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Water Supply Protection
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8430.500.60
Description
Denver Water
State
CO
Basin
South Platte
Date
9/15/2003
Author
USACOE/Denver Water
Title
MOFFAT Tunnel System Project Information Document / EIS
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<br />Conservation in Reducing Future Demands <br /> <br />It is important to note the role of conservation in reducing overall demands of Denver <br />Water's CSA. Conservation of water has been an integral part of Denver Water's <br />operations, and has reduced Denver Water's present day and build-out demands <br />significantly. <br /> <br />Denver Water focused its conservation efforts in the late I 970s on intensive public <br />education efforts that disseminated information to customers on how they could save <br />water. This part of Denver Water's conservation program remains in place today to <br />emphasize the importance of water conservation and to maintain conservation savings <br />that resulted from the public education programs. <br /> <br />During the Two Forks Reservoir permitting process, Denver Water adopted various <br />additional measures to promote conservation. The most significant of those measures <br />was to meter all remaining unmetered customers (approximately 87,000 customers), and <br />to institute new rate structures that would promote conservation by charging higher rates <br />as customer use increased. These additional measures have had a very pronounced effect <br />in lowering Denver Water's demand, <br /> <br />By 1996, when Denver Water completed its IRP, Denver Water had reduced overall <br />system demand by approximately 30,000 acre-feet. As of2000, future demand <br />projections reflect this 30,000 acre-foot reduction. In the IRP Denver Water integrated <br />these lower demand levels into its future resource planning, relying on a continuation of <br />these demand reductions in the future. These demand reductions are the product of <br />Denver Water's conservation programs since the 1980s, such as the gradual replacement <br />of less efficient plumbing fixtures in homes with more efficient plumbing fixtures. <br /> <br />Denver Water's current conservation programs have evolved to more incentive-based <br />measures that will promote future savings, building upon the progress of previous <br />conservation gains. Those programs are outlined in the Technical Appendix on <br />Conservation in the IRP update. These new conservation programs are aimed at <br />producing 29,000 acre-feet of additional conservation savings over the next fifty years. <br />About 16,000 acre-feet of this additional future conservation will be realized as part of <br />the near-term IRP water resources strategy. <br /> <br />Denver Water has reduced its future demand projections by 40,000 acre-feet to account <br />for natural replacement savings (gained through more efficient plumbing fixtures) that <br />Denver Water expects to see in the CSA over the next fifty years. At 2050, Denver <br />Water's demands will be approximately 100,000 acre- feet (or roughly 20 percent) below <br />the demand that would have occurred without conservation and natural replacement. The <br />demand line shown in Figure 5 incorporates all of the conservation savings described <br />above except the 29,000 acre-feet oflRP conservation savings. <br /> <br />15 <br />C:\Documents and Settings\vyp\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKI50\MoffatSysteml00603.doc <br />
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