 Water
Meters
The water meters used by Citrus County
Utilities are designed and manufactured to accurately measure
water usage. Most residential water meters are guaranteed to be
accurate by the manufacturer for ten (10) years or one million
gallons, whichever occurs first. Due to normal wear and tear meters
generally slow down and therefore do not measure all the water
used. Older meters or meters that have registered over one million
gallons regardless of age are replaced during an annual water
meter replacement program.
 The
majority of our water meters are located below ground level, near
the street, in a plastic, metal or concrete meter box. Opening
the lid of this box and wiping away or sometimes removing several
inches of dirt will reveal the water meter. Most meters are comprised
of a meter dial over, usually imprinted with the meter number
that appears on your monthly billing statement, a glass meter
dial and register and a water shut off valve.
Located inside the glass face of
the water meter is a row of numbers, much like the odometer of
a car. This is the meter register that indicates the number of
gallons that have passed through the water meter since it was
manufactured.
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