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Show Metering or measuring water to all customers to be accomplished within five years. ( For purposes of this paragraph, residential buildings of more than four units may be considered as single customers.) Public Law 102- 575, Subsection 207( f)( 2)( A) Introduction Water in Utah is metered or measured in three principal sectors: municipal and industrial ( M& I), agricultural and secondary. Water Metering or Measurement in the Municipal/ Industrial Sector Background Municipal and industrial water systems include community- public, community- private and industrial systems. Water use within the M& I sector is typically not measured at individual water user meters. It is measured at master meters at source locations and/ or at reservoirs prior to water entering a water system. Status Community Systems - The state of Utah has 422 community systems, and metering information was obtained on all but 16 of the systems. Division of Drinking Water data indicate about 99 percent of Utah's population is metered, about 0.9 percent is not metered, and no metering related data could be obtained for about 0.1 percent. Hill Air Force Base, Dugway- English Village and Tooele Army Depot- North, U. S. military base systems in Davis and Tooele counties, are not individually metered. Unmetered connections at these military bases number about 3,150. Approximately 85 other systems within the state are unmetered ( representing less than 1 percent of all connections); most are small systems serving less than 200 people each. Some of the smaller systems that report metered connections do not have a regular meter reading program. Billings are based on a fixed periodic fee rather than on actual water usage. Five larger systems show a small percent of unmetered connections, mostly to city buildings and parks ( i. e. Clearfield, 5 percent; Roosevelt, 8 percent; American Fork, 5 percent; Spanish Fork, 2 percent; and Ogden, 1 percent). Industrial Systems - Industrial water use from community type water systems is generally metered. According to a Division of Drinking Water data base, 53 industries own water sources. Of these, 27 measure water use with a master meter or some other measuring device, 18 do not meter or |
