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Meter Boxes & Lids.
For utilities, contractors and distributors who need meter box covers that match the local standard.
✓ Locking and non-locking lids ✓ Price sheets for five U.S. regions
✓ Lids with reader holes
What to send your regional team
- The standard detail or drawing
- The frame size
- Locking or non-locking, and any reader hole
- The marking on the lid
- The quantity and the job location
Made to the local standard.
Meter box covers follow the city or utility standard, from the frame size to the lid's lock and markings. That is why SIGMA lists them on regional light castings sheets, with local patterns alongside the standard covers.
The sheets list raised-frame covers with locking or non-locking lids, recessed lids and lids with reader holes, including extra-heavy versions. Extension rings, meter pit lids, monitor covers and some complete meter boxes are there too. For plastic meter boxes, see Meter Boxes and Enclosures.
Two ways to order.
Meter box covers are on the regional light castings sheets and the Southwest sheet. The sheets are all dated March 15, 2024. Not sure which region covers the job? Find your regional team.
Know the item number?
Find it on your region's light castings price sheet, then order through your waterworks distributor.
Have a spec or a drawing?
Send the standard detail or drawing to your regional team. They match it to a sheet item or quote it as a custom casting.
| Region | Regional team | Light castings price sheet |
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Northeast |
Cream Ridge, NJ |
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Midwest |
Sauk Village, IL |
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Southeast |
Alexander City, AL |
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Southwest |
Houston, TX |
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Western |
Ontario, CA · Auburn, WA |
Every casting carries its heat number.
The heat number traces a casting to the foundry, the date and the production batch. SIGMA has inspection procedures for each castings product line, at the foundry and again at SIGMA.
5 quality steps
Inspection procedures for each castings product line, SIGMA engineers or inspectors at the foundries, material test reports, incoming inspection at SIGMA and statistical process control.
ASTM and AASHTO
Standards SIGMA works to, with federal and state department specifications, Canada's BNQ standard and the customer's own requirements.
PE certification
By an outside professional engineer, on request.
From SIGMA's November 2024 article on municipal castings.
Questions about meter boxes and lids.
Short answers. Your regional team has the rest.
Both are on the sheets: non-locking lids, and locking lids, some with an overlapping lid. Use the type your spec calls for.
A hole in the lid for a meter reading pad, so the meter can be read without opening the box. The sheets list lids with one reader hole, including recessed versions.
Yes. SIGMA's plastic meter boxes and enclosures are under Meter Boxes and Enclosures. This page covers the metal frames, covers and lids. The Southwest sheet also lists plastic meter cans with metal covers.
Yes, as a custom order made to your specification. Send the drawing or standard detail for the meter box cover to your regional team. A new casting goes through a drawing, a sample and an approval step before production.
SIGMA sells through waterworks distributors, so your price comes from your distributor. Ask your distributor or your regional team about pricing.
Have the spec in hand?
Your regional team can match it to the right meter box cover.
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