing period. “Those meters
"t run unless there is current
ft into them from someplace, ”
" —■■"lell says.
isedina 16 managers of the Sevilla and
ane 8453iftvest Village apartments say
^■cently checked their units for
t|in the electric heaters and for
ftiring that may have occurred
fthe apartments were rewired
individual metering,
he Southwest Village manager,
Hsked that her name not be
|ays no shorts or cross-wiring
leen discovered in her build-
Sevilla’s superintendent of
■nance, Zane Gauthier says
I'Cross-wiring has been found in
'ex but no electrical shorts
sheen discovered.
■Jell says the only other possi-
explanation for the high bills is
icreased cost of power. At the
Ht 23 city council meeting Bar-
! said the fuel adjustment for the
ing period increased about .2
pnt over previous months. He
noted that power consumption
j up 32 percent over the same
|last year. College Station utility
ger George Ford says that the
. of the fuel adjustment for the
ing period was more than the
gost of the energy consumed,
ango resident Caplan says,
ypersonal opinion is that the city
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doesn’t read the meters regularly but
some times they estimate the bills.
Councilman Gary Halter says it all
comes out the same in the end but
we are all on fixed income,” Caplan
says. “We cannot afford to pay these
bills.”
Bardell says utility employees are
told to read every meter every
month. “I am not going to make a
blanket statement that all meters are
read every month,” Bardell says.
“But we instruct them to do this.”
Bardell says the city also has con
tracted with an independent agent
from Austin Meters, Inc. to check
the apartment meters. All of the
meters checked so far seem to be
working properly, Bardell says.
Utility officials in both College
Station and Bryan also say that no
power blackouts, brownouts or
surges occured during the billing
period that might account for irregu
lar meter readings.
Dissatisfied residents from the
Durango and Servilla apartments
have sent letters to Houston televi
sion newscaster Marvin Zindler.
They have also discussed their high
bills with Texas A&M legal counsel,
however no suits have been filed.
Residents can expect the high bills
to continue. Bardell says that the
cold January and February weather
combined with increased fuel costs
will probably result in utility bills
that are twice as high as the bills
residents are currently complaining
about.
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