New Water Meters for Hervey Bay
One may appear in your front yard any day now
This is an AMR smart meter and Wide Bay Water is currently replacing 20,000 water meters across Hervey Bay with this new model.
This new meter collects comprehensive data on water collection not only within each home but within the city-wide system. The data these meters collect will enable Wide Bay Water to identify leakages and so reduce water wastage.
The new meters will also provide a cost saving in the labour costs involved in reading water meters each billing cycle. Instead of visually inspecting each water meter on each property the meter will now transmit data to a receiver carried by a vehicle passing the property or an employee walking down the footpath.
Funding for the project, whick is estimated to cost $5.4 million has come from the Federal Government, the Queensland Government and Wide Bay Water.
