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<br /> <br />Table No.8 <br />Suggested Uses for Each- Type of Meter Classification <br /> <br />Current meters <br />2 - 12 in. <br /> <br />Customer with normal demands <br />Residential, small to medium apartments <br />Small business (barber shops, small hotels and <br />motels) <br />Filling stations <br />Restaurants <br />Large hotels and motels <br />Customers requiring high demands, or continuous <br />flows <br />Some manufacturing, r~fi~eries~ petro-chemical <br />Public irrigation (no leakage) <br />Pump discharge <br />Large government instaIlations <br /> <br />Positive-displacement meters <br />5/8 - 3 in. <br /> <br />Compound meters <br />2 -10 in <br /> <br />Medium hotels and motels <br />Special customer having high and low demands <br />Schools' <br />Public, buildings <br />Laundries <br />Lar e a artments,' condominiums <br /> <br />Fire-line meters <br /> <br />Fire service <br /> <br />Recording meters with orifice or flow tubes <br /> <br />Pump discharge <br />Water districts <br />Special demand ,customers <br />Research a 'Ii cations <br /> <br />Source: A WWA M22: Sizing Water Service Lines & Meters (1975) <br />