What is the water meter bylaw?
The water meter bylaw (276 KB) legislates the mandatory metering of flat rate customers starting January 1, 2010. City Council recently amended this bylaw to move up the date of mandatory installs from 2012 to 2010. Approximately 10,000 meters will be installed on a community-by-community basis between 2010 and 2014 – the goal is to have all homes on water meters by year-end 2014. Water meters will also continue to be installed when homes are built, new accounts are created (a home is sold) and when Calgarians voluntarily request a meter installation. The City of Calgary’s ’30-in-30′ goal is to accommodate our population growth with the same amount of water from the river as 2003. A key way to meet this goal is water metering, where people pay for the water they use rather than have a flat rate for unlimited water usage.
