BOARD01670

• Board Meeting Date: 7/28/2003
• Description: CDP Section - Technical Assistance to Covered Entities
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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a e : ercentage 0 ater se every tlpacte JY ater onservation P anrung
Summary of Water UselDelivery Impacted bv Conservation Planning
I Number of Entities I Percent of Water"
Existing Plans
> 2,000 acre-feet 56 46%
> 1,500 acre-feet 58 46.2%
Non-Participating Municipalities
> 2,000 acre-feet 10 5.2%
> 1,500 acre-feet 23 6.4%
> 1,000 acre-feet 36 7.2%
Non-Participating Special Districts"
> 2,000 acre-feet >7 0.9%
> 1,500 acre-feet >13 1.5%
> 1,000 acre-feet >21 2.0%

'Percent of water based on non-irrigation and non-storage deliveries from Cumulative Yearly Statistics of the Colorado
Division of Water Resources, 2001
~Excludes over 200 special districts that do not have population or use data available

Summary of Interviews with Municipal Water Planners
To complement the review of existing water conservation plans, to gain insight into water
conservation planning needs of water providers across the state, and to develop an
understanding of what entities have done with respect to water conservation planning since the
mid-1990s when most plans were written, five entities were called and briefly interviewed.
Respondents included three Front Range communities, one from south central Colorado, and
one from the central mountains. Key questions were asked about:

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What water conservation methods do you currently use and how did you select them?
How much, roughly, did it cost you to develop and to implement your plan?
Do you monitor the benefits/impacts of your city's/ district's water conservation efforts and
if so, how do you measure effectiveness of conservation efforts?
How would you use State resources to aid in water conservation planning if they were
made available?
Do you have any specific issues regarding water conservation planning that you would like
to share?

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Please see Appendix D for the interview script, questions and notes from respondents in this
focus group. Highlights of these findings are presented here.

. Current water conservation methods used by the five interviewed entities range from a
program of lawn watering restrictions and voluntary use reduction to comprehensive
programs that include metering, tiered rate structures, lawn watering restrictions, education
and outreach programs, leak detection, rebates, demonstration gardens, and other
measures.
. The selection of conservation methods were based on various methods including potential
water savings and benefit-cost ratio analyses and the application of an on-going learning

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