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<br />", <br /> <br />, <br />'. <br /> <br />PART 2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br /> <br />2.1 SUMMARY DESCRIPTION <br />The City of steamboat springs seeks grant <br />timely, highly visible, comprehensive, <br />conservation project, which includes three <br /> <br />funding to implement a <br />and aggressive water <br />components: <br /> <br />1. Indoor Plumbinq Retrofit proiect: In conjunction with Northwest <br />Colorado Council of Governments project, Steamboat Springs will be <br />the site for installing, monitoring, and evaluating water <br />conservation of indoor plumbing retrofit in hotels and lodges. The <br />project will develop two spreadsheets. One will be used as a <br />planning tool for individual residential and commercial customers; <br />the other will be used as a planning tool for identifying overall <br />system savings and efficiencies. <br /> <br />2. Public Open Space proiect: In a typical community, fifty percent <br />of residential water use is for outdoors and landscapes. In a <br />mountain resort community it is likely that a higher percentage of <br />water use is for landscaped space since a very high priority is <br />placed on landscaping residences, commercial development, golf <br />courses, and publ ic open space, incl uding medians, parks, and <br />streetscapes. The City proposes to provide a model for prudent <br />water usage in outdoor environments in a demonstration project in <br />its highly visible Howelsen Park complex, which consists of a <br />variety of ball fields, a rodeo ground, and a small ski area <br />including the historic Howelsen Hill ski jumps. The complex <br />utilizes approximately 15 million gallons of treated water <br />annually for irrigation and snowmaking purposes. Howelsen Park <br />serves over 500,000 visitors per year. <br /> <br />A. The project will complete conversion of irrigation and snow- <br />making systems Howelsen Park from treated water to raw water <br />pumped from the Yampa River. The pumping system, snowmaking <br />system, and most of the irrigation system was constructed in <br />1991 at a cost of $130,000. In summer 1992 the final <br />connections for the irrigation system will be installed at a <br />cost of $5,000. <br /> <br />This component of the project meets broad water conservation, <br />environmental, and economic Objectives. It aids in delaying <br />water treatment plant expansion and avoids the operational <br />cost of treating water. From an environmental perspective the <br />raw water will be diverted from the Yampa River rather than <br />Fish Creek, a small tributary with critically low late-summer <br />and winter flows. <br /> <br />B. The Howelsen Park Xeriscape Garden/Playground project will <br />provide a functional, aesthetic, and highly visible <br />demonstration of the seven principles of xeriscape, as <br />identified by the Denver Water Board (1991), adapted for the <br />rigorous climate and unique needs which characterize <br /> <br />1 <br />