Grand Forks to begin replacing aging water meters this year

Grand Forks to begin replacing aging water meters this year

GRAND FORKS Grand Forks is about to embark on a citywide water meter replacement project and update its 25-year-old system.The current system was first introduced in 1999 and was already slated to begin replacement in 2024. However new urgency arose when Itron, the manufacturer of the current water meters, notified the city that the data transmitters for the oldest meters in use would no longer be made. The outmoding of the old meters led the c…