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<br />Tap-Smart: the Conservation Master Plan <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />'U,I <br /> <br />Introduction to Tap-Smart <br /> <br />In September, 2005, the Denver Water Board requested from staff a plan that <br />would accelerate the accomplishment of its 2050 conservation goal to 2016. <br />Appendix A contains the text of the Board's Resolution. On March 22, 2006, staff <br />presented its first draft of the updated Conservation Plan to the Board. There <br />were several questions and issues raised by the Board at that meeting. Staff did <br />further research, revised estimates, and presented a new plan On May 24, 2006. <br />Over the months since then, even more revisions have been made, including <br />naming this plan "Tap-Smart." This document describes the new Tap-Smart <br />Plan. <br /> <br />The relevant sections of the March 2006 draft Plan submitted to the Board are <br />attached to this document as Appendices B, C, and D. Those pages describe <br />the two-year process of researching the universe of conservation methods, <br />filtering the 480 possible measures down to the most predictably effective ones, <br />estimating costs for labor and materials, and comparing those to the goal stated <br />by the Board. <br /> <br />In addition to answering many of the Board's questions, staff uncovered even <br />more issues and concerns. Current events such as the probability of recurring <br />drought, climate change, population growth, and changing economic events will <br />raise even more questions in the future. Therefore, this master Plan will be <br />updated at least every five years, and the annual plan and budget will be <br />scrutinized by the Board and staff very carefully to make sure everything is on <br />track to achieve the goal. <br /> <br />What This Plan is NOT <br /> <br />The Tap-Smart Plan is not a full Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) although items <br />in the 2002 IRP form the basis of goals and measures in this Tap-Smart Plan. <br />Neither is this document a Drought Response Plan. Both of those documents <br />already exist and are related to this Plan but not part of it. Denver Water Board <br />and staff fully understand that the only reasonable model for preparing for the <br />future is to look at all the options (the IRP and its revisions) and prepare for water <br />shortage emergencies (the Drought Response Plan of 2004). These documents <br />are available on request from Denver Water. <br /> <br />There is also a separate plan for dealing with non-drought emergencies and <br />none of that Plan is included here. The Crisis Communications Plan is handled <br />by the Manager of Community Relations. If demand-reduction measures are <br />needed during a crisis, Conservation Section staff will be assigned to assist as <br />needed, but those crisis-response measures are not addressed here. <br /> <br />7 <br />