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<br />- 1 - <br /> <br />c- <br /> <br />HB 05-1254 Grant Application to CWCB <br />Applicant: Douglas Cc:>>unty Water Resource Authority <br />100,000 Xeriscape Dvn Duplication and Distribution Project <br />September 29, 2006 <br /> <br />Reauest for $64.800 from CWCB Oocal contribution $57.300) <br /> <br />Contact: Mark Shively (303) 888-9782, markshivelvuv.mho.com <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />Project Overview <br /> <br />The Douglas County Water Resource Authority (DCWRA) consists <br />of Douglas County government, woridng in cooperation with the <br />large and small water providers from across the County who are <br />responsible for the development and management of water <br />resources to supply drinking water to nearfy two hundred eighty <br />thousand citizens in the South Metro Area. As an Authority, we <br />have been promoting water conservation and water use efficiency <br />within Douglas County for over a decade. The Board of the <br />Authority recently affinned that water resource conservation is the <br />primary principle of the Authority. Approximately eight thousand <br />rural well users, 30,000 people, are represented by Douglas County <br />in this project. <br /> <br />We recognize that outdoor water use constitutes a sizable <br />percentage of the County's overall water use - over 40 percent- <br />and we therefore recognize that the management of our citizen's <br />outdoor water use is one of the most important tools that we have to <br />manage overall water demand in the future. One of the most <br />powerful methods to reduce current, and future, outdoor watering <br />demands, without compromising the natural beauty of the Colorado <br />landscape can be done using Xeriscape as a planting and water use <br />alternative to bluegrass. <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />To this point, Douglas County Television DC-B has created a <br />Xeriscape DVD that has been used successfully to educate <br />indMdual property owners that have chosen to attend local water <br />conservation workshops. Although local governments and special <br />districts have provided various incentives to individual homeowners <br />to attend these wor1<shops, screened the DVD on DC-8 television, <br />and streamed the DVD on the County's website, overall viewing of <br />the program material as a percentage of the population of the <br />County is quite low. Therefore, the DCWRA proposes in this grant <br />application to utilize Water Efficiency Grant funding to mass produce <br />and mail the Xeriscape DVD to all the single family residences in <br />