2009-115-RES-Adopting a revised water conservation plan for the City of Paris

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WATER CONSERVATION PLAN FOR THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS SUMMARY The City of Paris currently serves a population over 26,000 residents and is expected to grow approximately 34,000 residents by 2050 based on projections provided by Texas Water Development Board planning data. The current service area directly served by the City of Paris is 38.12 square miles. In addition to the residents of Paris, the City also wholesales treated water to two other water supplies: Lamar County and Marvin-Jennings- Clardy Water Supplies. Water is furnished by a single water treatment plant originally built in 1967 and last expanded in 1995 to a current water capability of 36 million gallons per day. All water is treated from two reservoirs: Pat Mayse Lake with a maximum diversion of 55 million gallons per day and Lake Crook with a maximum diversion of 10.7 million gallons per day. This total water right diversion of 65.7 million gallons per day is expected to be more than adequate to meet future growth in population and industry for both the City and the county well into the 21St century. This Water Conservation Plan has been developed to protect these water resources and extend their useful life to insure a sufficient water supply is available to provide for all anticipated, and even unexpected, water dernands of the future. In order to implement the basic elements of this Plan, it is necessary to examine current water use practices, educate the public about water use reduction and/or efficient water usage patterns and establish methodologies for achieving these goals. This Plan identifies several water conservation goals and esplains those areas where potential water conservation can be achieved. Conservation can have the major benefit of reducing overall water demand resulting in a delay of the need for expenditures for treatment plant expansion or acquisition of additional raw water rights. Much of the information contained herein is required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for Water Conservation Plans. Additional information included is specific to the City of Paris water supply and treatment system and local usage pattern and necessity. Utilitv Sur-vev The initial phase of developing a conservation plan is dependent on tbe results of a utility survey. This survey is a comprehensive profile of water usage patterns by customer type and covers a period of the previous five years. Data from the survey was used in a calculating technical data for determination of future water conservation goals. 2