The Cary Watchmen report here that the Cary City Council recently voted to install electronic water meters that can report a homeowner’s water usage on an hourly basis.

In what can only be described as the stealth delivery of an early turkey, the Cary Town Council (excluding Councilman Don Frantz, who wisely voted against it) gave its final approval for a $17m program to install electronic water meters (AMR) in our homes that are capable of reporting your water usage on an hourly
basis. Hello, Big Brother. Despite promises in August by Karen Mills,
the project’s manager, to provide the Cary Watchmen with details for
review (she didn’t), the Town staff and Council have decided to force
this Orwellian system on citizens only
days after Councilwoman Julie Robison assured us that AMR was “dead”
due to lack of funding. The Cary Watchmen wonder why all the secrecy, and given the dire state of our economy, why now?  Might this be related to the Town’s plans for massive increases in property taxes and fees?
Read the recent history of this highly questionable project below.