Monterey No Longer Being Monitored For Water Loss

Tennessee state officials are no longer monitoring Monterey for water loss.

That according to Mayor Bill Wiggins, who said the city has worked diligently to solve the problem over the past few years.

“For years, Monterey has coped with a creeky sort of system out there with old meters,” Wiggins said. “We were being monitored for that water lost and being reprimanded. What Monterey is going to do to address this problem is to install what’s called retro meters, and those things are bullseye-accurate. Every drop is measured.”

Wiggins said the town had an issue with water loss since he first took office in 2014.

“That’s one of the first realities I was introduced to, that we were being monitored by a division of the comptroller’s office,” Wiggins said. “At that time, Monterey was already in the process of installing the more-reliable retro meters.”

Wiggins said addressing the issue didn’t cost the city any additional money, but could potentially impact future waterline expansion projects.

Monterey last suffered a major water loss in November when the event caused a citywide outage and forced school closures.