Loveland Indoor Retrofit Final Report

• Project Type: Ag/Muni Grant
• Contract/PO #: C153622
• Applicant: City of Loveland
• Project Name: Indoor Water Use Assessment and Retrofit Project
• Title: Indoor Water Use Assessment & Retrofit Project Final Report
• Date: 11/1/1994
• County: Larimer
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Final Report

Question 6: Was the packet of information heipful?
351 (87%) Yes
17 (4%) No
35 (9%) No response

Customer comments from the survey:
The audit was very beneficial for us. I'm very pleased with the fixtures and it 's
nice to see our bill go down some.

In our ever-increasing need to make people aware of conserving water, I think
the efforts of the program were well worth the time and money.

The auditor just installed the devices, did not explain. He seemed to be in a
hurry and hardly talked at all.

This is an excellent service to save water and money. All homes and businesses
should have this done.

My appointment was for a Saturday afternoon. I was home but the auditor
never showed up or called.

Auditor was very professional and informative.

Thank you for offering the program. Our water use has been consistently down
25 - 30 percent.

I was disappointed because none of the fixtures would work in myoid house.

Project Analysis

The initial analysis was of the households that participated in the audit project. From
these results, the water savings for Loveland's population in general were estimated.

Audit group results

Each household's average daily water consumption for the winter quarter was calculated
for 1992 and 1993. Winter quarter water use is the water use recorded on January, Febru-
ary and March bills and is assumed to be indoor water use. Homes in which the name on
the account had changed since the audit project were excluded from the analysis. This re-
quirement left 520 out of the original 591 residences that were included in the analysis.
These 520 households are referred to as the audit group. A year after installation of the
devices, indoor water use for the 520 households had:
Decreased. . 412 (79%)
Increased . . . . . . .95 (18%)
Not changed . . . . . 13 ( 3%)

Average indoor water use for the audit group decreased 47.1 gallons per household per
day a year after the retrofit devices were installed. That means a 19.9 percent decrease;
from 236.6 gallons per tap per day in 1992 to 189.5 gallons per tap per day in 1993. As-
suming that indoor water use is the same year-round, indoor water use for the audit group
could decrease 8.94 million gallons annually. Table 5 shows pre-audit and post-audit

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