When Duane Covington took over as superintendent of Chariton Waterworks almost two years ago, he resumed a project started by his predecessor — changing out old water meters in the Iowa community.Some of those old meters may have a second life in store for them though, instead of the alternative — the scrap pile.“We’re moving to a new radio-read system, so we’re replacing every meter we come across,” says Covington. “We’re scrapping most of them, but then we figured, 'Why scrap them?' and started playing around with ideas on how to repurpose some of them.”Gut a meter’s components, add a
Old Water Meters Met With Creativity
When an Iowa water utility replaced its manual water meters, they decided to upcycle the old equipment by repurposing it
Jul 22, 2015
| by Kyle Rogers |
