Vacuum truck built to exact specificationsProblem: When the City of Troy, Alabama, implemented advanced metering infrastructure, city leaders researched ways to clean the water meter boxes of its several thousand customers to prep them for replacement. “We have 7,000 to 8,000 meter boxes, and we have not had a complete meter change-out in over 20 years, so the majority of boxes are full of dirt and other debris,” says Mike Davis, assistant general manager of Troy Utilities.Solution: The company that makes the smart meters told city officials about a Texas municipality doing the same work with a Vermeer by McLaughlin
