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REVIEW FEBRUARY 19, 2025
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Digital water meters on the way, customers can monitor water use
All Forest Park water meters will be replaced with ones that come with a customer portal By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
Forest Park is one step closer to replacing water meters throughout the village. At the last village council meeting, commissioners unanimously approved three ordinances that move forward this year’s effort to replace all residential and commercial manual water meters with digital ones. “It should be an easy transition,” Sal Stella, director of the village’s public works department, previously told the Review of the new water meters. “It’s helping my department as far as being more efficient.” The village started replacing water meters in 2000, largely targeting those that were degrading or faulty. The replacement meters were mechanical with a wireless system, so public works employees drove around town to read the meters, but didn’t have to
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Unless they have a warrant signed by a judge, schools won’t let them in. Story, page 5
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