Water Conservation / Supply Reconnaissance Study Part 1

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Table 1.1 Long List Water Conservation and Supply Alternatives Reservoirs 1 Build New Storage Facilities 2 Construct Equalizing Reservoirs 3 Enlarge/Dredge Existing Reservoirs 4 Evaporation Suppression 5 Reduce Reservoir Seepage Losses via Lining 6 Remove storage restrictions imposed by state and/or Federal agencies with responsibility for dam safety Water Conservation 7 Change from Schedule -Based Irrigation to Demand - Based Irrigation 8 City Parks Metering 9 Computerized Irrigation System Scheduling 10 Conservation Cropping Patterns 11 Conservation Plumbing Ordinance 12 Conservation Pricing 13 Conservation Pricing — Increase Block Rates /Summer Surcharge 14 Conversion to Sprinkler Irrigation 15 Deficit Irrigation Practices 16 Financial Incentives for Municipal Conservation 17 Financing of Water Saving Equipment 18 Hydrologic Instrumentation 19 Irrigation Efficiency Improvements 20 Irrigation Monitoring for Municipal Greenways 21 Landscape Advisor 22 Landscape Audits 23 Landscape Irrigation System Improvements 24 Landscape Restrictions for New Homes 25 Local Downstream Control Method for Irrigation Canal Systems 26 Low Demand Plumbing Fixtures 27 Low Water Use Landscape Design 28 Microclimate Modification 29 Outdoor Watering Restrictions 30 Pressure Reduction 31 Prohibitions on New Connections 32 Public Sector Audits and Management 33 Reduce Municipal Distribution System Leakage 34 Rehabilitate /Improve Conveyance Channels 35 Repair/Improve Water Control Structures 36 Restrictions on Specific Uses 37 Soil Modification for Water Conservation 38 System Wide Use Reduction and Water Audit 39 Tax Incentives /Subsidies 40 Universal Metering 41 Use of Drip Irrigation 42 Use of Low Energy Precision Application 43 Use of Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) Systems 44 Water Conservation Kits/Public Information/Demonstration Projects 45 Water Court Enforcement of Water Use Efficiency Goals 46 Water Use Consultations and Waste Minimization 47 Water Use Rationing Reuse 48 Commercial/Industrial Water Recycling 49 Pump -Back Arrangement for Return Flows 50 Relocation of Return Flows 51 Sewage Effluent for Cooling 52 Water Reuse Incentive Based Reductions in Agricultural Water Use 53 Acquisition and Dry-Up of Irrigated Lands 54 Drought Water Banking 55 Dry Year Leasing (Drought insurance) 56 Land Fallowing Program 57 Paying Power Interference Charges 58 Permanent Acquisition of Agricultural Water Supplies (not lands) 59 Temporary Leasing of Agricultural Water Supplies Groundwater 60 Conjunctive Use 61 Deep Aquifer Pumping 62 Development of Non - Tributary Groundwater Sources 63 Groundwater Allocation Management 64 Groundwater Recharge/Return Flow Project (similar to Tamarack) 65 Reduction of Groundwater Export (e.g. losses from Platte to Republican basin) Systems Integration and Management 66 Changes in Points of Diversion 67 Effluent Exchange Agreements 68 Link Existing Water Supply Systems 69 Modification of Reservoir Filling Sequences 70 Modified Flow Release Rules 71 Transbasin Diversions/Imports 72 Transfer of Storage Decrees 73 Water Rights Transfers or Exchanges Watershed Management 74 Forest Management 75 Phreatophyte Control 76 Snowpack Management via Vegetative Shading 77 Weather Modification • [7--j •