Water Meter Installation Status:
January 27, 2021
Mandatory Water Meters are Here
The Board of Water Commissioners voted on October 5, 2020, that water meters will be installed at City Expense for all existing water users in the City of Newport.
Please click on this link to review the informational flier:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12hL124d-fgXsft0X6hkPtVZbirflgwmt/view?usp=sharing
What Does This Mean for You?
This means that a Public Works Employee will soon reach out to you to schedule a site visit to your home or place of business. The employees will be covid compliant, and they will assess your site for ease of installation. If they can install it easily, they will do so then. If they need special tools or a plumber to do the installation, they will coordinate with you.
What are the Benefits of Installing Water Meters?
- Fully metering the system will allow the city to implement an updated rate structure that is more equitable than the current flat-fee rates.
- Billing will be based on usage which will give users more control over their own water bills.
- Metering will reduce overall water usage to preserve the existing capacity and better manager operation costs.
- Fully metering the system will allow the City to take advantage of federal funding opportunities for water and sewer infrastructure in the future.
When Will Billing From my Meter Begin?
- For those households that have meters already installed and are not being billed from it, please expect to be billed from it effective with the next meter reading for the period of February 1 – April 30, to be billed in May with a June, 2021 due date.
- For those households that are already being billed from a meter, nothing will change.
- Any application for allocation for new residential/commercial/industrial construction will continue to be required to pay for their meter and be billed from it.
- If you would like to have a meter installed right away and do not hear from the Public Works Department, please feel free to give them a call at the WasteWater Treatment Facility (WWTF) at (802) 334-8886 to schedule your meter installation today!
