Picked up a 42-washer laundromat in a mid-size municipal water district and the sewer line item is
just water consumption times a rate. No deduct meter, no evaporation allowance, nothing.
Between what stays in the goods, what goes out as steam off the dryers, and what the customers carry
out damp, a meaningful share of that water never reaches the sanitary sewer. On a coin laundry I
would put it somewhere in the 8 to 15 percent range depending on load mix, though I have not found a
published figure I trust.
Two questions for anyone who has done this. First, has your district ever granted a deduct meter for
a laundromat, or do they treat the whole thing as returning to the sewer regardless? Second, if they
did grant one, did they require an engineering study or just a licensed plumber installing a meter on
an approved bypass?
Client spends about 61k a year on water and sewer combined, so even 10 percent is real money going
forward. I am less interested in retroactive recovery here than in getting the meter installed and
the billing corrected prospectively.
just water consumption times a rate. No deduct meter, no evaporation allowance, nothing.
Between what stays in the goods, what goes out as steam off the dryers, and what the customers carry
out damp, a meaningful share of that water never reaches the sanitary sewer. On a coin laundry I
would put it somewhere in the 8 to 15 percent range depending on load mix, though I have not found a
published figure I trust.
Two questions for anyone who has done this. First, has your district ever granted a deduct meter for
a laundromat, or do they treat the whole thing as returning to the sewer regardless? Second, if they
did grant one, did they require an engineering study or just a licensed plumber installing a meter on
an approved bypass?
Client spends about 61k a year on water and sewer combined, so even 10 percent is real money going
forward. I am less interested in retroactive recovery here than in getting the meter installed and
the billing corrected prospectively.