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Old 05-04-2025, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 View Post
FYI, $982 is about 138,000 gallons of irrigation water. It seems like the The Villages would have a way to monitor and shut off a customer before they use that much water.
There is no monitoring of water usage, only the one reading per month. At *that* point they will notify a customer but the damage is already done.

What you suggest would be possible with the AMI meters that the District recently rejected. Even then, there would need to be software to notice an anomaly and some policy for when water might be shut off to a customer.
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