The Town of Glenville residents received a notice to make an appointment with East National Water, LLC to install AMR Water meters at “free of charge”. Really? Is this really the truth? In the notice sent to the Town of Glenville residents and business on October 2, 2017: “Recently, the town has contracted with East National Water, LLC of Palmer, MA, to replace your in-home meter, This will occur free of charge.” So who is really paying East National Water for this installation? According to the article by the Daily Gazette dated June 26, 2017 YOU are! “The entire cost will be borne by water district customers. Koetzle said the project will add about $10 per year to each water bill, some of which will be offset through lower postage costs and the more-efficient use of staff once the billing system changes.” How is that free of charge? Ten dollars may not seem like much. However, has any discussion occurred to the residents of Glenville how a ‘new billing system’ will undoubtedly exponentially raise the water bills over time? How long will this extorted ten dollars per year go on for? First, consider the high cost of installing these meters and software. Going back to the Daily Gazette article where it states the following: “The Town Board recently awarded two contracts totaling $1.78 million for the meters and their installation. Last week the Town Board voted to borrow $950,000, with the remainder of the project cost coming from a capital reserve account. The purchase includes both the meters and the computer software needed to read them.” That amount is more than what the Town of Glenville can really afford. It is already on record the entire cost will be borne by the water district customers. Thus, what might happen if they successfully install these meters in everyone’s homes and businesses? According to an article by Oracle, a heavyweight in data management with a competitive focus on Smart Grids, where back in 2009 discusses that once the computer program is in place the benefit to the utility, now potentially being applicable to the Town of Glenville states: “Customer information systems that easily and rapidly implement new rates.” After all, how long is the Town of Glenville willing to wait for full recovery on that big loan? Currently and at least through 2018 our fail safe analog meter reads are submitted once per year to the town. Low water users pay $40 per year for water that is sourced from an aquifer then treated with neurotoxins and carcinogens such chlorine and fluoride (another serious topic). The annual water bill was the only reasonable cost for the residents of Glenville while our pockets are otherwise being sucked dry with property and school taxes. What will likely happen then once this computer software is in place and most homes are now suckered into replacing their analogs with a meter that transmits information via radio frequencies? Let’s go back to that Oracle article discussing how thee meters work: “In AMR, meters communicate their monthly or daily consumption totals to a central collector using one of a number of different communications techniques, such as radio signals, power-line communications, or satellite reads. In other words, they are designed to replace house-to-house meter readers with centralized collection.” Monthly or daily consumption totals? To a centralized collection? The town states they will drive by to capture the reads once per year. How long will that be? Time will tell. And all for $1.7 million. Here is my prediction on what will happen likely close to around 2019 to 2020. Your annual bill will transition to a monthly bill. Given the current rate of minimal water use at $40 year that would equate to $3.33 per month. Sending monthly bills at this amount would not be cost effective. The Town of Glenville needs to find some way to recover the $1.7 million contract expenditure to install meters in a mere 5,500 homes and businesses. That cost is approximately $310 per home or business. The $10 per year extorted fee would otherwise take approximately 31 years in order to recover these expenditures. Thus, that leaves approximately $300 left per unit to repay this contract and loan. Predictably, the Town of Glenville residents will likely eventually be forced into a monthly bill at or around a minimum of $25 per month, $300 per year increasing the cost by about 750%. If the town does not go that route, which I doubt that they won’t, it will have to be inserted into the property tax bill. Either way, the Town of Glenville residents LOOSE. As with all taxes, once these expenditures are paid back by the residents, will these monthly or annual increased costs of only $10 go away? I doubt it. As Koetzle was quoted in the Daily Gazette: “The entire cost will be borne by water district customers.” That is what he said. THE ENTIRE COST. Let that sink in as $10 per customer extorted charge obviously will not cut it. If the Town of Glenville utilizes the AMR meter such as Invensys (there are many models out there) the meter shows an analog type that is wired fro radio frequencies to transmit flow totals as water is flowing such as gas meters. However, another invasive daily or monthly read that will eventually or immediately goes to a central location without the resident’s permission. All they need to know is the annual usage without this horrible expense. Will residents forget their 4th Amendment rights and enter into a new contract without sufficient information by allowing another Tracking Technology device along with a known, well vetted researched health hazards1 into their home on the exploding invasion of EMF’s, microwaves and radio frequencies? All of us along with our pets and all living things are now swimming in it. Unfortunately, the residents are not sufficiently educated or informed. NOT in my home. NEVER. Either The Town of Glenville does NOT have my consent to trespass on my property or will East National Water, LLC. I will happily mail in my water meter reading from my analog meter and pay the $40 on an annual basis, without the $10 extorted charge. My tax already subsidizes the town to do what seems to them a horrible dirty job for three measly months collecting the data and funds from the residents. Suck it up Town of Glenville. It’s what I have only agreed, contracted as a customer for you to do. If the Town of Glenville fully discloses the absolute costs and recovery agenda, meter reading timing and billing specifics on this water meter plan to include BOTH the short and long term analysis and agenda on what they are planning will I be able to revise what appears is going to occur. Next challenge: Getting that viciously dangerous to health and invasion to privacy Electric Smart Meter replaced by an analog. National Grid, you’ve been a problem with no thanks to then Governor Patterson and now Cuomo along with all the related NGO’s with the technocracy dictatorship they intend to fully implement.
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