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<br />necessary future supplies may result in increased costs or the supplies <br />not being available later. <br /> <br />. Increasing water use efficiency under normal conditions may make <br />additional water savings during a drought more difficult to achieve. <br /> <br />. .. Increasing water use efficiency results in less water and wastewater <br />revenue for the City's utility, which can .create cash flow problems and the <br />need to increase rates. <br /> <br />. Water savings from conservation measures must be monitored over a <br />long time period to ensure that the water savings are permanent. <br /> <br />III. INVENTORY OF EXISTING MEASURES <br /> <br />A. Westminster Water and Wastewater Utility <br /> <br />Westminster receives 70% of its water supply from Clear Creek, 17% from <br />Moffat Tunnel raw water contracts with the Denver Water Board and 13% as <br />treated water from the City of Thornton. Raw water from Clear Creek and the <br />Moffat Tunnel are stored in Standley Lake, a 43,000 AF storage reservoir that is <br />shared with .the Farmers' Reservoir and Irrigation Company (FRICO) and the <br />Cities of Northglenn and Thornton. Westminster has storage rights of 21,000 AF <br />or nearly one-half of the total storage in Standley Lake. <br /> <br />Raw water is treated at the City's two water treatment plants (WTP) , the Semper <br />WTP with a peak treatment capacity of 44 million gallons per day (MGD) and the <br />England WTP with a peak capacity of 6 MGD. Treated water storage is 23 <br />million gallons. '<, <br /> <br />Wastewater is treated at the Big Dry Creek Water Reclamation Facility which is <br />currently under expansion from an existing capacity of 5.5 MGD to 7.5 MGD. In <br />addition, a portion of the City's wastewater (from the south side of the City in the <br />Little Dry Creek basin) is sent to the Metro Denver Wastewater Reclamation <br />District for treatment. <br /> <br />B. Water and Wastewater Rates and Tap Fees <br /> <br />Water rates for single family detached residential customers are set on an <br />increasing block water conservation rate: <br /> <br />$1.65 per 1,000 gallons for 0 to 4,000 galions <br />$2.50 per 1,000 gallons for 5 to 25,000 gallons <br />$3.99 per 1,000 gallons for greater than 25,000 gallons. <br /> <br />The graph below illustrates the average cost per thousand gallons of <br />Westminster's treated water using .the rates listed above~ The average cost <br />increases with increased usage, thus providing an incentive to conserve water. <br /> <br />3 <br />