LAUREL HILL — Now, if you want your water meter tested, it'll cost you.
Residents must pay a $100 deposit to have their water meter tested following the City Council's unanimous vote on Thursday.
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The deposit covers replacing the water meter and sending the old one to an authorized facility for testing its water flow accuracy.
The deposit is refundable if customers' water meter fails to meet American Water Works Association specifications.
Otherwise, it's non-refundable.
“We didn’t have anything (such as a resolution) charging them for that" before the vote, Mayor Robby Adams said.
The city previously covered the expense to have the meter replaced and shipped for testing.
But in the past few months, a number of residents claimed they were being overcharged due to a faulty water meter, city officials said.
The city replaced and tested meters at several residents' request, but each meter showed no inaccuracies in testing, Adams said.
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