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The threat to turn off the taps of Atlanta Watershed customers for unpaid bills has lead to a waterfall of payments to the city. How much the city has cooperated so far.

ATLANTA - What is bringing so many customers to city hall? Delinquent customers recently saw their taps get cut. And it is happening for the first time in thirteen years. 

The enforcement action started in February. Revenue is running $20 million ahead for the same period one year ago. 

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379 homeowners got a visit from water department employees who placed a clamp on their valves. 

To get the water turned back on, those customers had to show up and pay in full or make a partial payment. 

"It was time, past time to do this," said Mikita Browning, the commissioner of watershed management. 

The city has not as yet taken the same action against multifamily customers, rentals and condo complexes, that have fallen behind.