Your water meter is the most reliable way to confirm a hidden leak in your Parker home. Unlike a visible drip or a wet spot, a hidden leak in a slab, wall, or buried line leaves no mark you can see. But it leaves a trace on your meter, and this tool turns that trace into a dollar figure and a likely source.
Parker Water and Sanitation District (PWSD) uses a tiered rate structure with a specific winter sewer mechanic. This tool accounts for both. Enter your two meter readings below and it calculates gallons lost per hour, the monthly cost on PWSD rates, and what the loss points to.
Step 1: Run the meter test
- Turn off every water fixture and appliance in the home, including ice makers and irrigation controllers.
- Find your PWSD meter at the curb, lift the lid, and read the number. Write it down.
- Wait at least 2 hours without using any water. A longer window gives more accurate results.
- Read the meter again and enter both readings below.
Step 2: Enter your readings
What your meter reading proves
If your second reading is higher than your first with all water off, water is actively leaving your system. The meter does not lie. Common sources at different loss rates include a slow faucet drip at the low end, a running toilet in the middle range, and a slab leak or main water line break at the high end.
For occasional high bills with no meter movement during the test, the leak may be intermittent, such as a toilet flapper that only releases after a flush. Professional acoustic leak detection finds losses that the meter test cannot capture in a short window.
Parker Water sewer billing
PWSD bases your sewer charge on the lower of your current metered use or your Winter Average (Dec, Jan, Feb average). A summer leak adds only to your water cost. A winter leak can inflate your winter average and raise your sewer charge for the next 12 months. This is why the timing of a leak matters in Parker.
Not getting a reading? If your meter did not move, you likely do not have an active continuous leak right now. Consider a toilet flapper test (drop food coloring in the tank), or re-run the meter test over a longer window. If your bill is still unexplainably high, call us at (303) 552-3896 for an electronic leak scan.
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