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The project has been progressing using the water conservation plan development guidelines <br /> that are available from the CWCB and the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District <br /> BMP Tool Box, which is an online resource that the CWCB partially funded. <br /> To date the following tasks has been completed: <br /> • Project Communications—the project team has met numerous times to initiate the <br /> project, exchange data, and discuss the development of the draft water conservation <br /> plan. Meetings occurred in our offices in November 2015 and July 2016. <br /> • Final Draft Plan Development—A final draft of the water conservation plan has been <br /> developed for internal review and for presentation to City Council, within the intention <br /> to have the Final Draft made available for public review and comment. The Final Draft <br /> Plan includes: <br /> o Profiling the existing water system, ongoing water conservation activities and <br /> water use <br /> o Characterizing water use and demand forecasts <br /> o Profiling the proposed facilities and projects <br /> o Identifying conservation goals <br /> o Identifying and evaluating candidate water conservation measures and programs <br /> o Selecting water conservation measures and programs <br /> o Developing an implementation plan for the City's water conservation plan <br /> Staff has reviewed the Final Draft Plan and provided guidance and feedback regarding <br /> the Plan content and the issues that needed to be resolved to complete a Plan that is <br /> suitable for City Council and public review. <br /> • Project Administration—The project 50% and 75% progress reports have been <br /> prepared, as have regular invoicing to the City. <br /> Obstacles <br /> A number of obstacles were encountered during this first half of project execution; however, <br /> none are anticipated to impact final project completion, aside from delaying the final <br /> deliverables. Specifically, the data collection and analyses required to complete the first drafts <br /> of the two plans were delayed by a couple of months as billing and production data were <br /> gathered and verified. It was decided at our project team's November 2015 meeting that the <br /> Plan would be more robust if all data through the end of 2015 could be collected and included <br /> in the Plan. This delay was designed to improve the Plan's completeness. <br /> Through the process of collecting and analyzing the data from 2015, it was discovered that due <br /> to a change in billing software, which occurred in October of 2014, customer water use and <br /> number of customer connections were not measured and recorded in a manner that was <br /> consistent with these data collected prior to the billing software change. Due to the billing <br />