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<br />City of North glenn Water Conservation Plan <br /> <br />and 68 municipal accounts. Table 1 provides the number of customers by type of <br />account, i.e., customer class, and the Equivalent Residential Units (EQRs) for <br />each. The City defines an EQR as the average annual volume of treated water <br />supplied to an average, detached-single-family residential-unit account within the <br />City. EQRs are updated annually, and are calculated as the five year rolling <br />average of annual water consumption by single-family accounts divided by the <br />number of single-family homes. During the 2001 to 2004 period, the number of <br />accounts increased by 232 and EQRs increased by 6.5% during the same period. <br /> <br />Table 1: 2001 and 2004 City of Northglenn Water Users by Account Type <br /> <br /> Single Commercial <br /> Family Townhome Apartment Ilndustrial School Municipal Total <br />E 1# of Accounts 8,697 783 110 364 26 65 10,045 <br />~ I EQRs 8,621 727 2,199 1,980 425 578 14,530 <br />~ 1# of Accounts 8,809 864 137 375 24 68 10,277 <br />~ I EQRs 8,803 834 2,467 2,315 384 666 15,469 <br /> <br />The City began implementing water conservation initiatives late in the summer <br />of2001. In 2002 a multi-year, regional drought began, prompting the City to <br />adopt drought mitigation measures. A discussion of specific measures can be <br />found in section 2.3. Water use data for the City is presented in Table 2 and <br />Table 3 and Figure 2. These data were selected to reflect two distinct periods. <br />2000-2001 illustrates pre-drought conditions and initial implementation of <br />conservation measures. The 2003-2004 period includes the effects of both water <br />conservation and drought mitigation measures. The drought mitigation measures <br />included lawn-watering restrictions of2-3 days per week accompanied with time <br />limitations on watering days. The restrictions were less severe with time. In <br />addition to the City's water conservation and drought mitigation measures, <br />favorable weather and precipitation patterns influenced water usage, especially in <br />the summer months of2004. Total annual water use declined from 1,737 million <br />gallons to 1,388 million gallons over the 2000 to 2004 period, a decrease of <br />20.1 % or 349 million gallons. The decrease in use from 2000 to 2001 was 4.7%, <br />a savings of 83 million gallons. <br /> <br />5 <br />