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<br /> <br />Public Information <br /> <br />Evergreen Metropolitan District plans to promote water conservation and other resource <br />efficiencies in a public awareness program aimed at the grade school leveL The District <br />distributes public information through bill inserts, brochures, community speakers, and many <br />special events every year, Water bills were redesigned to show gallons used per day for the last <br />billing period compared to the same period the previous year, <br /> <br />The District has formed a Drought Response Committee to assist in developing new ways to <br />communicate with the public and the media about water conservation and other resource issues, <br /> <br />School Education <br /> <br />The District continues to work with the school district to promote water conservation and other <br />resource efficiencies at school facilities and to educate students about these issues, As part of the <br />commercial! industrial! institutional water conservation programs, the District is open to new <br />ideas coming from any of these sectors that would help spread information regarding water <br />conservation, such as school science projects, school presentations, and informational posters, <br /> <br />District Water Rates <br /> <br />The District's water rates are based on an inclining rate that gets progressively higher the more <br />water the customer uses, The District initiated this water rate in 1995 in an attempt to provide <br />an economic disincentive to high water use and water waste, The introduction of this water rate <br />in 1995 has significantly lowered water demand during the summer's peak use period, <br />In the June of 2002 the District enacted the first drought penalty rate, This rate was used to offer <br />the strongest of disincentives toward the use of excessive outside irrigation water. The rate was <br />in addition to the District's already higher rate for water use over 14,000 gallons per month, <br /> <br />Base rate per equivalent tap - $16,00 per month, <br />Cost per 1000 gallons - 1 K through 9 K -------$2,50 <br />Cost per 1000 gallons - 10 K through 14 K ----$3,00 <br />Cost per 1000 gallons -15 K & higher ----------$7,00 <br />Drought Penalty Rate per 1000 gallons - 15 K & higher ---------$15,00 <br />(Drought Penalty Rate is only on an as needed basis) <br /> <br />Sale of Irrigation-Only Taps <br /> <br />The program has allowed the District to get a better handle on the number of customers who <br />actually irrigate, Irrigation-only taps are sold on the premise that these customers are sold water <br />as long as the District is having an average to good water year; however, in a drought or dry <br />year, their use will be curtailed or discontinued first. <br /> <br />Ultra Low Flush Toilets and Shower Head Replacement <br /> <br />The District encourages its customers, as a part of its public information program on <br />conservation, to replace these fixtures with low-water-use fixtures whenever possible, The <br />District is considering a financial incentive to promote more optional replacement; however, this <br />policy has not been implemented, <br /> <br />21 <br />