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Council introduces $250,000 measure for on-demand water meters after staff brief on 2,600 unread meters
Summary
Bossier City council introduced an ordinance allocating $250,000 from the water capital and contingency fund to buy on-demand water meters and discussed a broader multi-million-dollar replacement plan for roughly 2,600 meters that are not read reliably.
The Bossier City Council on July 29 introduced (first reading) an ordinance to allocate $250,000 from the Water Capital and Contingency Fund to purchase on-demand water meters, after staff briefed the council on degraded meter-read capability across the system and options to replace aging equipment.
Council discussion centered on the size of the problem, cost estimates and payback. Staff said about 2,600 meters are not reading and that replacing those meters citywide would cost in the multimillion-dollar range. Staff cited a planning estimate of roughly…
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