2000-004-RES ADOPTING THE CITY OF PARIS WATER CONSERVATION PLAN

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8. Water Use Auditing: The City of Paris Utilities Department receives monthly reports of water sales volumes from the Billing Office. These volumes are compared to metered raw and treated water volumes to track lost or un-accounted for water. This is the initial phase of early identification oflost water and corrective measures are pursued accordingly. A comprehensive water use audit is also performed by private consultants when the utility rate study is performed every three years. Water sales are further tracked by user type as residential, commercial, industrial and wholesale as part of the annual Surface Water Use Report sent to the TNRCC and TWDB. Other Pro2rams 1. Emergency Water Management and Drought Contingency Plan: The Utilities Department has maintained a plan for emergency water management for disasters, power outages and other disruptions of service for the past few years. This plan has been updated periodically as needed. A comprehensive Drought Contingency Plan has recently been drafted in accordance with TNRCC guidelines for such plans. 2. Reservoir Systems Operations Plan: Pat Mayse Lake is a federally owned reservoir under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District. Pat Mayse Lake is included in their drought contingency plan for the Lower Red River Basin. 3. Relationship to Wholesale Water Customers: Chapter 288 (Water Conservation Plans, Guidelines and Requirements) of Title 30 of the Texas Administrative Code requires all wholesale water contracts entered into or renewed by the City must include a provision that the wholesale customer must adopt a conservation plan in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 288 of Title 30. This clause must be included in the water contracts of Lamar County and Marvin-Jennings- Clardy upon renewal or extension and must be included in any new contract for wholesale water entered into with the City of Paris. Furthermore, any customer purchasing wholesale water from the City of Paris who further wholesales water to another customer must require all successive wholesale customers to adopt a conservation plan in accordance with Chapter 288. 5