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Albany council exempts purchase of automatic water meters from competitive bidding; $6.3 million plan approved
Summary
The Albany City Council approved a resolution exempting competitive bidding to buy and install an automatic metering infrastructure system for the city's water meters. Staff said the $6.3 million, five-year program will improve leak detection and billing accuracy; Millersburg would reimburse about $370,000.
The Albany City Council on Wednesday approved a resolution exempting the purchase and installation of automatic metering infrastructure, or AMI, for the city's water system, a project staff said will cost roughly $6.3 million over five years.
City water operations manager Scott LaRocque told the council the system would move the city from once-a-month manual meter reads to near-real-time reads. The AMI meters, LaRocque said, allow earlier detection of customer-side leaks and provide better data to measure system water loss.
LaRocque said Albany has been installing AMI-ready Sensus iPerl meters for more than a decade, but those units require an additional transmitter and can be large enough that older meter boxes must be replaced. He recommended switching to smaller Camstrup meters, which he said fit older boxes, include built-in transmit capability and include per-meter leak detection that helps locate leaks on mains.
The council heard details and examples from…
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