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<br />, <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />i. <br />., <br /> <br />Pilot Demonstration Grants <br /> <br /> <br />Highlights <br /> <br />Loveland: 580 residential <br />water audits result in <br />estimated savings of <br />19,9% <br /> <br />La Salle: Study showed <br />that fescue used 23, 5% to <br />. 38% .less water than <br />bluegrass <br /> <br />Gillcrest: 256 homes <br />retrofitted with water <br />savings of 25%, <br />wastewater reduction of <br />22% <br /> <br />Carbondale: 98 homes <br />retrofitted, estimated <br />savings of 17% <br /> <br />Wiggins: 100 meters <br />installed and established <br />new billing procedure <br />base on usage <br /> <br />Yuma: Developed water <br />and energy saving <br />programs resulting in <br />actual water savings of <br />4,904 acre-feet in 1996 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Incentive grants were authorized in the amount of <br />$500,000 from the CWCB Construction Fund for a pilot program <br />demonstrating the benefits of municipal water efficiency measures <br />through incentive grants that cannot exceed $50,000 to anyone <br />public agency requesting assistance in the design and <br />implementation of pilot water efficiency and conservation <br />measures, <br /> <br />Criteria were approved municipal grants by the CWCB <br />members and funds were approved for projects in 1992 and 1993, <br />Remaining funds, limited to $5,000 maximum block grants were <br />approved by the Board in 1997, <br /> <br />In 1994,8B 92-87 authorized $500,000 for 50% cost- <br />sharing with agricultural and multipurpose water system <br />demonstration projects, with a maximum amount of $100,000 <br />available to anyone project. <br /> <br />Grant figures are as follows: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Grant Year No, of Amount Amount <br /> Applicants Requested Awarded. <br />1992 63 2,0 million $180,477 <br />Municipal <br />1993 64 2,1 million $276,228 <br />Municipal <br />1993 28 1.5 million $189,990 <br />AglMulti <br />Purpose <br />1994 47 2,0 million $241,501 <br />AglMulti <br />Purpose <br />1997 Block 21 100,000 $29,020 <br />Grants <br />Totals 223 7.7 million $919,216 <br /> <br />Grant distribution represented diverse geographic regions . <br />of the state. Water providers located in 24 different counties <br />received grants through 1997, <br />