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)2,' .; '1 JANUARY 22, 1974 TUESDAY manner to insure an accurate measurement of waste entering the City's system and to insure that samples of waste are obtained for testing purposes. Where meters, in use or subsequently installed, are inadequate in operation or performance or are determined by the City to be inadequate in size, the City may direct the Authority to replace such meters with satisfactory meters. At each new point of delivery to the City and at each present point of delivery of wastes to the City where a recording flow meter is not now installed or, being installed, is inadequate in size, operation or performance, the City may direct the Authority to procure, install, operate and maintain adequate recording flow meters and any necessary related facilities at or near the point of connection of the Authority sewer line with the City sewer line. In event of termination of this contract or in event of discontinuance of the use of any Authority sewer lines affected hereby, any meter or meters relating thereto will be the property of the Authority. It is recognized that in order to meter sewage flow in a line there must be sufficient quantity consistently in the line for the metering device to register accurately. Therefore, there are and will be locations where the number of connections to the line and subsequent sewage flows would render metering impractical. If the service area of any line is of such characteristic that the operation and functioning of metering equipment would be impractical due to lack of flow, the quantity of flow entering the City's system from such lines shall be determined from the actual amount of water used by all residential, commercial and industrial buildings within such areas connected to the Authority's system as determined by water meters owned by the Authority or in such other manner as may be agreed upon by the contract parties, an allowance being made for infiltration or other factors known or reasonably expected to exist. If the service area characteristics change for any such line so as to render metering of such lines practical, a meter shall be installed in accordance with the provision of Paragraph II. C., supra. As of the first day of the month immediately following the date of this contract, and monthly thereafter, the City shall read all meters recording flow from Authority sewer lines into City sewer lines. Such meter readings, plus the calculated sewage flow of any then unmetered lines, shall be the basis of charges made to the Authority under Sections IV and IX, infra, of this contract. It is agreed that the Authority shall deliver to the City, each month, a sheet indicating the meter readings of each meter recording flow reaching the City system from the AREA, which sheet shall show the amount of water used or total flow reaching the City system. The Authority agrees to maintain the meters in such a manner as to insure proper measurement of flow. The City shall have the privilege of checking said meters to determine their accuracy and if it is found by such test that any of such meters are not registering flow accurately as per American Water Works Association standards, upon notification by the City of any inaccuracies of said meters, the Authority shall proceed forthwith to make repairs or replacements as necessary to insure that the quantity of water is measured accurately. Should weather conditions, malfunctioning of meter or other circumstances beyond immediate remedy reasonably prohibit the City from a regular reading of a meter, then the sewage flow through such line for the particular month shall be the average of the sewage flow for the three consecutive preceding months wherein actual sewage flows were recorded. Records of metered and calculated sewage flow, obtained and maintained by the City, shall be reported to the Authority, and such records shall be available for inspection by the Authority during all normal business hours. The City may request the Authority in writing to provide, install and maintain a bypass connection around each such meter, for emergency use, only; and the City may request the Authority in writing to provide, install and maintain manually or automatically operated facilities for taking samples at each said metering place or at any point of delivery of Authority wastes.