A couple in Port Byron, New York, had been trying for five years to get the water authority for Cayuga County to mail a water bill to them. When they finally got it, the got a huge shock at the total - $1,968. Others say the couple is not alone in getting monstrous bills after years of the county not billing customers properly.

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