If you are one of the approximately three thousand City of Moncton residents with their water bills being estimated, you’re being encouraged to regularly check your system for leaks.
Director of Utilities Nicole Taylor says while the meters are recording consumption, the meter transmission units – or MTUs – are not sending the data to the city properly.
“So we do have a leak detection program that we can look at customers that have a 300% increase in consumption over their historical,” Taylor says. “But when we can’t read via this MTU, we can’t know that there’s potentially a leak at a customer’s property.”
She says it is very easy to check for a leak, and explains how.
“You shut off every source of water throughout your home, and you go downstairs and you make sure the reading on your meter is not moving,” says Taylor. “It could be the digital numbers are moving, or some of them have a little white triangle, if the little white triangle is moving, that means there’s water being consumed.”
General Manager of Engineering and Environmental Services Jack MacDonald recommends everyone, but especially those on estimated billing, check for leaks monthly – adding a full blown toilet leak could cost almost $60 per day.
