How to Read Your Water Meter

Guidelines
Most water meters have a register like the odometer on a car. The last two digits are the hundredths measure and the four to five digits in front of those are the actual reads used to measure the usage.
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If you have dials on the meter, start on the right  with the 1,000 cubic-foot-value dial. Then read the 10,000 and 100,000 cubic-foot-value dial.

Dials with the maximum of 1, 10, and 100 are used for testing only. Please disregard for your reading.

The present read depicted on both meters is 1356.