Centennial WSD 1996 WCPlan

• Project Type: Water Conservation Plan
• Project Name: Centennial Water & Sanitation District Water Conservation Plan
• Title: Water Management Study
• Date: 8/10/1995
• County: Arapahoe
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Complete Plan

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CHAPTER 5

URBAN WATER CONSERVATION

This chapter describes the development process for an expanded water conservation
program for Highlands Ranch. It includes:

· The conservation program pUIpOse and goals
· A description of current conservation measures
· A review of the recently completed public survey
· The screening process for designing specific conservation. measures
· A description of conservation measures selected for further evaluation

In Chapter 7, the selected measures will be evaluated on the basis of benefit/cost ratios,
ease of implementation, and other non-monetary factors. A fmal list of measures will be
selected and further developed to become part of an overall water management plan outlined in
Chapter 8.

PURPOSE AND GOALS

The purpose of expanding the District's conservation program is to;

· Reduce future District operating costs.
· Reduce cost and environmental impacts of new water supplies.
· Reduce unit wastewater flows.
· Meet the requirements of the Colorado Conservation Act.

Specific goals of the program are to;

· Increase public awareness of methods to use water more efficiently.

.... R.educe-watet use by. fte\\' customers in -tlie residential, .public, and private

sectors.

· Reduce in home and other sanitary based internal water usage to lower
wastewater flows.

· Develop a database to establish current use, provide better demand
predications, and allow measurement of future conservation impact.

· Review and establish better methods of accounting for current usage and
reducing the unaccounted percentage of water demand.

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