Sizing Water Service Lines and Meters 2004

Publication Date: June 1, 2004 | ISBN-10: 1583212795 | ISBN-13: 978-1583212790 | Edition: 2nd
This utility operations manual will guide the utility in choosing the best sizes for customer water meters and service lines.

Historically, water utilities sized customer service connections and meters based upon the peak flow rates that the meter was expected to encounter. Since peak flows occur only rarely, meters sized in this way record the lower, average daily flow in the low end of their design range