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Article: Meter readers get high-tech help.
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- High Point Enterprise
- Article date:
- November 29, 2006
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Byline: Nick G. Maheras
Nov. 29--HIGH POINT -- Meter reading of the future is coming to High Point. For the past three years, the city has been converting to a new electric residential meter that contains small transmitting devices. They send radio signals to a handheld device up to 1,100 feet away.
About 19,000 of the estimated 33,000 residential meters in the city have been converted so far.
Warren Larson, customer service department director, estimates it will take another two or three years to finish the conversion -- depending on whether money for the program continues to be budgeted.
In fiscal 2003-04, the city appropriated ...