Be sure that no one is using water inside the house when checking meter. If numbers do not appear, you may have to open & close the gray case to wake the meter up.
Appointments can be booked between 7:30am and 2pm, Monday through Friday. Sensus Meter-If you have a possible leak then the numbers after the decimal will be moving. When it is time to change meters in your sector you will be sent a letter or we will leave a door hanger at your house asking you to call the office to schedule an appointment. That means the time saved reading meters manually can be re-allocated to addressing other issues. Meters from one sector will now be read in a day or two instead of weeks. This process will make meter reading much more efficient. This new meter will transmit the readings to a receiver in one of our DPW vehicles as he drives by. With the new water meter replacement program we are installing Neptune radio read meters. Sometimes the outside reader may not reflect the same usage as the actual meter so we get an inaccurate reading. So essentially we have to dedicate one employee per month just to read meters. Unlike most vehicles that have an odometer that records guided miles on the engine, tractors have a meter of hours. This process takes about 3 weeks to read all 700 meters per sector. tractor image of andrew breeden from when a tractor is on sale, the most sought after stat about the tractor is the hours on the engine. The DPW has divided the town in 6 sectors and one sector is read every month. The employee who reads the meter must walk up to each house and touch the outside reader with a pre-programmed reading gun to get the reading. The new meter program will provide better accuracy and efficiency for billing and resident concerns.Ĭurrently we use a sensus meter with a wire connected to an outside touch-pad reader on most residences. This program is designed to replace all 4,200+ meters in the town within 5 years. Beginning in the fall of 2016 the DPW’s Water division began a town-wide meter replacement program.
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