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Diva Celine Dion: I’m no water hog!

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| Wednesday 25 June 2008 11:31 am Print This Post

She may be touring Europe, but Celine Dion’s mind at times has been on her Jupiter Island homestead.

So much so that her staff just provided Page 2.1 with a spread sheet showing her property’s water usage to prove she didn’t become the area’s heaviest potable water user during a drought by choice.

dion150.jpgHer people tell Page 2.1 that the diva took umbrage with a recent story in The Palm Beach Post that branded her a water hog.

The article ranked Martin County’s heaviest water consumers between April 2007 and March 2008, as water throughout South Florida became scarce. What’s more, Dion and her tribe weren’t even living at the beachside property. Construction is still on-going.

According to South Martin Regional Utility stats obtained by the paper, more than 6.5 million gallons of the precious liquid flowed through her property. That’s 250 times more that the average homeowner.

La Dion plunked down a whopping total $36,343.13 for water during that period.

“Except for a few new trees that need heavy watering, barely any landscaping was done during that time,” said the Canadian star’s local lawyer, Michael Weeks. “Something went wrong.”

It did.

A water main underneath the $12.5 million property was broken by heavy equipment in May 2007 when crews demolished the existing home.

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But it was weeks until someone at Renlec, the Montreal-based company owned by Dion and hubby Rene Angelil, discovered that the 5.7-acre property’s consumption tripled to 1.6 million gallons in July 2007, a $8,986 bill.

“Once the underground pipe was located and repaired, water usage subsided back to normal levels,” said Weeks. “By January 2008, the property was using an amount of water that I would expect to be one of the lowest on Jupiter Island.”

In March, Dion paid a mere $216.75 for water.

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  1. Pingback by Celine Dion drills wells with enough flow to sink Titanic | Palm Beach & South Florida gossip & celebrity news | Jose Lambiet’s Page2Live.com — November 2, 2009 @ 11:21 am

    [...] the area suffered through one of the worst droughts ever, the Canadian songbird became the area’s heaviest user of drinking water. About 6.5 million gallons flowed through her Jupiter Island property. Cost the singer of My Heart [...]

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