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ORION® Case Study: Terrebonne, LA

From Badger Meter, Inc.
 

 

The residents of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana feel fortunate to have missed the devastation suffered by New Orleans during the catastrophic 2005 hurricane season. Terrebonne Parish lies about 65 miles southwest of New Orleans. Although the parish suffered some damage, it escaped the destructive tidal surges of Hurricane Katrina that swamped New Orleans, and from Hurricane Rita that roared ashore further to the west.

Those that live along the gulf coast have learned to deal with the effects of the gulf tides that impact many aspects of everyday life. Stephen Hornsby is the general manager of Consolidated Water Works, the utility that provides Terrebonne Parish with its drinking water. Brackish water driven by storms and daily tidal movement routinely submerge portions of his service area, which makes Consolidated Water Works a real-world laboratory to test the durability and reliability of water meters. Badger Meter has been testing its water meters here for years, and seeing the results first hand may be one of the reasons that most of Hornsby's 40,000 water meters came from Badger.

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