Cobb (near Atlanta) County Home Uses Enough Water For Neighborhood - 440,000gal in one month

[DS1]

http://www.wsbtv.com/drought/14545360/detail.html


Cobb Water officials are drafting a warning letter to high water users. Soon, rates will nearly double for customers who use more than their share. Channel 2 dug through the records and found the top home on the list.

Channel 2 obtained months and months of records from the Cobb County Water System. One address rose to the top of the list month after month – a single house that last month used enough water to fill 1,000 hot tubs.

“I think it’s absurd, I really do,” said Ken Scott. Scott lives across the street from 4151 Thunderbird Drive. It’s a single home that uses as much water as a 60 home subdivision.

“With all the pressure on everybody not to use water and to conserve…I think it’s ridiculous,” said Scott.

Over the past six months the address has used an average of 390,000 gallons of water. Last month it was 440,000 – up 15% from last October when there was no crisis. That one home would drain the nearby water plant’s filtration field in less than a year.

[MichiganVote]

1. Yeah and this why the Great Lakes states say, horse puckey to moving the water.

[northernsoul]

7. Yep

I'm happy to make sure you don't dehydrate, not so happy to see Lake Superior drained to supply your McMansion.

[AlCzervik]

2. What the hell? Waterboarding camp?

[Sequoia]

32. LOL !

[KoKo]

44. "them marijuana plants take up A LOT of H20...they don't drink Coca Cola..

:shrug: Could this be one of those "McMansions with the large basements where illegal "growing" is taking place?

[ulysses]

3. let them drink mcmansion.

Yup, charming folks down this way.

[Rockholm]

4. How many people live in that house?

[Adsos Letter]

5. Massive hydroponics system?

Check that electrical bill...


:smoke:

[aquart]

8. We think alike.

Probably just some experimental tomatoes. Or the pool. Big pool.

Then, too, an OCD handwasher can be really dangerous in this situation.

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. LOL! Weeds.

Just sayin'. :smoke:

[KharmaTrain]

52. That's The First Thing That Came To My Mind...

About a year ago they busted a huge McMansion not far from here that was the ultimate hothouse...three floors of nothing but tubing, grow lights and the delicious odor of canibus on the vine. :rofl:

The tip off wasn't even the high electric or water bill (I think the paper said they consumed about 100,000 gallons a month) but complaints from neighbors of large trucks moving in and out of the property. I could just see these 18-wheelers loaded to the brim.

:rofl:

[Pirate Smile]

6. Do they leave all the faucets and showers running 24/7? How are they

using so much damn water? Pools, hot tubs, fountains? No self-absorbtion problem there. Do they ever watch the news or read the paper?

Wow.

[napi21]

9. I guess I'm either stupid or navie, but what in the world are they doing there?

I realiz it's a BIG house, and probably has a number of servants, but that's a WHOLE LOT of water!

[Richard Steele]

21. Running sprinklers all day, every day, for starters.

Just a guess, from viewing that pic.

[vireo]

10. Is that the Gingrich estate?

Probably due to excessive hot tub usage.

[slackmaster]

33. No, owner is registered as Chris G. Carlos

14,511 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, and a 5,438 square foot basement.

Maybe he's converted that into an indoor pool.

Mr. Carlos purchased the home on December 19, 2001 for $500,000.

BTW his last annual property tax was $37,613.64.

[spotbird]

11. Whatever they're doing with the

water, doubling there bill isn't going to do much to stop them. They seem to have quite a bit of money.

[kestrel91316]

15. You are right. What they OUGHT to do is SHUT THEIR WATER OFF

each month the day they exceed their monthly allotment.

What part of "running out of water" don't these people get? Oh, I get it. Conservation is for the Little People.

[supernova]

19. Heh. That would be fun

:D

[tnlefty]

25. Actually, my first thought was to yank out that damned meter and

install a normal, residential meter, and then shut them off!

Self absorbed assholes. :mad:

[struggle4progress]

38. Tell em to flush their commodes and water their lawns with Perrier

[Fleshdancer]

12. GWB donor

I found the address on the Fundrace 2008 from the Huffington website. You can check the 2004 records. $2000 to GWB. Big shock, I know. :eyes:

[spotbird]

13. Link

Chris G. Carlos

[tkmorris]

14. Hmmm

Guy is described as a "self-employed investor". Uh-huh. He's growing something in there.

[tridim]

37. Even if every square foot was filled with plants he still wouldn't need that much water

Maybe he's storing the water because he knows it'll be a hot commodity in a few months. If that doesn't sound like a Bushbot I don't know what does.

[kestrel91316]

16. Bad link. I just get an error.

But Mr. Carlos' name is out there now. I hope he is shamed into changing his ways.

[spotbird]

24. fixed nt

[devilgrrl]

17. but but but what about John Edwards' or Al Gore's house?

:sarcasm:

[robinlynne]

40. girl. I bet you're glad you put that flashing sarcasm thingie!

[supernova]

18. How in the hell do you use up 390,000 gallons of water?

:wtf:

That house isn't that big.

[Tesha]

26. Flush the toilet 243,750 times? (8125 times each day) (NT)

[spotbird]

20. Parents, George and Barbara

http://atlanta.goarch.org/aam2006/archmichael.pdf

You can't make this stuff up, (page 88 of 90).

[spotbird]

23. IRS problems

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:vGkJYsekHqcJ:www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2001/08/27/story3.html%3Fjst%3Ds_cn_hl+%22george+carlos%22+atlanta&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Chris Carlos will not have a problem paying the doubled water bill.

[Mike03]

22. Random question: Is Fayetteville in Cobb County?

Maybe it's changed since I was there, but--as beautiful as it is--it was not some hideaway for the very wealthy. I stayed with a family whose water came from a well in the backyard.

I love this area of the country and I shudder to contemplate what might happen if this region begins to run out of water. Here in AZ we face similar issues, but not this dire, yet at least.

[SparkyMac]

27. Nope. Cobb is Marietta. 20 miles north of Atlanta. n/t

[Mike03]

30. Thank you, wasn't sure

My ex-girlfriend lived in Fayetteville, but I could never remember the county.

GA is beautiful. I sometimes think about moving there.

[Chulanowa]

28. It's the lawn

I remember a drought years back - '86 or so, in northern Alabama. I was only like, six, but the memory is pretty clear. Everyone's lawn was brown. The grass would cut into your feet and stay there. Hell, the cops would patrol just to cite people running sprinkler systems, at least in our neck of Huntsville.

Grass (the yard kind, not the basement kind) is the biggest waste of water humanity has devised. You hear a lot about conserving water with your toilet, well, people should be more worried about the showers they give their lawns. A sprinkler doesn't look like much water, but can go through over a hundred gallons of the stuff very quickly All so you can have green crap in front of your house that probably shouldn't be there anyway. I've always been in favor of using lawns as a garden, or even better, letting native plants grow.

When you see pictures like this, of a large manse with lush big lawns in the middle of a drought... or when you fly over New Mexico or southern Nevada and see big green patches where there's a well-watered golf course... you know who's to blame for the water shortage.

[supernova]

29. Hey Math whizzes: Versailles Palace

Just for fun I looked up the water useage at Versailles. They report that with all the water features turned on, the palace gardens go through abut 3600 cubic meters of water/hour.

What percentage of Versailles' usage does this nut take up?

My thinking is oddly, that for it's size, Versailles (the most wasteful palace in Europe) is more efficient, but I could be wrong.

edit for Versaille stats: http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/331_A_Few_Figures.php

[DS1]

56. ooof

that's 951,019 per hour :rofl:

and :nuke:

[Greyskye]

34. that's a lot of leaky faucets!

Let's send 'em some washers to fix those leaks!

[leftchick]

35. 20,000 square feet!

http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=14282458

sick fucks!

[supernova]

36. Wonder why they

cut off the other 50 ft and didn't make it an even 20K?

Short kitchen? Somebody got short sheeted on a bedroom?

[struggle4progress]

41. So it's barely enough water to fill all the rooms three feet deep every month.

[spotbird]

51. That's the problem,

they want to be waist deep in scarce water.

[momster]

39. Big Pool

Do you suppose they empty it and refill after every use?

[Zorra]

42. Charge them $10 for every gallon of water after they use a monthly allotment

of 5,000 gallons.

That'll cure the wasteful little piggies.

[spotbird]

48. Money doesn't mean anything to

this guy. Sell him 5000, and let him truck the rest in.

[mikelgb]

43. this is grossly exsessive but

I wouldn't want the media or even you guys to go digging into my water usage

[spotbird]

47. If I use 60x normal

consumption, during a drought, come get me.

[Codeine]

54. Why?

Water is part of the "commons." We all need it, there's a finite supply, and it behooves us not to let it be wasted.

[DS1]

55. There's a certain point where the medie should dig into your water usage

this is it

[kurth]

45. Shut it off

[morningglory]

46. I bet they are sweet, generous liberals who are dumping all that water into

the Chattahoochee River for the mussels downstream. Just trying to help, see.

[spotbird]

50. Lots of librls'

contributed $4,000 to GWB in '04- to save the snails.

You are definitely onto something with your insight here.

[riverdeep]

49. When American individualism

meets hard reality. "I can do anything I want, and you can't stop me!" Kind of the core Republican mantra. The villagers may need to make a visit with the proverbial pitchforks.

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[lonestarnot]

57. So shut their fucking water off! WTF easy.

[cutlassmama]

58. They don't even have a "lawn"

just some trees. I'm wondering if they aren't making beer and wine in there. That would take a lot of water. His father's business was beer and wine making.

[spotbird]

59. He wouldn't be a residential

consumer then, who knows.

[Katherine Brengle]

60. If they had a business, wouldn't they just inform the city or whatever so that this

wouldn't be an issue?

[spotbird]

61. The neighborhood doesn't look like

it is zoned commercial.