Vol. 19 No. 24
Voyager Media Publications • shorewoodsentinel.com
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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New water meters for Fox Bend subdivision
If the new meters aren’t installed, the old ones will fail, says Trustee Anderson By Stewart warren For the sentinel
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Youth Services Director Will Savage gets a group goodbye at his farewell party. Savage sports a pair of his famous shoes.
Savage said he will miss the people the children and their supportive parents - the most. “the programs were fun because of the people who showed up. i had as much fun as they did every week,” he said.
The homes in the Fox Bend subdivision are getting an upgrade, thanks to the village of Shorewood. New water meter will be installed inside each house in the neighborhood at River Road and U.S. 52, explained Shorewood Trustee Dan Anderson during the Village Board meeting on Tuesday. The change “they are must be made. the oldest “They are the style for oldest style for what we are using for the what we are radio reads of meters,” using for the Anderson said. “The radio reads batteries in the meters of meters,” are going out.” anderson If the new meters said. “the aren’t installed, the batteries in old ones will fail, he the meters are added. going out.” In the old days, a worker had to check each meter in a neighborhood to figure out how much water had been used. That’s changed. These days, the meters are read by a piece of equipment, Anderson explained. At some point in the future, the newest meters will be read even more remotely, perhaps by a gadget installed on the top of a water tower. The village is going to drop a post card into the mail on Friday addressed to each Fox Bend resident. It will request a telephone call to the >> See water | page 3