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Officials discuss replacing aging water meters with cellular system; rough cost estimate $700,000–$750,000
Summary
A village presenter outlined plans to replace aging drive-by water meters with a cellular automatic meter-reading system, citing failing meter 'heads,' leak detection benefits and a rough equipment and installation estimate of about $900,000–$950,000 before final bids and financing are set.
Speaker 2 told attendees the village’s current drive-by water-meter system is aging and increasingly producing unreadable 'heads,' forcing manual reads and estimated bills. "The batteries in the heads of those meters are traditionally good for about 10 years," Speaker 2 said, adding that dead meters are rising and replacement has become costly.
Speaker 2 described two meter-size groups — about 1,037 three-quarter-inch meters and about 101 one-inch meters — and compared lower-cost disc meters with a more expensive two-piece 'eSeries' option. "We're talking let's just round that off right now. We're talking half $1,000,000," Speaker 2 said when describing a rough overall figure. The presenter also…
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