Municipality bill

We bought houses through mining may years go, then we started having issues with our municipality bill, be engaged them and the mine, and requested prepaid meters, this battle took years eventually the mine decided to settle the bill so that we can start from scratch, but the municipality did not communicate this with us nor sent us the bills, to say the mine settled the bill and this is the balance, they just handed us over, and the next thing I receive the bill from the lawyers which keeps on accumulating every month. I want to know what was the balance after the mine settled the bill, because we have the prepaid water now. I will settle what was the balance, which was my argument, to say you were suppose to communicate this earlier as you are now, is not fair.