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<br />2. Describe the methods you are proposing to monitor or track the change in water <br />use as a result of the projecI. Also briefly describe how you propose to evaluate <br />the project results and publicize the results in your area. <br /> <br />The City of Arvada Parks Department is 100% water metered and a very good <br />record of water use is readily available for the past six years. We would compare <br />results of water use prior to auditing a park with that of water use after one <br />growing season. Also, we would be able to use the last three year water use <br />history from billing records for any town home association in Arvada. <br /> <br />The City of Arvada would publish the results of its water conservation program <br />in local periodicals, including the Arvada Sentinel and the Arvada Report. In <br />addition, annual reports for wide distribution to landscape auditors would be <br />accomplished annually. Further, each trained agency would be requested to turn <br />in a yearly auditing report in February to the City of Arvada. These annual <br />reports would be compiled into a master report and sent to the State of Colorado <br />Board of Water Conservation in March. <br /> <br />3. We are interested in where you got the idea for your project. Please indicate <br />what research you have done or what resources you used in developing your <br />project idea. <br /> <br />In December 1988, I completed the training course in San ~bespo, <br />California for Master Landscape Water Auditor. I came back to Aivacfa with this <br />training and worked with our parks trying to find an easier way to accomplish a <br />water audit. I wrote a program using Lotus software that gives the person <br />responsible for programming the controllers a guide to the frequency times they <br />should be scheduling stations each month. I have been working with Professor <br />Robert Walker from Cal Poly who has been keeping up to date with what the <br />State of California Landscape Auditor Program has been doing. <br /> <br />I have been using the Master Auditor Training Manual and other water <br />conservation information prepared by MWCI and the American Water Works <br />Association to help develop my ideas. Also, Toro Manufacturing has some very <br />useful information that they have shared with me, for I was in class for the <br />Master Water Audit Training with two of their engineers who are responsible for <br />water management. <br /> <br />Page -2- <br />