Mississippi Capital Replaces Faulty Water Meters – One of Many Upgrades Needed

Mississippi’s capital metropolis is putting in new meters to attempt to appropriate one downside with its water system.

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba stated that residents could quickly see Utility Metering Options workers of their neighborhoods for the set up, WAPT-TV reported.

The brand new water meters will substitute those put in underneath a contract with Siemens Trade Inc. The town employed Siemens underneath a $90 million contract in 2012 for set up of latest water meters, a brand new billing system and infrastructure work. However some clients have been billed too little or an excessive amount of, and a few didn’t obtain payments for lengthy durations of time. Some water meters failed, officers stated.

The town sued Siemens in 2019, and officers introduced in 2020 that the corporate had agreed to a $90 million settlement.

Lumumba stated officers are hoping that putting in new water meters will assist repair the town’s monetary issues attributable to unpaid water payments.

Jackson has longstanding issues with its growing old water system, and the EPA issued a discover in late January that the system violates the federal Protected Ingesting Water Act. The order directed the town to stipulate a plan to “appropriate the numerous deficiencies recognized” in an EPA report inside 45 days.

Throughout a chilly snap in February 2021, tools froze in a Jackson water therapy plant. For weeks, tens of 1000’s of individuals have been left with no working water or water stress that was dangerously low.

Photograph: Metropolis officers assist residents fill water containers after a winter storm in February 2021 shut off water to 1000’s of residents, spotlight deep issues with the town’s growing old water system. (AP Photograph/Rogelio V. Solis)

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