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There is an overall Communications Plan which includes issues such as water quality, recycled water, customer services and other issues only indirectly related to water conservation and efficiency. The only portion of the Communications Plan included in this Tap-Smart Plan is the part about conservation. Audience for the Tap-Smart Plan This Plan is written for several diverse audiences, the most important of which is the Denver Board of Water Commissioners in fulfillment of their September 2005 directive. Additionally, the Plan is for use by Denver Water employees, Distributors, and stakeholders. In this current form with revised Tables and Appendices, this plan is intended to fulfill the requirement of Colorado HB-1365, also called C.R.S. 37-60-126. This law states that all entities which serve more than 2,000 acre-feet of water per year must file a Conservation Plan with the Colorado Water Conservation Board and then update the Plan at least every seven years. Therefore, this Tap-Smart Conservation Master Plan is submitted to the Office of Water Conservation and Drought Planning of the Colorado Water Conservation Board as required by law. Tap-Smart Conservation Goal In its 2002 Integrated Resource Plan, the Board set an overall system conservation goal of 165 gallons per capita per day (GCD) for all uses of treated water 1. This goal was to be achieved by build-out of Denver Water's Service Area, or by 2050. In 2005, the Board requested that staff develop an accelerated conservation plan for its consideration that would achieve the 165 GCD goal by 2016. To achieve the goal of 165 GCD, Denver Water's existing customers must reduce their use by a total of 39,000 acre-feet (AF) by 2016. Figure 1 shows one scenario to achieve 165 GCD. Staff assumed that 10,000 AF of permanent demand reductions was achieved during the drought through hardware and behavioral changes in water use. This Tap-Smart Plan can achieve up to 25,000 AF of demand reductions, which leaves 4,400 AF to be gained through other means such as conservation-oriented rates. The Tap-Smart Plan is flexible in that water reductions can be shifted to water rates and away from active conservation measures, thereby reducing the cost of the plan. That is, excessively costly or otherwise less appealing conservation measures can be cut from the Tap-Smart Plan. This is discussed further in this document. 1 Per capita, system-wide water use is simply a measurement of treated water deliveries made by Denver Water, divided by the population served. These figures take all uses of water into account including: residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and unaccounted for water. A separate calculation of single family per capita use (SFGCD) will be discussed later. 8