City Meter, Inc.

Utility metering provides direct economic motivation and rewards customers who conserve utility resources. Gas, electricity and water have all been metered for decades. Sewer metering has not been practically available prior to City Meter. Sewer utilities have used the billing assumption that water and sewer usage are equal. This assumption may be false for a variety of reasons. Consider the following:

Do you:

• Operate a business which uses water in preparation of a product that is sold but not returned to the sewer (i.e., liquid products, beverage bottling, food packing, ice, restaurant, car dealerships, etc)?
• Operate a business which uses water to cool industrial and commercial processes or where the water is evaporated and not returned to sewer (i.e., carwash, chemical plant, paper mill, saw mill, steel mill, foundry, facilities using evaporative cooling towers, etc)?
• Irrigate gardens and lawns?
• Fill swimming pools?
• Wash cars?

If you are in one of the above categories you could be paying too much for your sewer service. City Meter can provide accurate sewer flow measurement.

Do you service sewer utility customers who:

• Have old, faulty or damaged sewer plumbing lines?
• Have illegal connections of gutters, downspouts, foundation sump pumps or private wells?

Sewer utility customers in these two categories above could be paying too little for their sewer service. In fact, these customers are returning more sewer flow than water metered/billed, resulting in:

• Sewer utilities having to increase collection system and treatment plant capacity to handle the high flows caused by inflow and infiltration
• All sewer system customers paying increased sewer service rates to cover the cost of the problem created by a few unsuspecting or uncaring customers. 

"Pay for what you use" metered sewer service billing with City Meter lowers sewer service costs by promoting conservation of sewer system resources. By conserving and reclaiming existing sewer system resources, many sewer system upgrades become unnecessary, saving the sewer utility and its customers millions of dollars in the process.

After all, paying for what you use is fair.

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Why choose City Meter's sewer meter to measure your wastewater flows?

City Meter's sewer meter is the only "Sewer Service Meter":

• Measures sewer flows from 0 to 10 gallons per minute with an accuracy of +/- 2%. Measurable flow range from 0 to 15 gallon per minute (+/- 4%)
• Measures partially filled sewer pipe flows. Does not require full pipe flows
• Requires no external power and no battery changes for over 20 years

The "Sewer Service Meter" Challenge:  Be the first to tell us of a commercially available wastewater flow meter capable of meeting or exceeding all three of the above criteria and we will pay you $250.

No other flow metering technology can meet the City Meter "Sewer Service Meter" criteria.

"Sewer Service Meter" Challenge - Terms and Conditions

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Sewer Service Meter Protected By U.S. Patent No. 7,181,964 B2, U.S. Patent No. 7,313,955 B2. Other Patent(s) Pending.