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<br />Feasibility Report for Improvement of Paonia's Water Supply System <br />Town of Paonia <br />April 21, 2000 <br /> <br />4. WATER DEMAND PROJECTIONS <br /> <br />4.1 Existing Demands <br /> <br />Description of Service Area <br /> <br />Paonia's water system service area includes all the incorporated lands within the Town and a <br />considerable amount ofland outside the Town boundaries. In some cases, customers outside the <br />Town are served directly through individual meters, In other cases, th~yares~;"ed by private <br />pipeline companies that receive their water supply from ,the Town;thr6ugh master meter <br />. . . <br />arrangements, Figure 4.1 depicts the service area ofthePaol1ia Wate(.~~s,te~~; <br />~':;":S~'f.'~';;'~i~:,~ ,~" <br /> <br />Existing Water Supply Demands <br /> <br />'d .;' .,' ';'~i.{;:~~~:~Y';~::'" <br />-,r': .~ ,-'~'. -:....,. <br />BBC Research & Consulting (BBC) prepared the water demand projections for this study, BBC <br />examined 1999 economic and demographic conditions in the:~ater service area, Census data <br />and information compiled by the Colorado Division of Local Goyemments were also reviewed <br />by BBC, Key findings from this research are: . . 'i;t,,:. <br />.r'- <br />'-'.',"",:..' <br /> <br />. Town population (1999) '. .,~: = 1,750 <br />. Water service area population (1999) '2,825 <br />. Town households (1999)' 730 <br />. Water service area households (1999) = 1,130 <br />. Age and gender distribution in Paonia is very similar to Delta County overall. <br />. There is a smalle(proportiop. of very low and very high income households in <br />, Paonia than there-st of the county, .} <br />j;. ~n - . . -. . .' <br />.tj~J::ompare.d to D~~~ County Jls a whole, mining employs a much larger share of <br />~~~tIPa~p'ia re~identsCf3 percent) and agriculture employs a much smaller share of <br />'Si:J'Town reSIdents (3 percent). <br />f.t~~,S': c~\~l,:>, "~;~ . ,:";.;~:.,_ ,/ <br />While portiq,n,.softii;?'rown wate~"~ystem have been metered for many years, the downtown <br />.'j'~'" ,_ '. ,._"T_. . <br />businessdismct has omy been fully metered since the beginning of 1998, To evaluate current <br />,,'&., -" ,-,,- <br />metert?g"water demands, BBq teviewed monthly billing records for 1998 and 1999, The <br />analysE; of the billing records was compared with treated water production data from the Town's <br />tw9':1ieatment plants, The difference between metered demand (or demand at the tap) and total <br />P~9~!I.ction is termed un~ccounted water. Unaccounted water may include leaks, water use for <br />"'.\;'." <br />fi.ridighting, and other unmetered water usage, <br />:;k'lr,..I'':''''', ,c, <br />1~;tJlWfi"o;lFigIl;e 4.2, the estimated 1999 annual metered water demand for the water system <br />-.., , ',~, ~ <br />is approximately 127 million gallons, or about 390 acre-feet per year, Monthly water demands <br /> <br />J:\PROJECTS\99368\ReporuIFcasibililY.Wpd <br /> <br />4-1 <br /> <br />fIR GEl Consultants, Inc. <br />