Read any good meters lately?
If you want to do your part to help conserve our natural resources and, you want
to save money. Monitor your water use by reading your meter and help preserve the environment while you
save money.
Here's how to read your water meter:
Your meter is located either in your basement or outside. To access outside meters,
simply remove the meter box cover.
There are two common types of water meters:
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Some are read like
odometers
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Others are circular
with several dials on the face.
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For circular-reading meters, start with the lowest dial, in this case marked
10, and continue reading up to the highest dial.
If a dial pointer isn't centered exactly on a number or is
located between two numbers, read the lower number. This dial reads 987498. For example, if the above
meter measured in gallons, one complete (360 degrees) revolution of the pointer on the "10" dial would
indicate 10 gallons of water used. If the pointer on the 10 dial moved from "8" to "9",
only one gallon was used.
Meters record in either gallons, or cubic feet. If you can't find which unit
of measure is used on your meter, check your water bill or call the Rogers Water Utilities.
Meters are not usually reset between readings. To find out how much water
you've used in any given period, just subtract the reading on your last bill from the current reading. You can
also get your last reading from our accounts section on this site.
| One cubic foot equals about 7.5 gallons. If your meter is marked in
cubic feet and reads 987,498 cubic feet today and 987,678 cubic feet seven days later, you've used 180 cubic
feet of water. Multiply 180 by 7.5 to find the number of gallons of water used during the week (1,350).
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