Specifications include, but are not limited to: Gathering information to refine water specific technology. Tacoma Water is part of Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU), a municipal utility provider of water, power, and rail services to the Greater Tacoma region south of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest. TPU is planning a system-wide deployment of advanced meters for its water and power utilities, with deployment of the meters targeted for 2020-2021 of nearly 103,000 water meters and 178,000 power meters. 79,000 of the water utility's meters provide service to accounts that also receive power service from TPU, and 65,000 of the water utility's meters provide service to accounts inside the City of Tacoma that receive service from TPU and from Tacoma's Environmental Services division, which provides wastewater, storm, and solid waste collection service. The same ERP/CIS (SAP ECC 6.0), billing platform and organization is used for these services throughout their respective service territories.
