CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – While owning their home on Autumn Drive for close to 20 years, Joshua Cummings and his family have routinely paid $50 to $60 per month toward their Clarksville Gas & Water bill.
So it came as a surprise when they recently opened a bill for $1,000. “The first thing that my mother said was, ‘OK, there’s no way we should ever receive a bill that high,’” Cummings said.
He called Clarksville Gas & Water. “I tried to talk to them; I tried to find out what was going on because we moved into our property on Autumn Drive in like January 2006. We’re 19, creeping up on 20 years in this house, and our water bill has never been that high. I tried to express that to them, and they kept telling me, ‘No, it’s your responsibility to pay this bill.’”
Cummings said his family has been lost on what is causing the drastic increase in their bill, because they do not own a pool, nor are they building Noah’s Ark. With all of this in mind, the family said if they were to pay the $1,000 bill, which is due on Wednesday, Nov. 5, they wouldn’t have the funds for their mortgage…