Is your water meter in a weird place? If so, where is it?

[Anonymous]

We... don't know where our water meter is. We do not have a pit in front of our old 1950s townhouse, and it isn't in the next one to the right or left (ie, not in a shared pit with neighbor).

Is your water meter in a strange place? If so, where is it? Where else should we look? We contacted American Water, and they don't know either. So... onto the interwebs we go seeking advice.

[Anonymous]

We have a 1950s rambler in Silver Spring. Our meter is in the basement at the spot where the waterline comes into our house. The water company can read it remotely, so nobody looks at it.

[Anonymous]

There's a man-hole thing on the sidewalk in front of our house. The water meter guy occasionally comes by, lifts up the man-hole cover with his hook, records, and keeps driving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a man-hole thing on the sidewalk in front of our house. The water meter guy occasionally comes by, lifts up the man-hole cover with his hook, records, and keeps driving.

Same, and we’re in a DC row house. Only ours is in our tiny front yard, not on the sidewalk. Sometimes the manhole thingy gets buried by mulch and they just brush it off.

[Anonymous]

The plumbers usually know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a man-hole thing on the sidewalk in front of our house. The water meter guy occasionally comes by, lifts up the man-hole cover with his hook, records, and keeps driving.

This is not a weird place. Manhole pit thingies are the normal place in older neighborhoods.