Featured Articles

  1. The Challenge Of Flow Disturbances On Meter Accuracy 7/10/2018

    Accurately measuring flow is critical for water utility operations. Also, regulatory agencies mandate flow monitoring and require annual calibration of meters. But even a meter in perfect condition and properly calibrated can read inaccurately. Flow disturbances are a common cause of accuracy and repeatability errors.

  2. Columbia Improvement District Automates Efficiency With McCrometer's FPI Mag Flow Meter 6/28/2018

    ​McCrometer’s FPI Mag® meter was installed by Mark Maynard and his team at Columbia Improvement District in Oregon on September 2017.

  3. FPI Mag Meter Meets NSF/ANSI-61 And NSF/ANSI-372 To Assure The Highest Drinking Water Quality 12/7/2017

    McCrometer’s FPI Mag® meter is now NSF/ANSI-61 and NSF/ANSI-372 certified for municipal drinking water applications. In the U.S. and around the globe, municipalities and other water authorities have confidence knowing this instrument meets or exceeds the highest standards in water measurement from source to tap.

  4. All-In-One FlowConnect Delivers Accurate And Reliable Automated Meter Reading For Irrigation 3/9/2017

    With its breakthrough ExactRead™ technology, the new all-in-one FlowConnect™ from McCrometer automates data collection for theMc Propeller and Water Specialties meters to provide accurate, reliable information for irrigation and water resource management.

  5. 5 Keys On Reducing Non-Revenue Water 10/14/2016

    Water loss is a constant concern for drinking water utilities. After all of the hard (and expensive) work it takes to get a purified product out of the plant, losing it to leaks and aging infrastructure before it reaches ratepayers can be problematic.

  6. New Plug-And-Play Smart Output Mag Meters Simplify AMR And AMI Implementation 9/15/2016

    With new advanced plug-and-play real-time Smart Output communications, McCrometer’s  FPI Mag Flow Meter, SPI Mag Flow Meter and Ultra Mag Flow Meter all provide a highly effective solution for automatic meter reading (AMR) and advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) in support of utility smart grids that help conserve valuable water resources, reduce expensive non-revenue water costs, and simplify daily operations and routine maintenance.

  7. Measuring Flow In A Pump Station 3/1/2016

    A municipal drinking water distribution system, also known as a water supply system, is used to provide fresh drinking water to residential and commercial customers and facilities around the world. A distribution system for drinking water typically begins with: a) intake of raw surface water from a reservoir or lake or b) ground water intake from wells transferred to a water treatment plant. By Barry Spiegel, Director of Municipal Sales

  8. 3 Keys To Flow Meters As Water Management Tools 2/25/2016

    In an era when water scarcity, water quality and delivery costs are becoming urgent problems worldwide, the flow meter is more important than ever as a water management tool.    “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” is a simple business truism, which summarizes the growing role of flow meters in many water process applications.

  9. McCrometer Video Celebrates 60th Anniversary 12/15/2015

    McCrometer flow meters are in service worldwide — and even in outer space. From the American farmer to U.S. metropolitan water systems to subsea production systems in the North Sea to rugged industrial plants in Brazil, the Middle East and Asia, McCrometer meters are hard at work setting industry standards for the past 60 years.

  10. West Virginia City Says It All Adds Up With The FPI Mag Flow Meter 10/29/2015

    The city staff of Buckhannon, West Virginia, recently ran into a situation that didn’t add up. A flow meter at one of the city’s booster stations was indicating a flow rate higher than the capacity of the station’s pumps. The staff contacted the applications team at McCrometer about its flow meter accuracy problem.