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Jacksonville was chartered in 1832.
The first waterworks were built in 1880 by the City of Jacksonville.
The waterworks are currently owned by JEA, formerly the Jacksonville Electric Authority, which took over the City of Jacksonville water system in 1997.
References
1880 Engineering
News 7:134 (April 10, 1880)
Jacksonville, Fla., has just become provided with a public water supply,
and its Board of Water Commissioners, profiting by the costly and
vexatious experience of other cities in the matter of water waste, and
believing the early prevention of the evil to be far better than its late
cure, has decided upon a general introduction of water meters. Having duly
compared and considered the merits and records of the various patterns now
in the market, the Board finally adopted the "Crown Meter," manufactured
by the National Meter Company, to whom they have just given an order for
50 of the meters, with which to initiate the system.
It is worthy of special mention that the above is the first instance on
record in which a city has made compulsory the attachment of a water meter
to every tap. In the present instance the "Crown Meter" is to be used
exclusively. The National Meter Company has lately been kept very busy
filling orders for large meters, both of the "Gem" and the "Crown"
patterns. Of the former pattern the company has meters in use reaching to
and and including the 10-in. size.
1881 Jacksonville, Engineering News, 8:413 (October 15, 1881)
1882 Jacksonville from "The Water-Supply of Certain Cities and Towns of the United States," by Walter G. Elliot, C. E., Ph. D.
1888 "Jacksonville," from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 1.
1890 "Jacksonville," from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 2.
1891 "Jacksonville," from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 3.
1897 "Jacksonville," from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 4.
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