Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1911 — Kentland Water Service Now on. Meter Basis. [ARTICLE]

Kentland Water Service Now on. Meter Basis.

Kentland Enterprise. The Kentland water service was put on a meter basis Saturday morning. Th,e order for meters was made about eight .months ago, hut desiring to give the people ample time for installing the same, the town board has extended the time limit from month to month. All but twenty-five or thirty patrons had complied with the onder, and the board believing sufficient leniency had been shown, directed the water superintendent to turn off all lines not metered. The service is now where it can be conducted on a business basis. Every consumer pays for the water they use, and no more. They are not taxed to pay for tjie wastefulness of others, and the town is saved the expense of pumping the thousands of gallons formerly wasted dally. Those who have been using meters for a few months find them much'- more s&tistsctary than- the -flat rate, more economical, and yet the rate is sufficient to permit the operating of the plant on a self supporting basis. *••• o Those who found the water turned off Saturday morning, with the temperature running up to the hundred mark, did some quiet cursing, but a majority took the matter philosophically and are having meters installed. It’s impossible to carry out such work without treading on th/ toes of some.