Badger Meter’s E-Series® Ultrasonic meter.
“A few months ago, I saw that one of the vacation homes in our system had a considerable leak. I was able to alert the customer, who lives in Little Rock full time, almost immediately,” said Kent Latch, the utility’s general manager. “I stopped by her vacation home the same day, and I found and stopped the leak in a matter of minutes.”
The Heber Springs utility team was also able to find a 283-gallon-per-hour leak at one of the city’s baseball fields — a major source of non-revenue water loss for the utility. After identifying the leak using the BEACON AMA managed solution, the Heber Springs team quickly fixed the problem.
“Our water loss has dropped pretty substantially,” added Paul Graham, assistant manager of the utility. “Currently, we have reduced our water loss between four and eight percent. We still have a number of meters to install, so this isn’t even a complete indicator of the system’s full capability.”
Heber Springs has also installed Badger Meter’s polymer E-Series Ultrasonic meters, which monitor consumption and rate of flow, and provide reverse-flow indications and alarms. With no moving parts, they last longer and are more accurate than mechanical meters, and are especially suited for metering low flows.