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Section 3 <br />Summary of Past and Current Water Conservation Activities <br />The City has implemented various levels and types of water conservation measures <br />and programs over the last 12 years beginning in 1995 with outdoor watering <br />restrictions that limited irrigation to between 6 and 10 am and 5 and 10 pm. Late <br />night and early morning watering was discouraged so the water treatment plant <br />could be run to f ill the above ground storage tanks and in so doing reliably supply <br />peak hourly demands when sprinkler systems started up again at 6 am. The City <br />also had voluntary odd/ even address watering regulations in place in 1995. <br />Over the following 6 years, the City continued the voluntary odd/ even outdoor <br />watering program, and restricted outdoor irrigation from 10 am to 6 pm. In <br />addition, the City prepared and adopted their first Water Conservation Plan in 1997 <br />which encouraged residential and commercial customers to reduce irrigation <br />watering by 10 % . This plan f ormalized the odd/ even voluntary watering program <br />and the 10 am to 6 pm watering restrictions, and initiated various customer <br />educational programs (e.g., turf management seminars for parks and large <br />commercial customers, bill stuffers for all customers on water conservation). The <br />City also adopted a policy f or irrigation of City-owned land with non-potable water <br />and authorized rebate permit costs for automatic irrigation-system installations. <br />In the years that f ollowed, the City <br />continued to evolve its educational <br />efforts, increasing customer awareness <br />with door hangers, newspaper articles <br />and additional turf management and <br />Xeriscape seminars. The City also <br />began to participate in the Soil <br />Conservation Off ice's Children's <br />Water Festival. In 2001, the City <br />began a program of notifying its high <br />water bill customers of their water <br />use, as a technical service. <br />The City also initiated a meter <br />replacement program in 1999 to <br />replace all the customer water meters <br />over a five year period, replacing 800 <br />to 1,000 meters per year through 2005. <br />Table 3 -Summary of City's Water <br />Conservation Measures and Programs <br />Water Conservation Year(s) <br />Measures and Programs Implemented <br />Outdoor Watering <br />Voluntary Odds Even Watering 1995 - 2002 <br />Restriction of Day Time Watering 1995 -current <br />Mandatory Every Third Day Watering 2002 -current <br />Non-Potable Outdoor Watering of City 2002 -current <br />Parks and Facilities <br />Customer Education and Technical Assistance <br />Turf Management Seminars 1997 -1999 <br />Xeriscape Seminars 1999 - 2002 <br />Bill stuffers 1997 -current <br />Door Hangers 1998 -current <br />High Water Customer Notification 2001- current <br />Children's Water Festival 1999 <br />Residential Rebates 2007 <br />Leak Detection and Metering <br />Meter Replacement Program 1999 - 2004 <br />Leak Detection Program ongoing <br />Other <br />Inclined Block Rate Water Billing 2002- current <br />In response to the 2002 drought, the <br />City implemented every third day outdoor watering restrictions, prohibited outdoor <br />City of Brighton Water Conservation Plan 6 <br />