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North Ridgeville staff outline yearlong water meter replacement, new app and EPA-required pipe check
Summary
City staff said North Ridgeville will replace residential and commercial water meters over roughly 12 months with UMS as contractor, offer the Ion Water app for daily usage and leak alerts, and comply with an EPA requirement to identify service-line piping materials.
North Ridgeville city staff described a plan to replace the city’s aging residential and commercial water meters and to roll out a customer app that will show daily usage and leak alerts, officials said during a presentation. The work will be led by contractor UMS and staff said they expect to complete the project in about 12 months, contingent on resident cooperation.
City staff said the replacement responds to failing meter-reading technology that has forced the utility to estimate customers’ bills and, in some cases, produce very large corrected bills when a delayed reading captured a leak. "We have failing technology, unfortunately, with our current system that reads our water usage on the residential and commercial side," said Staff member 1, a…
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