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<br />Water Conservation Planning Grant Application <br />City and County of Broomfield <br /> <br />The City of Broomfield adopted a local Water Conservation Plan in March 1996. The <br />City and County of Broomfield ("Broomfield") is requesting a Water Conservation <br />Planning Grant to improve and update its Water Conservation Plan. The Water <br />Conservation Plan will help promote meaningful water conservation programs <br />throughout Broomfield and achieve a long-term increase in the productive use of <br />Broomfield's water supply. <br /> <br />Broomfield qualifies as a "covered entity": a publicly owned entity with a legal <br />obligation to supply, distribute, or otherwise provide water at retail to domestic, <br />commercial, industrial, or public facility customers, and that has a current total annual <br />demand for such customers of twelve thousand acre-feet.l <br /> <br />Broomfield is located in the South Platte River Basin and shares in the water supply gap <br />of22% (by the year 2030) identified in Phase I of the Statewide Water Supply Initiative.2 <br />With a projected future growth rate of approximately 2.5%, Broomfield is considering <br />conservation and other alternatives for providing a sustainable water supply into the <br />future. <br /> <br />Broomfield is committed to water conservation and was one of 28 jurisdictions that <br />signed the Metro Mayors Caucus Memorandum of Understanding on Water Conservation <br />and Stewardship in January 2005. As evidenced by its ongoing commitment to reuse, <br />Broomfield's reuse irrigation system has been expanded over the last twelve months to <br />irrigate an additional 118 acres of parl( and median landscaping. The system now <br />services 1,766 acres. Plans are being developed to include an additional 502 acres in the <br />near future. In the City and County of Broomfield 2005 Comprehensive Plan, <br />Broomfield identified a goal to "Promote a shared environmental ethic that <br />strengthens our behavior to conserve resources.,,3 Several policies and action steps <br />were identified to encourage sustainable water conservation. During its Green <br />Broomfield Study Session held June 19,2007, City Council also created a "wish list" of <br />conservation opportunities to be investigated. Updating the Water Conservation Plan will <br />assist Broomfield in further identifying and implementing specific water conservation <br />goals. <br /> <br />1 Chapter XVII of Broomfield's Home Rule Charter reserves all municipal powers related to utilities <br />available to the City under the State Constitution and statutes. The City expressly reserved the right to <br />construct, lease, purchase, acquire, condemn or operate any public utility, work or way (917.1). The <br />Charter also requires the Council to establish, by ordinance, rates, rules, and regulations and extension <br />policies for services provided by City-owned utilities (917.3). Title 13 of the Municipal Code implements <br />these requirements for water and wastewater utilities. <br />2 Statewide Water Supply Initiative, Colorado Water Conservation Board, Nov. 2004, page ES-14, Figure <br />ES-8 <br />3 City and County of Broomfield 2005 Comprehensive Plan, Adopted October 25,2005, page 114 <br /> <br />Page 1 of 8 Broolnfield _ Conservation Plan App _10-17 -07 .doc <br />