Friday, May 29, 2009

North Ridgeville installs state-of-art water monitor system

May 29, 2009

NORTH RIDGEVILLE — The city is about to install high-tech water meters that will alert residents to leaks before they rack up weeks of big water bills. North Ridgeville is spending nearly half a million dollars to install the system and is the first city in Lorain County to have the latest water meter reading technology.

Currently, if a home develops a water leak, the residents won’t know until getting next month’s water bill, Mayor David Gillock said. By then, they’ve already been charged another three weeks or so on top of the bill they already received. The new meters will be wirelessly connected to a computer at City Hall...