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ORION® Case Study Cannon Beach, OR

From Badger Meter, Inc.
 

 

The view of the town from Ecola Park is one of the most picturesque in the world, which is one reason Cannon Beach is a popular vacation destination. It's also been a shooting location for many movies, including Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, 1941, and Point Break. Daniel Willyard, water specialist, City of Cannon Beach, appeared as an extra in Point Break. "I'm the second guy out of the helicopter," he says. "The one with the rifle."

Willyard has been reading meters for Cannon Beach since 1981. For seventeen years, he and other meter readers recorded reads with paper and pencil in twenty-four black three-ring binders.
"We had a reader who would complete the routes on his bicycle," he recalls. "One day a big wind blew his binders down the side of a cliff. Imagine trying to recover all those records. Things have definitely improved since those days."

The City began switching over its 1,700 meters to Badger Meter in 1990. "I'm really glad we made the switch to Badger Meter," explains Willyard. "They're always ahead of the curve, trying to make old and new equipment compatible and not simply sticking with outdated technology. I once examined a Badger Meter at my grandfather's cabin in Yosemite. The meter was from the early 70s but you could see that it can be fitted with new heads."

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