Evergreen MD 2003 WCPlan

• Project Type: Water Conservation Plan
• Project Name: Evergreen Metropolitan District Water & Wastewater Water Conservation Plan
• Title: Water Conservation Plan
• Date: 5/22/2003
• County: Jefferson
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Complete Plan

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EMD Water Shortage Response Team

The District will form a Water Shortage Response Team to be activated during times of
threatened water supply, The make-up ofthe Water Shortage Response Team will be determined
at the EMD Board Meeting held in December of each year, This Team will be established each
year for a period of one year and have a commitment of at least five individuals, one member of
the EMD Board and four members from the other water and sanitation districts and / or the
Evergreen Community at large at the discretion of the Evergreen Metro District Board, The
General Manager of the District will act as coordinator and point person for the Commitee along
with the District Operations Manager in order to provide continuity and facilitate District staff
interaction,

Members

General Manager - Coordinator
Operations Manager
One EMD Board Member
Four Members from Distributor Districts &/or Evergreen Community

The Water Shortage Response Team will be responsible for the development of priorities for use
of the available water during shortages, These priorities should be based on input from citizen
groups, other emergency response groups, and legal requirements set forth in the Colorado
Revised Statutes, The Evergreen Metro Board will give the Response Team limited authority to
implement this plan in a timely fashion and on an emergency basis,

Priority setting will evolve into possible water allocations that will be established for all
customers, A starting point allocation ranking system is as follows:

. Minimum health and safety allocations for interior residential needs (includes single family,
multi- family, hospitals and convalescent facilities, retirement and mobile home communities,
student housing, and firefighting and public safety);

. Commercial, industrial and institutional! governmental operations (where water is used for
manufacturing and for minimum health and safety allocations for employees and visitors), to
maintain jobs and economic base of the community (not for landscape uses);

. Permanent agriculture (orchards, vineyards, and other commercial agriculture which would
require at least five years to return to production);

. Ex~sting landscaping; and

. New customers, i.e" proposed projects without permits when shortage is declared,

During a drought situation, the Water Shortage Response Team will be contacted monthly, and
as the drought situation worsens, as often as needed, until the drought has lifted, The Response
Team will have the responsibility for the actual implementation of the drought conditions
responses, They will take the information provided them by the water department staff, and

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