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

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part of the annual Surface Water Use Report sent to the TCEQ and TWDB. A comprehensive water use audit was performed by private consultants in 2003 and the last audit was performed July 7, 2009 by the City of Paris Utilities Dept. Comprehensive audits are the required every five years thereafter. Other ProQrams 1. Emergency Water Management and Drought Contingency Plan: The Utilities Department has maintained a plan far 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 updated in accordance with TCEQ guidelines for such plans. 2. 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- Ciardy 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. 4. Coordination with Regional Water Planning Groups: The service area of the City of Paris is located within the Northeast Texas Region D Water Planning Group and the City of Paris shall provide a copy of this plan to the Northeast Texas Region D Water Planning Group. Water Conservation Goals for Estimation of Potential Reduction in Per Capita Water L1se throuah the Year 2050 The following tables for potential reduction in per capita water use were initially calculated in 1999 for the original adoption of the Water Conservation Plan in 2000. The Utility Survey form and instructions were provided by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for municipal water conservation planning through the year 2050. C)