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ATTACHMENT 3 Scope of Services: Water Conservation Landscape Audit Program BAWUA members will complete an application to select the level of service they desire for their customers. Contractor will contact participating members to establish details of the service for different customers. Contractor must send a Service Confirmation Form to participating members prior to providing any service directly to customers. Participating members will have five days to reject service. Contractor must work closely with each participating member to ensure the work does not exceed that member's budget for the Program. Task 1. WATER USE BUDGETS California Urban Water Conservation Council's ("CUWCC") Best Management Practice Number 5 ("BMP 5") requires signatory water agencies to provide water use budgets to their customers with dedicated irrigation meters. A water use budget is an upper bound estimate of water use at a site given its landscape area and local weather conditions, among possible other factors (e.g., types of plants). Each billing period, customers are to receive notices comparing their water budgets with actual water consumption. Customers that are over budget should be able to lower their water consumption through improved irrigation system performance and management. Task 1.1. Inventory of Accounts For each participating member, contractor will obtain water use billing information over at least a 12-month period to identify candidates To receive water use budgets. Candidates will include all dedicated irrigation meters. Contractor will also collect information for all non-residential mixed-use accounts. This information will allow contractor to identify mixed-use water meters that may have significant outdoor irrigation. For each account, contractor will analyze the records and make a relational database link among accounts, sites, and customers. Some sites may have multiple meters. Some customers might have multiple sites. Contractor plans to make these relational distinctions to more effectively distribute water budgets. Contractor will rank the accounts/sites/customers by level of water use. In reviewing this data, contractor may recommend that some sites are too small to be cost-effectively included as part of this program. Task 1.2. Landscape Area Measurement The most challenging task of developing water budgets is obtaining accurate landscape area measurements. Contractor will estimate landscape areas using three approaches. A-I 961514.0 4