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Springfield service director says city at middle of multi-year water meter upgrade
Summary
Service Director Chris Moore told the Springfield City Commission the city is mid-way through a multi-year program to replace aging water meters with advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) to detect leaks, track nonrevenue water, and collect service-line material information for regulatory reporting.
Service Director Chris Moore told the Springfield City Commission during a work session that the city has reached a midpoint in a multi-year effort to replace aging residential and commercial water meters with advanced metering infrastructure.
“We're here, kind of celebrating the halfway point of our water meter upgrade,” Moore said, describing a program launched two years ago. He said the meters were “30 plus years old” and failing at a high rate, motivating the replacement effort.
Moore said the new meters send data through neighborhood repeaters to a base station on the city’s water tower and into a central database. Readings are transmitted twice daily—at 1 a.m. and 1 p.m.—and the system can send leak, freeze and dry-pipe…
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