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That is unreal, kind of out of proportion, now wouldn't you just love to see the "back-up" behind those numbers, I would inist upon that information, it's public information. I would want to see what exactly substantiates those fees and why it's justified, is there some legitimate reason making it so, or is there some fluff or padding in there. I've done miles of ductile iron watermain, quite a bit as an equipment operator, but later on in my career, bought out the work through contractors,as a project manager on the numerous building projects I've worked on, most of which were in NYC and I don't recall there being such high costs to make a connection, although you were running 1000' here, sure sounds high. Scale it back a bit, the town had a main put in 100 yards to one side of the state road, so only that side can get a lateral, we have no access on our side, ( real smart right? )neighbor wanted to upgrade from the well and make a connection, for a 3/4" or 1" line to connect at the curb stop which was installed when the main was put in. I had a cat 420 hoe for about 6 weeks and said to my neighbor, now is the time if you want to do it, measured it out, copper ( only thing that is allowed ) for 200 feet was $1000 or so from the supply house, meter from the town was $200, misc. supplies, fuel, bedding sand,forget what the total was, but it was over $2000 at a price I would call bare cost, hoe was a given, -fuel ( savings there ! ) a contractor would tack on another $2000-$3000 easily, he's retired, money is tight, so I think even at cost he could not afford it, we tried a few different things to see if we could help, ( good friends with his son ) no go, it's only going to go up the longer you wait which is not good, and even at cost things are expensive. I laugh, what good is the main, if people can't afford to make the connection ?
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