It’s been more than half a year since Toni Legrand says she first found herself riding a wave of water bills.

The North Side homeowner said she noticed the fluctuation in her monthly bill from the San Antonio Water System soon after the utility installed a new type of meter in her front yard.

“$30 bills for four or five months until they came and put the meter in,” Legrand said. “I just don’t get it. I don’t understand how you can be up and down.”

Legrand said her usual bills of roughly $30 initially swelled upwards of $100, then went down, then up again to more than ten times the original amount —around $300 — in September.

“Now, here comes the doozer,” she said, holding up a paper bill. “This is my October bill for $379.”

Although she was surprised by the amount, she said she dutifu

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