There's outrage in St. Petersburg for one woman who says her last two water bills totaled nearly $3,000. Now, Patty Strader is worried the city won't budge after she says she proved there's no way her one-bathroom home in Disston Heights could've leaked that much water. “This bill is $2,099.85,” she says while showing 10 Tampa Bay her latest bill. “Usage of 64,800 gallons of water. It’s just crazy to me that it's on us to prove something when this is what their business is." When she got the bill she immediately got to work to prove she didn't use that much water, hiring two plumbers and a leak detection company, who all said there was no leak. “This is crazy,” she says. “I mean, 64,000—almost 65,000 gallons of water.” To put that into perspective, a large family swimming pool can hold about 30,000 gallons of water. The city says somehow Strader used enough water to fill more than two of these swimming pools in a month. According to the EPA, a typical water leak could fill one pool, but it would take a year. And it's not an uncommon headache for people in St. Pete, with many responding with similar stories on Strader’s post on NextDoor. Five years ago we profiled an 80-year-old veteran who got a similar bill at nearly three thousand dollars. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/st-pete-water-bills-3000/67-d28afed6-ff86-4b5b-b756-e709445e215c