Silt Can Save Education Application

• Project Type: Ag/Muni Grant
• Contract/PO #: C153615
• Applicant: Town of Silt
• Project Name: Silt Can Save Water Conservation Education Project
• Title: Grant Application
• Date: 1/30/1992
• County: San Miguel
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Application

6. Description of innovative features and benefits derived

Rather than convert to nev toilets vhich contributes to
landfill, the never, most efficient, and most inexpensive equip-
ment has been sought. Equipment is user friendly and requires no
maintenance. Silt feels this project design is innovative for
communities its size, as the entire tovn can be used as the
target group rather than a section of it. Results are readily
usable to the tovn as the entire community is participating.
As for benefits, some of them have already been mentioned; a
high level of conservation education; longevity of vater plant;
reduced vater usage at the head of the Colorado River; and final-
ly efficient planning and statistical accumulation to determine
future trends.
It is important to knov there is no direct financial savings
to users in Silt. Minimum usage in Silt is high enough that
conservation viII not lover there bills for ~ time, if at all.
This is vhy the free packet structure has been chosen.
The direct benefit to the Tovn from conservation
the form of education and direct involvement in future
about vater.

comes in
concerns

7. List of all agency participants in project planning/implemen-
tation

This project deals vith Silt directly, for a specific rea-
son. Silt is the first to dray vater from the Colorado River. It
also does not have a vater shortage, so it is important to begin
exploring vays of insuring this abundance. At the same time there
is a need to stress that vater is an issue that goes far beyond
Silt and the area around it. Conservation is a form of self
regulation, and such regulation viII be effective if done vithin
the community rather than coming from outside. Changing the focus
of the region around Silt by changing Silt viII connect the area
to concerns being raised throughout the nation before it is
imposed as a federal/state mandate.

8. Estimated time of Droiect comDletion

If the project is funded, purchase orders vould be made
immediately. It is hoped that packets vould be ready by September
of 1992, Silts 3rd quarter billing.
Packets vould be distributed from September 1992 through
November of 1992. At that point data collection vould officially
begin.
If funding is available earlier, the vhole process can
easily begin three months earlier than planned. This planning
involves grant processing time as veIl as timing for the tovn.
Summer months are heavy use months and typically the most busy
for the tovn. By starting in the fall, distribution and data
processing viII be more effective.

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