Posted September 18, 2007: The City of Ball Ground is approximately 80% complete with a program to convert existing water meters with radio-read water meters.

This project cost a total of $190, 000 and has upgraded the entire system for safety, back flow prevention compliance, and radio-read ability. The task of reading meters, which previously took four people four days to complete, can now be accomplished by one person in one day. By the time the project is complete, one person will be able to read all the meters in one-half of a day.

A tremendous benefit of the new system is that each month when readings are taken, the water meter will indicate if water has been used during every hour of every day in the preceding month. If this is the case, it will let the city know that the customer may have a water leak. The city can then notify the customer, resulting in savings to the customer and water conservation for the city.