Our Plans and Progress
The City of Sacramento has made steady progress toward installing meters to meet the 2025 deadline required by state law.
More than 27,000 (or 25 percent) of 110,000 water meters have been installed. Nearly 100 percent of commercial properties have water meters, as well as homes built after 1992. In 2010, the City began billing customers, who had received a year of comparative data on a metered rate.
Because the City had already committed to replacing its aging water mains located in customers' back yards before the metering law passed, the City is now conducting a joint main replacement and meter installation program. Combining these efforts saves resources and reduces impacts on our customers.
The City also has aggressively pursued outside funding to minimize the program's financial burden on rate payers. In 2009, the City received more than $22 million in federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and with those funds installed more than 20,000 meters.
This outside funding was critical to the City's progress, making it possible to triple the number of meters installed in one year compared to the previous four years combined.
Upcoming projects
This fall, the City is planning to install meters in the Pocket and some Southeast Sacramento neighborhoods, located in Council District 6 . Residents will be notified well in advance of construction.
In early 2011, the City will continue replacing water mains and installing meters in the Land Park area and plans to begin a new project in Curtis Park.
