Centennial WSD 1996 WCPlan Implmtn Plan

• Project Type: Water Conservation Plan
• Project Name: Centennial Water & Sanitation District Water Conservation Plan
• Title: WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
• County: Arapahoe
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Implementation Plan

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CHAPTER 8

WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN IMPLEMENTATION

This chapter serves to describe how conservation and water use efficiency planning has
been part of the overall District's water management planning effort and provides an
implementation plan and preliminary schedule for the recommended conservation measures.

CONSERVATION AND WATER MANAGEMENT PLANNING

The Centennial Water and Sanitation District has utilized reCognized conservation
measures as part of their water management planning for years. With the advent of better
software systems and data collection techniques, the District has begun to isolate data on the
water use practices of the various customer classifications. This data will provide a basis for
the determining the real impacts of conservation on water use behavior. Through the use of
pilot programs, the District will be able to determine the responsiveness of the public to specific
measures. From this information, future planning efforts will be able to account for the
component of future supply that will be mitigated by expanding traditional conservation practices
or demand management.

In addition to typical conservation planning, the District has applied innovative supply
management techniques to their water management program, including an augmentation plan and
the use of nonpotable water for open space irrigation. They are continuing to investigate the
feasibility of expanding these efforts. Also, the District is developing groundwater models to
determine the effectiveness of using aquifer storage recovery as an alternative to development
of new supplies and surface water storage reservoirs.

The District will be integrating their fmdings on all of these techniques as part of the
overall water management program. In addition, these measures will also be evaluated by the
District for their positive impacts on the wastewater program. As such, efficiency planning has
bee.!1, and _will.J<ontinue_ to 1>~, _an increa.s.mgly_ impQrtan.Jpart. of .1he...Distrlct's.. water .supply,
water demand and wastewater management programs.

Conservation Measure Implementation

The following section concludes this report by providing a target implementation schedule
for the new conservation measures that will be phased into the District's ongoing conservation
and water management efforts. A committee comprised of District personnel will set specific
time frames and budget requirements for the following programs.

Public Education Program. Perhaps the most important measure of the District's
conservation program is an enhanced public education program. While ongoing efforts have
been underway since 1987, the District proposes to hire a water resource engineer that will assist
with the overall conservation and water management efforts. In addition, they plan to upgrade
educational efforts on an ongoing basis.

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