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Ta~sk 1.4. Water Budget Distribution <br /> <br />BMP 5 states that agencies are to provide notices each billing cycle showing the <br />relationship between the water budget and actual consumption. Contractor will create <br />and disWibute a one-page water use budget each billing cycle to each site in the program. <br />The water budget will have three components. The £xrst component will compare <br />historical water use to the water use budget for at least the prior 12 months via a graph. <br />The second component will calculate and show how much money the site could save if <br />they watered efficiently, using each agency's rate structure. The third component will <br />provide additional information to promote other landscape programs such as water <br />surveys and financial incentives, and could provide advice such as reminding customers <br />to decrease irrigation run times in the fall. <br /> <br />This approach will allow the contractor to distribute water use budgets for a single site to <br />multiple parties, including participating members. This is an important and key point to <br />making water use budgets effective. In many cases, water inefficiency occurs at <br />landscape sites because of the separation between the bill payer and the person <br />responsible for adjusting the irrigation schedule. The real value of water budgets is to <br />bring more accountability and communication to the situation. Contractor will do this by <br />offering to send copies of the water budget to all parties identified through the <br />mail/telephone' contacts described in Task 1.2. There is an additional cost for every <br />contact per site who will receive a water use budget. <br /> <br />Task 1.5. Monitoring and Tracking Data <br /> <br />BMP 5 requires submission of basic summary data to the CUWCC regarding the water <br />budget program. The summary data must include the number of dedicated irrigation <br />meters, the number of dedicated irrigation meters with water budgets, the aggregate water <br />use over all dedicated irrigation meters, and the aggregate budgeted water use over all <br />dedicated irrigation meters. <br /> <br />Contractor will provide an annual summary of the information required by CUWCC for <br />each participating member. Contractor will also provide BAWUA with a summary of <br />key data each month as part of our invoice process. The monthly invoicing data will also <br />be broken out by participating member. BAWUA could share this information with <br />interested members as needed. <br /> <br />Task 2. WATER USE SURVEYS <br /> <br />A landscape water use survey consists of sending trained staff to landscape sites to <br />measure and recommend ways to improve both the technical performance and the <br />management of irrigation systems. Water surveys are sometimes referred to as water <br />audits, irrigation performance tests, and landscape water use analyses, among other <br />terms. <br /> <br />According to BMP 5, a water survey includes the following five basic elements: <br /> <br /> A-3 <br /> 961514.0 4 <br /> <br /> <br />