WEST CAPE MAY — The City of Cape May will replace a meter in Wilbraham Park in June that is believed to be responsible for more than 17 million of gallons per year of missing municipal water from the borough.
Mayor Pamela Kaithern and Borough Solicitor Frank Corrado met with Cape May officials two weeks ago to discuss installation of the meter. The new meter is designed to record very low water flow.
Installation of the new 12-inch meter is scheduled for June 4. Kaithern said that date is the Monday after the Strawberry Festival. She said a week of construction is scheduled followed by a week of restoration.
The mayor said that would leave a week of leeway before the next event is scheduled in the park for bad weather or unforeseen circumstances. Kaithern said a 8-foot by 9-foot pit would be excavated in Wilbraham Park.
She said the meter would be one-and-half-feet off the ground, so grading would be done from ground level with landscaping restored after installation.
Kaithern said small plants would be removed prior to installation and later replanted.
Borough Commission went into closed session to discuss potential litigation related to the water loss.
On year ago, West Cape May hired a meter expert who conducted a study on the five master meters used by Cape May.
The borough also hired Eden Water Resource Recovery to discover the cause of 121 million gallons of water missing from 2003 to 2009 valued at $695,000.
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