Greeley is turning a massive meter replacement project into a water-conservation strategy.
Victoria Arling of WaterNow explains how the city used about $3.5 million in federal WaterSMART grants to help modernize nearly 27,000 water meters with advanced metering infrastructure, or AMI.
The new system gives customers near-real-time information about their water use and can flag leaks much sooner than older meter technology.
For the utility, the upgrade improves meter accuracy, reduces water losses, and cuts the time and labor required to collect readings.
Greeley estimates the broader meter modernization effort could save close to 3,000 acre-feet of water each year.
The federal funding also helped the city move faster on an expensive infrastructure upgrade that otherwise could have taken much longer or placed more pressure on customer rates.
For Arling, the larger lesson is that replacing aging infrastructure can do more than improve operations. It can also become a measurable conservation investment.
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