Nick Fortune, TriRiver Water’s director of business management, said the service provider plans to offer a mobile app to its customers around October.
The app would allow customers to get water alerts, pay their bills and get advanced metering infrastructure data about their connection.
With AMI data, customers can view their hourly water consumption and set up notifications, according to Fortune.
It should be finished by December, he said.
An after hours answering service was recently set up for TriRiver customers, he said.
Lead service line field investigations are concluding this week, and Fortune said it looks like there will be very few in Sanford that need to be replaced.
HONEY TASTING
He also noted that a honey tasting event is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22 at the McSwain Center, 2420 Tramway Road.
Tasting costs $5 and tasters will vote for their favorite, he said.
The Lee County Beekeepers Association is sponsoring the event in conjunction with the Great Southeast Pollinator Census.
Mayor Rebecca Salmon noted the city’s two honeys will be among those available.
In other news, the council heard from Betsy Rascoe from Design Dimension of Zebulon about some ideas for the Pilgrim’s Sanford Marketplace, which is scheduled to open next spring.
“People love this space, and people’s expectations of it are really high,” Salmon said. “We’re really excited. We’re looking for more details.”
City staff also presented an update about citizens being able to more readily access planning documents through city and county websites, noting that the sites went live a week ago.
The city’s site can be located at sanfordnc.net/869/Development-Tracking-Project-Map.
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