Fort Worth Weekly
By MEGAN ABLES
Williams discovered that residents were not only experiencing drastically higher water bills but also water main breaks, noises in their pipes, and very high or very low water pressure.
Photo by Chris Spinks.
After noticing unusually high bills not long after the city installed new water meters in her neighborhood, Tabitha Williams reached out to other neighborhoods with new meters.
The results were similar.
Williams’ neighborhood, Wedgwood East, arranged for a virtual meeting with the Fort Worth Water Department. During the meeting, department leaders explained that the old meters weren’t registering accurate usage and the new ones are.
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FORT WORTH, Texas In Fort Worth s Wedgwood East neighborhood, the biggest complaint these days isn t about crime or tiffs between neighbors; it s about water bills. That s according to the neighborhood association president Tabitha Williams.
Williams said since the city started replacing manual-read water meters with new digital-read meters, dozens of neighbors have reported to her that their water bills have skyrocketed.