Girard fails to reach meter-reading goal

GIRARD — Water meter readers here didn’t come close to visiting every meter in every home in the city, but officials say the effort still may be worthy of repeating in the future.

The city, earlier this summer, started a meter-reading campaign with the goal to read as many meters in the city as possible — every meter if possible. Water meters had not been read in five years.

Jerry Lambert, safety services director, said city officials understood from the beginning of the process that reading every meter was somewhat of a lofty goal. He said officials figured reading 25 percent of the actual meters in the city would be more realistic, and that is pretty close to what was done.

Meter readers read about 24 percent of the meters in the city. Lambert said they will be making a second effort at various locations to see if more can be read this summer.

“They are going back to some of the ones they missed and trying to get some of those readings, and re-reading some of the ones we think might be in error to make sure we have the right readings,” said Lambert.

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