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COMMISSION AGENDA
ITI~M
302
CONSENT
INFORMATIONAL X
PUBLIC HEARING
REGULAR
January 26, 2004
Meeting
MGR ~IDEPT /~
Authorization
REQUEST: Utility Department Informing the City Commission on the Potable Water
Usage for 2003.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is to inform the City Commission on the potable
water usage for 2003 compared with prior years.
CONSIDERA TIONS:
The City Commission adopted a water restriction ordinance on February 26,2001.
The attached graph shows the impact of that ordinance on potable water usage. The
water consumption for 2003 was 348 million gallons less than the annual permitted
capacity. Prior to 2001 the annual usage exceeded the permitted capacity. The
Consumption Use Pennit was issued to the City in October 1996 and expires in October
2006. The graph shows the annual allotted increase in the permitted capacity by year
which increases each year by an average of2.6 %.
The first fi:mr (4) years of the permit, the city exceeded the annual permitted
capacity by a total of752 million gallons. Over the past three (3) years the city had a total
of 907 million gallons less than the permitted capacity.
ATTACHMENTS:
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Informational Agenda Item 302
January 26, 2004
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Annual Potable Water Use
Year Total Water Pumped CUP Permitted Capacity Annual Rain Fall
(Million Gallons) (Million Gallons) Inches
1997 1,693.0 1,507.5 68.92
1998 1,561.1 1,525.1 69.24
1999 1,573.5 1,550.4 59.90
2000 1,686.9 1,575.0 40.63
2001 1,430.3 1,598,7 72.02
2002 1,263.3 1,653.5 69.68
2003 1,371.0 1,719.2 67.97
COMMISSION ACTION: