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q, 92 <br />REDWOOD CITY WATER SUPPLY UPDATE (Cont.) <br />Status of Water Conservation Program "Best Management Practices" (BMP's) <br />• BMP #1: Water Allocation Program (WAP) database for single - family customers and web <br />browser update completed. A brief "test drive" presentation was made to the City Council on <br />January 13, 2003. Staff is continuously adding new customer information and /or posting <br />corrections as received. <br />BMP#5: Participation in the new BAWUA regional large landscape conservation program <br />was approved by the City Council Nov. 4, 2002, at a high activity level, and a cost of $115,000. <br />The project consultants mailed the initial information packages to all landscape accounts in <br />February, with follow -up February meter reading information sent the first week of March. We <br />expect to perform 30-40 site audits in March and April 2003. Additionally, the initial meeting <br />of consultants and city parks maintenance staff was held in late February. <br />BMP#6: Redwood City joined the BAWUA regional washing machine rebates program in <br />August 2001. Since that time, Redwood City has approved and processed a total of 760 <br />rebates at $150 each, for a total expenditure to date of $114,000. The water savings that this <br />represents is estimated at 3.9 million gallons, or nearly 12 acre -feet per year (enough water to <br />support up to 48 high - efficiency multi - family housing units). Redwood City leads all BAWUA <br />agencies in toilet rebates since the regional program began. <br />• New web page (httr)://www.redwoodcity.org/conservation/index.html posted. <br />• Pending conservation program elements for other BMP's — and choices on the degree of <br />aggressiveness - will be brought back to the Council in the context of the FY 2003/04 budget <br />and water rates. Recommendations will include an ultra -low flush (ULF) toilet rebate program <br />and an apartment building target toilet change -out project. <br />Visit the web site at hftp://www.redwoodcity.org/water/index.html <br />Watch the web page for meeting schedules and informational updatesl <br />Contact: Peter Ingram, Public Works Services Director (650) 780 -7464 pincram®redwoodcitv.org <br />2 of 2 <br />