Reading the snazzy new water meters

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Anyone know how to read the new water meters the city is requiring?

Our household just got the new meter (after a series of increasingly aggravating postcards came our way, insisting we get it taken care RIGHT NOW OMG IT IS !!!URGENT!!!), and there's nothing on the damn thing that displays how much water has actually been used (the old one did). You'd think that given the city's fairly recent history of inaccurate water meter billing, they'd make it easy for people to tell when they were being billed incorrectly.

According to the city's website, "The state-of-the-art water meters will allow for more accurate billing and easy water usage monitoring by both the City and property owners." But, um, that suggests there's actually a display ON THE METER, right?

Comments

[docorion.livejournal.com]

Well, some of the urgency is likely that they're required by *state* law to replace the water meter every N years, where I believe N=10 or so. That said, the last one I saw installed (this was in Quincy, when I was living there) still had the little dial thingies to read it, as well as the bulky wireless box dealio.

Much as I hate to suggest it-call 311?

311

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Yeah - or the water department; I think we were hoping we could just avoid dealing with the bureaucrats. And we may need not do that; I found a cryptic note this morning about the meter, so maybe my housemate has figured out a way to read it after all.