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George

On 5/29/2012 12:28 AM, wrote:

It's a straight shot from meter to house. But the only way to run
outside faucets from city water is to tee form the straight line and
run it around the house. You can't get from house to outside easily,
house has concrete basement walls that extend a few feet above ground
level.
Do it the way they do it in "the rest of the world" where water
meters are inside the house to keep them from freezing, and ALL
outside faucets are fed through the concrete foundations

i've heard of very few, and seen even less places where the meter is
inside.
You haven't travelled much.

been in 45 states. only seen an indoor meter in person once.
Well, I've been in 30? of your states, 10 provinces, and at least 10
other countries. Likely closer to 15. I have seen meters above ground
at street, above ground outside house, and inside houses. I haven't
seen them underground at the street - but I guess if they were
underground I wouldn't see them, would I?? Just as if they were INSIDE
you would be unlikely to see them - unless you purposefully went
looking for them. Not knowing where mine is located you could be in my
house for a week and not know I HAD a meter unless you searched for it
(and got lucky - since you couldn't follow the pipes because, like
MOST basement around here, mine is almost TOTALLY finished.

The very typical arrangement where I live and at least the dozen states
around me is indoor water meters. The only time they use an outside
meter pit is for the few places that cannot accommodate a meter. For
example the cemetery where most of my family is buried has a few frost
proof hydrants and there is a meter pit next to the first one.

Anywhere frost is common I've never seen one outside above ground.
Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Manitoba,
Sakatchewan, much of BC, Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, Idaho,
Michigan, northern New York would have at least a large percentage
inside. I suspect Kansas and oklahoma would too,.

I've seen ouside meters in Florida, Georgia,Tennessee, South Carolina,
and west virginia, as well as parts of Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Italy,
saeveral caribean islands and France. A lot of these places don't all
have water meters.OPr even municipal water.
No water meters in Burkina Faso, Bottswana and Zambia - at least when
I was there.