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construction and engineering costs of the recommended alternative can potentially qualify for state <br />funding under the Colorado Water Conservation Board's — Construction Fund Program. <br />Louisville <br />Doug Short is now the director of Public Works for the city of Louisville. While he was a <br />manager for California's Belmont County Water District in the early 1990's he was apart of the districts <br />development and adoption of a "Water shortage Contingency" plan. Elements of this plan were <br />coordinated planning by involving the public, projecting water demand, inventorying water supply, <br />developing stages of action and consumption limits, developing a water wasting ordinance, developing <br />excessive use charges, analysis of revenue and expenditure impact, implementation, and water use <br />monitoring procedures. <br />The basic premise of this plan was to develop consumption limits for indoor and outdoor use for <br />the different water users and allot water by certain criteria. Users conserving water were allowed the <br />opportunity to bank water through the system. Similarly excessive water users paid an increasing rate for <br />units used. The "water wasting" ordinance made provisions to not allow customers to buy their way out <br />of rationing with the threat of installing water flow restrictors. According to Doug Short the program was <br />a success and promoted sound water use at many levels. Dough Short also plans to propose that the City <br />of Louisville develop new water billing software. Various water billing software is out there but is often <br />rigid not allowing the creativity needed to conserve and apportion water in times water shortage. <br />Greeley <br />Greeley has adopted a drought response plan where the plan administrator determines reservoir storage <br />levels for the upcoming year, can change trigger levels and presents to the board projected storage for the <br />following April 1 St . The plan administrator utilizes four trigger levels and a storage reporting form. <br />Reservoir target storage is 80 %, 60 %, 40% and 20% of average. Their forecasting indicators are the <br />Colorado River Basin Surface Water Supply Index (SWSI) below —0.3, South Platte River Basin SWSI <br />below 2.1, Big Thompson River Basin snow pack below 75 %. <br />Greeley has three levels of drought policies that include suspending leases of water, voluntary water <br />conservation, voluntary interruptible supply plans, public information program, and every other day and <br />time lawn watering restrictions with penalties for non - compliance. <br />Greeley drought monitoring and response steps are as follows. 1) annual Calculation of Drought storage <br />trigger levels 2) calculation of projected April 1 St storage level 3) notify director and board when April 1 St <br />storage projection is below drought trigger levels 4) notify director/board of critical water lease requests <br />which will trigger drought policies 5) director /staff report circumstances and recommendation for <br />implementation of drought policies 6) decision by board on adopting drought policies 70 city emergency <br />plan may be invoked if level 3 or 4 policies are implemented 8) monthly report on water supply 9) <br />decision by board to rescind drought policies 10) updating drought emergency plan. <br />5 <br />