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1,600 City of Magee residential water customers are receiving automated water meters. The present Board of Aldermen has promoted this cost saving change for 3 years. The change from regular to automatic reader meters will come as a saving to the City as well as the customer. Hopefully, the automation will eliminate the re-reading of meters.
Automatic water meters (AMR) are planned for the city. These meters automatically collect consumption, diagnostic, and statue data from the water meter and transfers that date to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and analyzing. These meter will allow real-time consumption rather than estimates on predicted consumption. Although the change is costly, the saving to the city in correct usage of water will help in offsetting the difference. (from MageeNews.com January 31, 2024 article)
VanGuard Utility Service is contracted for the installation.
Blaze, one of Van Guard’s employees, agreed to talk with me and allow filming of the instantiation of a new meter.
Check out the video. Blaze gave some great tips and info concerning your meters.
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Old water meter. According to Blaze the old meters are kept for a period of time in case there are any problems with the last reading.
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