Kathy Murphy of Liberty fills out a water-meter card in …

Photo by MADELYN P. HASTINGS | published: August 6, 2013

Kathy Murphy of Liberty fills out a water-meter card in her Red Oak Drive basement. The city of Girard is working to transfer its 5,600 water customers from analog, manual-read meters to new remote-read meters — but Murphy, who gets her water from the city, is opposed to the conversion, citing perceived health risks associated with the wireless meters.