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Leaking Water in Knoxville
The City of Knoxville has leaking water, though even aldermen will tell you that's nothing new.

The City Council in Knoxville on Monday approved contracting with a leak detection service to essentially go through all the city's water lines, and determine where there are leaks.

"We pay for over seven million gallons of water per month and you take 25 percent of the top of that, we're losing a lot of water."

Alderman and Water/Sewer Committee Chair Ed Mahar. He says the city has contracted for such a service in recent years, but the firm that was hired, he believes didn't do a very good job.

City Treasurer and former water superintendent Jim Whitney says reducing that 25 percent loss rate may be easier said than done.

"I got it down to 15 percent once, you always have losses. When we started checking that closely it was 35 percent of loss and we progressively worked on it."

Whitney says one of the solutions was to make sure every city-owned property had water meters so water consumption could be better tracked.

In this case, it's not known when leak detection work will begin, nor what the solution would be.
06 08 11 by Newsroom
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