HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.P. Herald 03/25/1915-- fpUNG~IL~ADOPT~
:, • ` METER SYSTEM
The.Meepng Monday NighGwas Well, l
) Attended by Taxpayers anA
„ Water Consumers.
_- ~ At the rusat(ng of the city council
teat adpndey night, a terge number of t
water ¢oneumera Bnd tax payers were n
evidence, the queat)lon of water me-
tern having apparently stirred up the d
' whole community. After the• meeting s
~hqd bean called to order, the meysr.ex-`6
pleined the necessity for meters, end
- showed the'eerious condition the city i k
hetl bean.pleced in many Elmer during h
the pent yeas for water Por flee pro- 7
. tection, end that It waa absolutely R
nbceeeery to remedy each usndit(one. I E
W. C.~Leever, R. H. Corneliue, E_L. tl
Farm and others ail voiced their aenti-I N
manta in favor of the meter eyetom, o
The aounell itself k-ae unm,imoualy in~o
favor o[ metara, and the only question p
' k4at troubled that body was how to tl
procure th¢ meters. Could the city,
without any money, buy theme Orie~
_ wou d ~tha coneums na __,for -thamv_;.g
Abe majority of the speakers aermed I h
lu be of the opinion thaCit would be en 1 b
- Ihjuetlca to the poor man to have to w
pay nioe dollere for a meter in addition ~ f,
to paying (or the water, and when the
mayor celled fora vote feoro the as- ~ G
eeinbly on the queetlon,it.wea the anon- la
imoua verdict thnt the city should try t.
to and soma roeena of paying for the ei
- metara. ~ ,Iv
R. H. Cornelius suggested that in k
many of the places where he had been t
located, the cities own the metara end ! v,
had made a charge of $g•60 for tho in- in
etelling of the same. In this way the a,
city Would gain a little aver the actual ul
coat of instellatimq vihich would ba ap- ~ ai
piled on the purchase price of the me~ d,
tern. This Itlea eeemed [o meet with m
the approval of the cvunctl, who finally
.concluded that with what could be ob-
talaed in this way, together with the ae
extra money [eat would come m from to
the use of the meters would go quite alh~
ways toward paying for the meters p~
thpmaelYee, end so it ,was voted m to
pdryheae 100 meters, provided the coon. le
cil could make setlefecmry arrange- n,
maple for the payment o[ thq same, T~
Dbe beat of feeling pravaaed among er
ell present, IC eYldhntly being the de- de
afro of everybody m old in. solving a tt
very vaxsti0ua queatlon. - bt
Alter the w~ncii voted to pucehusa tt
the meters, tyre ~6llowing. regulations
and rates were agreed upon. w.
80W TO OBTAIN'A LIETER
Anyone desiring water Por irrigation
must make applicstion fo the City Re- tr
corder to have o meter.inatailed, es per
fol{owing rates: H
Jnetailation of meter $g,¢0, meter to
or
RATER FOA WATER
$1.00 for fleet 3W10 gellona (minimum
x4te.)
g6 cents par 1000 gallons for- Iho next
`mW gallons.
30 cents per 1000 gellona for the next
• 16,000 gellona.
26 cents per 1000 gellona for all over
ram renme [net water can be
' furhlehe for the whole season or any
' pert of the 66aeon.
' These rates will he tried' out fox of
thirty days, and if-.they don't prove F.
C.P. Herald ~ .'],,,5 ~ ( ~, ~ O ( fair and equitable will he changed. of
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