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Town gets rid of unused water meters

After a year of avoiding the unpopular issue of individual meters for the apartment building on North Little Horn Avenue, the council has chosen to remove the six meters that had been set in place to eventually be plumbed into the building waterline, adding to the existing six to cover each unit. Currently, the town is unable to shut off an individual apartment as each meter serves two.

The meters have not, as yet, been activated and have sat within the pits for almost a year. Because this work had not been completed, Public Works was unable to lay permanent covers over the pits, leaving the e...