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WATER CONSERVATION PLAN 2008 <br />TABLE 14 <br />Summary of the City of Longmont's Ongoing and Planned Water Conservation Measures and Programs as Compared to the <br />Requirements of CRS 37 -60 -126 (4)(a) <br />Requirement <br />Current Program <br />Proposed Program <br />Public <br />The City currently utilizes bill inserts, <br />The City will continue these efforts and <br />education, <br />newsletters, advertisements, customer <br />plan to add indoor and outdoor commercial <br />customer <br />training seminars and youth education <br />audits, outdoor residential and irrigation <br />audits <br />programs to educate and engage its <br />account audits and customer water use <br />customers regarding water conservation <br />and landscaper training workshops. The <br />and water resources management. Create <br />City will also plan to increase K -12 <br />interpretive signs in parks and golf courses <br />educational efforts. <br />that tell the users both the water savings <br />and energy savings that are saved by the <br />City using raw water and following watering <br />restrictions. <br />Water rates <br />The City currently utilizes inclining block <br />The City plans to conduct water rate <br />structure and <br />rates for its residential customer accounts. It <br />studies every 3 to 5 years in the future. <br />billing systems <br />bills its customers monthly and includes <br />These rate studies will set rate increases <br />that encourage <br />billing inserts discussing water conservation. <br />for multiple years that follow. <br />water efficiency <br />Regulatory <br />The City currently has ordinances for <br />The City is planning to develop better <br />measures <br />landscape plan review and approval, which <br />inspection and enforcement practices <br />include Xeriscape provisions, water waste <br />related to its landscape and water waste <br />ordinance, voluntary watering restrictions, <br />ordinances. A recent example of this is the <br />and plumbing fixture requirements. <br />City's new requirement that all irrigation <br />plans for common open space areas in <br />residential are reviewed by City staff and <br />certified by the designer and installer that <br />they are designed and built to meet City <br />Standards which are written to minimize <br />the wasting of water. <br />Incentives <br />The City has residential indoor appliance <br />The City plans to continue its residential <br />including <br />rebates for ultra -low flow toilets, <br />rebate program and expand its rebates for <br />rebates <br />dishwashers and washing machines. The <br />commercial appliances and fixtures, and <br />City also has soil amendment rebates for <br />residential, commercial and irrigation <br />commercial and residential developers. <br />outdoor equipment. <br />40 <br />