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DENISON, Iowa — The days of Denison Municipal Utilities employees walking door to door to check water usage may be ending.
This week, the utilities board voted to hire Dakota Supply Group from Burnsville, Minn., to purchase remote-read water meters and transmitters for the city.
The meters will cost $458,000, and the transmitters will cost $10,000. The project, including installation, is budgeted at $597,380.
The utility hopes to have the meters transmit in a three- to four-block radius. Several collection places for reading the meters will be set up throughout the city. The plan is to eventually transmit data directly to the utility office, though that would not happen for another four to five years.
The new meters should be installed by July 2011.
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