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Determination of Economic Period for Water Meter Replacement: California Section Committee Report
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1966.tb01625.x
Subject(s) - metre , revenue , government (linguistics) , service (business) , section (typography) , business , period (music) , consumption (sociology) , operations management , economics , operations research , engineering , finance , marketing , advertising , linguistics , philosophy , physics , astronomy , social science , sociology , acoustics
In March 1960, the Business Management Division of the AWWA California Section appointed a seven‐member committee, representing four investor‐ owned utilities and three government‐ owned utilities to determine the feasibility of recommending uniform methods and procedures for determining the economic period to leave a meter in service. Study conclusions indicate that: flow patterns through the small domestic meters indicate relatively small customer usage in the low and high rates, with the bulk of consumption at the so‐called normal rate; no definite or specific time can be prescribed for keeping a meter in service; and, application of flow distribution to meter accuracy before and after repair to determine revenue dollars lost over a period of years is a reasonable approach in attempting to determine the economic meter‐removal period.