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apply to the entire Town water system including the Peak Seven water system. The data for that system will not be incorporated in this report due to its small size and independent operation. The service area extends downstream to the High School at the Blue River inlet to Dillon Reservoir. The Tarn facility presently serves approximately 9130 single-family equivalents (SFEs), according to finance department records. This is about 78% of build-out The January 1998 Water Master Plan projects build-out to be reached approximately in 2015. Recent updates estimate that build-out will be approximately 11,680 SFEs. However, the Summit County Upper Blue Master Plan has set a goal of striving toward 75% of build-out to preserve quality of life, to reduce congestion, and to conserve resources including water. Many of the developments that are served by Town water have been approved at less than planned density. The Goose Pasture Tarn Reservoir and the associated water rights, augmentation plans, and treatment capacity have the capacity to serve 104% of the projected build-out during a dry year in the winter at peak population. The municipal golf course irrigation water and the ski area snowmaking water are provided directly from untreated river sources downstream of the Town's drinking water treatment plant All the parks in Town are watered with treated water. Water use efficiency is important to Breckenridge to help with dry years, to reduce peak demands, to reduce the wastewater plant hydraulic load, and to provide density for affordable housing projects. Section 2. Inventory 2.1 Water Supply Sources/Storage Treated water for the Town is provided from the treatment facility at the Goose Pasture Tarn Reservoir. Influent and effluent at the facility is metered. Currently the facility serves a permanent year round population of about 4,800 and a peak day transient population of about 37,000. The total peak day population served is about 42,000. The average daily transient population served is about 19,000 and the total average daily population served is about 23,800. Currently there are about 3,600 metered customer accounts. There are no master meter sales to special districts. All of the water mains that serve all 3,600 accounts are maintained and owned by the Town. Metered sales in 2001 were about 1815 acre-feet, in 2002 about 2080 acre-feet, and in 2003 about 2090 acre-feet Unaccounted for uses and losses (leaks) are estimated to be about 8% based on the audit done for the first two months of 2004. The audit compared total facility production to total metered sales. The current production water demand per SFE is about 0.25 acre-feet per year. The 10- year average of the daily service equivalent annual average is 276 gallons per day. The annual average per capita use is about 79 gallons per day.