Eclectic to install digital water meters

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Eclectic Mayor Gary Davenport, left, looks at one of the 1,600 digital meters the town recently purchased as Eclectic's Water Works and Sewer Board office manager Jennifer Lyle-Mattox looks on.

The Town of Eclectic Water Works and Sewer Board invested around $350,000 to purchase and eventually install 1,600 digital water meters for the system’s 1,600 customers.

Jennifer Lyle-Mattox, the department’s office manager who has worked for the department for 23 years, said digital water meters are the biggest change she has seen take place in the water delivery industry.