The City of Leoti has completed a Smart Water Meter Installation project to upgrade their metering infrastructure with smart meters.
What are Smart Water Meters and how do they work? Smart Water Meters collect water use information just as a manually read meter does. The fundamental advantage is they read every hour and transmit those reads wirelessly to the City of Leoti via base station. City of Leoti employees no longer need to visit homes and businesses to manually record information every month.
Why is there a plastic disk in my water meter lid? The smart meters transmit their data to the base station using an antenna which looks like a black plastic disk sitting on top of the meter lid. The antenna is waterproof and durable enough for someone to step on. These antenna have been damaged by lawnmowers and other customer activities.
The average installation cost for Sensus Meter is $1000-$6000 depending on the size and complexity of the project.
The fee to replace a damaged antenna ( black plastic disk ) will be $30.00 in addition to a $25.00 administrative fee billed to the customer, so please do be careful when operating equipment around them.
There will be no new rate increases or surcharges as a result of this project.
Contact City Hall with any questions 620-375-2489 or 620-375-4183.
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