In our county, getting tapped in ordinarily doesn't happen unless property is annexed into the city.

Well have 3 wells and irrigate from snow melt from the mountains.

There is a silly thing called "Service Areas".

They do not always align with political boundaries.

Have municipal water one mile out of the city at one place, average bill $16 a month for 2000 gallons (hookup fee plus $1.77 per 1000 gal). At another place have the towns water tank at the top of my property, the closest ‘city’ is 18 miles away, and just connection fee is $45 a month.

Lots of places rely on a municipal or co-op water system, especially in north central Arkansas.

Apparently this is common in KY. I guess they fucked up the ground water mining and drilling for oil?

My in-laws bought a place not too far from Campbellsville KY.


Not common in Oregon.  Drill a well.60 feet or 600 feet it's on you.

I do.

City water but on a septic.

Growing up I had well water but public sewer.

Same.  I live in a small neighborhood surrounded by lakes and farms.

County/COOP water yes if that is what you mean by city.  We have COOP water and a well.

Where I live, you have to have a well for water, that is the only option. Some large farming areas have collectively paid for water infrastructure from the county to assist with watering crops because residential wells are not capable of producing the amount of water needed.

Yes.
It's all in the zoning.

Private well, private septic, propane.  But we do have cable

probably yes

You have PUD and I have SUD - Special Utility District.  
I live just outside of the city but its considered unincorporated county land.

I think you'd be surprised how interconnected water lines can be in certain areas.

Splice into neighbors water line and keep thy mouth shut?

When we were looking for a house, I told my wife my only requirement is I have to be able to shoot claybirds off the back porch naked.

Not that I would but it means the house has both enough space and privacy.

you've never been to a rural town that has it's own water and sewage treatment facility?

most rural towns do

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That's not strange at all, location depending

Basically, the county and the city have municipal water services. The city just charges more for theirs. Something like that.

I guess you’ll really shit when you find out there’s rural water systems they are t attached to any municipality

Well water here. Our city water is terrible.

I live in a city and it's illegal to drive a well for personal use. IMO, watering my lawn, filling the pool, washing the car, should not require anyone to pay the city for that pleasure.

We are fairly rural and have city water.  I talked them into running NG to our street too.

Same as we had growing up. On a few acres miles from a grocery store or “town”. People had cows and horses, seems rural enough to me.

That sounds just like my TN water district.

I live on 36 acres in Kentucky. I am 22 minutes on the road from the "City" my address is in.

I have county water, and septic.

We are fairly rural and have city water.  I talked them into running NG to our street too.

We are in a similar situation, we live in an unincorporated part of the county. Our "city" consists of a small post office and the remnants of a long-closed country store. Wells take 12-24 months to get and start at $10k, everyone in my area are on our Utility District's water supply. To explain how rural, I can pee anywhere in my yard, shoot guns anytime and I can literally build a Hobo Camp with a 4 story tower and water park in my yard without even the hint of a permit.

One of the neighboring townships ran water to their residents (no septic.)  I get the impression one of the main reasons is there are out of town folk interested in buying property for vacation homes, and some of the lots were never developed in the past due to well drilling issues.  Farm land is being divided into multiple housing plots.

Yes.

My hometown, which is in another county, ran water lines from town, to the interstate so that the truck stops and Wendy's could get water. The interstate is 9 miles from town, and 5 miles deep into another county. The houses along the way were offered the ability to hook up to city water. Most did, which is fine by me. I'm on well water, and I'm the only house on the aquifer I'm on, which wasn't discovered until the 1980s when we re-drilled the well. . Everyone else on well water is on another, shallower well. Anyway, yeah, it does happen.

Pretty sure I know of a city that took over a local water system in its county supplying residences not in the city limits. Also, I think I know of a city that annexed the roads right of ways and ran water and sewer down them so when you tied on you had to sign an annexation agreement. The attachment to the right of way made the properties contiguous with the city.

When I lived in Richland County I had City of Columbia water.  Sewage was a private company.
City water was run by the democrats that hired democrats, so you can imagine how fucked up it is. Summertime during the dry season I was paying $350 a month to water my lawn.  

Sewage was bought out by a bigger company and overnight they doubled the rates. $720 a year for sewage.  I can pump my septic tank now twice a year and still pay less.  
I now have county water service. If I water here all day in the dry season my monthly bill tops out at $45. Normally $30 a month.

Depends on the State.

I don't know about other States, but in GA the City has a known service delivery area for water, sewer, emergency services, etc...  A City's service area can and many times extends beyond the City limits.  The City may provide water, but not sewer, etc..  It also depends on the cost of the infrastructure to how far out a City is willing to claim to provide services.  A City's service area can be extended by signing a strategy with other providers in their respective county (including the county if the county is a provider).  This in place to prevent duplication of services and clearly establish where the line of responsibility lies.

I'm very rural and have my own well. About a decade ago community water was finally established and I have it as well. Took them at least 20 years to get it up and running. I can turn off the local well or the community water. Either way I'm good to go. To get actual "city" water I'd have to move 50 miles or more. Septic you are own your own. I like having opitons. Sometimes get the after affects of hurricanes and sometimes just bad storms. So many trees here lots of down trees cause a lot of power outages. I have a whole house generator, gas and electric heating and a wood burning insert in the fireplace. Went two weeks without power due to a straight line wind storm that blew down tons of trees locally including the national forest enough that it depressed the timber market for a while. I know the guy down the road spent decades working to get community water put in and it was a huge pain in the ass to get it going.

My ranch is 12 miles from the nearest small city, and 5 miles from the tiny town I currently live in.  The county water supply down the county road to 2 hills past me and put in a small water tower (no need for height since it is the tallest hill around.  I suspect they ran the line another mile to the county line, not sure if they continued it past that - it is 3 more miles till my towns water lines would take over.  They ran branches of that main water line down gravel roads.  

While I am in the process of building on my ranch, I can not get another tap into the main water line - it is at capacity...  Which is annoying as hell, as I already have a tap one hill over that I have kept for decades for backup livestock water.  Years go by that I don't take any water from that tap - but it would be a royal pain in the ass to run a private water line from it to my build location (3/8 mile, plus a drop and eventual rise to a higher elevation).  I would need to put in a small cistern and a booster pump before it was over.  Honestly, it would be easy enough just to put in a small cistern near my house, and use a water tote in case of emergencies (and drill another well by the house - as my existing well near the county water tap is not high enough capacity to feed my livestock and a house.


We can get private rural trash pickup - but will be on our own for septic.  I am planning on grid tied solar, probably with a backup generator - but will add enough batteries that I hope most days I will not need to use public power or the generator.  The issue with the solar is simple enough.  In the event of a storm - I am far enough down the wire it might be days before the electricity gets back up.  I had a friend go without power for 3 months.  He was closer to the Gulf, but only 2 or 3 miles outside of a major metro town.  3 miles is a long way when you are at the end of the line for repair service.

If I had to have city water, I'm living too close to the city. City water is screwed up too easily. Have y'all forgotten the nightmare unleashed by the Flint, MI water system?

I have a well with near-perfect water. I can't say that for the city system.

I'm 10 miles out. They would have to strike oil or gold to even think of running a system out here.

A well can be designed to meet your specific needs in regards to quantity and quality of water. Installed on your property, a well can provide adequate amounts of safe drinking water and operate on pennies per day. The pump, tank, and casing should last for many years. When the well is paid for, it will belong to you. That means you are in control of it, since your well is a small, closed system, problems can easily be diagnosed and treated. Always remember this is your well and your water. You control what happens to them and goes
in them.

Public water systems are expensive to build and maintain. Water bills come forever, and consumers have no control over the rates. And since consumers don’t own the water, they don’t have control over its contents. Public systems have to meet established standards, and report those to you. But their water can include additives you may not want to drink. If pipelines are especially long in order to reach the areas and water usage happens to be low, water can become stale. A more serious problem can occur when chlorinated water meshes with organic materials to form gases called trihalomethanes.

Check your water supply here: https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/

https://ordspub.epa.gov/ords/safewater/f

City water means not having to screw around with a well. Bung fuck Iowa has connections to county water  that I wished for when lived there.

We have sewer, not septic... But have wells at the lake cabin

Having a well dug 200ft from a lake us not hard  

Once everyone agreed to sewer, in about 20-30 years everyone's wells tested negative for "stuff" .

Where I am as well. County provides water, but not sewer.

Yes but generally it's county water


City I work for has hundreds and hundreds of miles of pipe that goes out into three counties and some rural farm areas

LOL

OK, maybe we need to add some more qualifiers here.