How to Read Your Water Meter
The water meter inside your home is most likely to be in your
basement, the crawlspace, or utility closet (if your house is on a
slab.) Reading your water meter is similar to reading the odometer on
your car. Read all the numbers from left to right. The reading on your
water meter today is the total volume of water that has gone through
the meter since it was installed. Your usage for each billing cycle is
derived by subtracting the previous reading from the current reading.
The following is an example of what your meter face looks like.
Northville Township bills per 1,000 gallons (unit) and that is how
your meter is read. The last two dials represent the hundreds. When we
read your meter, we read the first four numbers on the meter, reading
from left to right. The example shown here reads at 0335. This
translates to 335,000 gallons of usage. If the next reading taken were
to be 0352; then we would know that 17,000 gallons of water had been
consumed.
The black triangle in the center is the leak detector (low flow
indicator). The clock-like dial on the right indicates water flow in
one gallon increments. One full revolution is equal to ten gallons of
water.
Northville Township
44405 Six Mile Rd.
Northville, MI. 48168
(248) 348-5800
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