The City of Lima is nearly complete with their replacement of water meters.
The City started the near $10 million project last fall and utilities director Mike Caprella says they should be finished by the end of August. The new installation of meters will replace a 20-year-old model and allow them to be read remotely and sent straight to the billing office. Caprella says the city has had some issues with people who have meters in their basements. They haven't been responding to notifications to schedule an appointment with the installer.
"We send like three notices and then a phone call to let people know and there's still people that won't follow up," Caprella said. "And if they don't follow up we have no choice but to turn off their service until they do. Then we get a pretty quick response back from them when we do that."
Although installations will be completed in August, Caprella added some clean up will need to follow for the project to be complete.
