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Resolution 5076-04-2019
A Resolution NO. 5076-04-2019 ADOPTING THE 2019 WATER CONSERVATION PLAN WHEREAS, the City Council finds that conservation of water and protection of water supplies are in the best interests of its citizens; and WHEREAS, on April 8, 2014, the City Council adopted a water conservation pIan by approving Resolution No. 4310-04-2014; and WHEREAS, House Bill (HB) 2660 adopted by the 78th Texas Legislation and rules adopted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality pursuant to HB 2660 require that, beginning May 1, 2005, water conservation plans for municipal use by public water suppliers must include specific, quantified five-year and ten- year targets for water savings including goals for water loss programs and goals for municipal use in gallons per capita per day, and requires that plans must be reviewed and updated every five years; and WHEREAS, the water conservation plan attached hereto as Exhibit "A" proposes a goal of water usage of 140 gallons per capita per day by 2024 and 136 gallons per capita by 2029; and WHEREAS, it is the intent of the City Council that the water conservation plan attached hereto as Exhibit "A" supersede the water conservation plan approved by the City Council on April 8, 2014. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THAT: The City Council adopts the Water Conservation Plan attached hereto as Exhibit "A" as official City policy. Adopted this 9th day of April, 2019. ATTI By: Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth Adopted April 09, 2019 Prepared by: FREESE AND NICHOLS, INC. 4055 International Plaza, Suite 200 Fort Worth, Texas 76109 817-73S-7300 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE...muff .............................................................................................................1-1 2.0 REGULATORY BASIS FOR WATER CONSERVATION PLAN.................................................................. 2-1 2.1 TCEQ Rules Governing Conservation Plans...........................................................................................a 2-1 2.2 Guidance and Methodology for Reporting on Water Conservation and Water Use ............... 2-3 2.3 Texas Water Development Board Water Conservation Planning Tool ....................................... 2-3 3.0 DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE AREA AND UTILITY PROFILE...................................................................3-1 4.0 SPECIFICATION OF WATER CONSERVATION GOALS.............................................................................4-1 4.1 Analysis of Best Management Practices...................................................................................................4-3 5.0 METERING, WATER USE RECORDS, CONTROL OF NONREVENUE WATER, AND LEAK DETECTIONAND REPAIR, . 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PERIODIC REVIEW AND UPDATE OF PLANS-1 LIST OF TABLES Table 3-1: 2019 Treatment Plant Capacity................................................................................................3-4 Table 4-1: Previous Plan GPCD Goals (2014).............................................................................................4-1 Table 4-2: GPCD Goals(2019).......................................some .........................................................................4-2 Table 4-3: Water Conservation Best Management Practices Implementation Schedule. a 0 a 2 a 0 2 a a 0 a 0 0 a a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 94-5 Table 4-4: Best Management Practice Cost -Effectiveness Estimates..... sees*@ Soo@** mossm ffiffinsm seemeanseemene 4-8 Table 5-1: Meter Size Distribution. 0 a a 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 a a 0 4 0 a 0 0 a 0 a 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 a a 0 0 0 0 0 a a 0 0 0 9 0 a 0 a 0 a 0 0 0 a 0 0 a a 0 w 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 a * a 0 1 a 0 a 0 1 a a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 0 a 1 0 a a 6 a a 0 0 a a 0 5-2 Table 5-2: Previous Plan Water Loss Goals(2014)....................................................................................a5-3 Table 5-3: Water Loss Goals (2019).0...4400.18.0.0.0440800..6.48..4.00.0.0000019...90000.00..00090.600.006006.06.6.00060..09.00.866.4160..8905-3 Table 5-4: Leak Detection Program Implementation. 4 0 0 a 4 0 1 0 0 9 4 * 4 1 0 a 0 0 0 a a a 0 0 0 a 0 a 0 0 0 a a 0 a 0 0 0 a a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a * 0 6 a 0 a 0 0 6 0 a 5-4 Table 5-5: WECAP Risk -Based Assessment Scoring Parameters..... nownen Newman mamo%moam now 5-4 Table 6-1: Monthly Meter Charges.....................................................0.0600.0.00....0..0...40...06.0600..4....0.0......0.00a6-3 Table 6-2: Residential Water Rates. . 0 a a a a 0 a 0 0 0 2 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 a a 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 a 0 9 % 0 0 a 0 a 0 6 0 0 a 0 a a 0 0 0 0 a I a a a 0 a 0 a 0 a 0 a I a a * 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 a 6 0 a 6 0 a 0 a a a 0 0 0 a 6-3 Table 6-3: Commercial Water Rates. a a a a 5 0 0 0 0 a a 0 4 1 0 0 * 0 0 * a 4 9 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 a a 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 a a 0 0 0 6 9 0 6 0 0 a 0 a a a 0 a 0 8 0 0 a 0 0 6 0 6 a * 0 8 0 0 0 a 0 4 0 4 * so a a 0 0 6-3 Table 6-4: Industrial Water Rates. a a * 6 0 a 9 0 4 a 0 0 0 0 * 0 0 9 a * I * a * 0 0 4 6 0 9 * 0 4 5 0 0 0 0 a a 0 0 1 0 0 a 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a * 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 a 0 0 0 a 0 a 0 0 a 0 0 0 6 a 0 a a 0 a 0 0 0 0 a 6 a 0 & a 0 0 0 & 8 0 a a a 0 0 8 9 6-3 Table 6-5: Super User Water Rates (phased out after 2019).........................mom ................................... moose .6-4 Table 6-6: Irrigation Water Rates................................................0...0...00..00.0000..0.000.0000000.0....0..0..0........608008.46-4 Table 6-7: Gas Well Rates. 0 0 9 0 V 0 0 8 0 4 a 0 a 0 a a a a a a a a a 0 0 a a 0 a 0 0 0 a 0 a 0 *a 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 a us am 6 a 0 0 a a *0 a * 6-4 Table 6-8: Wholesale Customers. 0 9 1 0 0 1 a 0 a 0 0 a a 0 a 0 a a a 0 a a a 0 0 0 9 0 9 1 0 0 0 4 1 * 0 0 a 0 8 1 * a 0 0 a a a a 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 a a 0 a a a 0 * 0 2 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a a 0 a 0 0 0 0 a a 0 a 0 a a 0 a a W a a 9 6-5 Table 6-9: Wholesale Customer Targets......................................................moves .........................................6-6 Table 7-1: Year-round Twice per Week Watering Schedule.....................................................................07-2 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 3-1: Fort Worth's Water Service Area.00.00.00.0.0000.0600.000009006006.0.........................................................3-2 Figure 3-2: Tarrant Regional Water District Supply Sources......................................................................3-3 Figure 4-1: Fort Worth Total Per Capita Use and Goals..................................................................mesa .......4-2 Figure 7-1: City of Fort Worth Parcel Year Built.......................................................................................7-10 Figure 8-1: Zip Codes for Customer Characterization.......... Figure 8-2: Residential Median Monthly Consumption Per Account. 4 * 0 0 8 0 0 a 0 a 0 0 a a 0 0 4 9 0 0 8 a 0 a a a 0 a 9 0 a 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 a 0 a 0 a 0 w a % 8 - 4 Figure 8-3: Average Median Monthly Consumption Per Account (2016-2018)........................................8-4 Figure 8-4: Median Annual Consumption Per Account. 0 * 0 a 4 4 a 0 0 0 a 0 a 0 a 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 a a * a a 0 a 0 0 0 * 6 9 a 0 a a meet* 8-5 Figure 8-5: Average Median Annual Consumption vs. Home Value Index.....................owe ........................8-5 April 2019 ii Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth APPENDICES FORT WORTH® 140 APPENDIX A List of References APPENDIX B Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Rules on Water Conservation Plans for Municipal and Wholesale Water Providers • Texas Administrative Code Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 288, Subchapter A, Rule §288.1 - Definitions (Page B-1) • Texas Administrative Code Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 288, Subchapter A, Rule §288.2 - Water Conservation Plans for Municipal Uses by Public Water Suppliers (Page B-S) • Texas Administrative Code Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 288, Subchapter A, Rule §288.5 - Water Conservation Plans for Wholesale Water Suppliers (Page 13-9) APPENDIX C City of Fort Worth Utility Profiles Based on TCEQ Format APPENDIX D Letters to Region C and G Water Planning Groups, and Tarrant Regional Water District APPENDIX E Adoption of the Water Conservation Plan April 2019 iii Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH. City of Fort Worth 1nu INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Water supply has always been a key issue in the development of Texas. In recent years, the increasing population and economic development of North Central Texas have led to growing demands for water supplies. Atthe same time, local and less expensive sources of water supply are largely already developed. Additional supplies to meet future demands will be expensive and difficult to secure. Severe drought conditions in the recent past have highlighted the importance of the efficient use of our existing supplies to make them last as long as possible. Extending current supplies will delay the need for new supplies, minimize the environmental impacts associated with developing new supplies, and delay the high cost of additional water supply development. Recognizing the need for efficient use of existing water supplies, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has developed guidelines and requirements governing the development of water conservation plans.' The TCEQ guidelines and requirements are included in Appendix B. The City of Fort Worth has developed this Water Conservation Plan in accordance with TCEQ guidelines and requirements. To develop a regional approach, Tarrant Regional Water District's Water Conservation and Drought Contingency Plan', of whom the City of Fort Worth is a customer, was consulted. This Water Conservation Plan replaces the previous plan dated April 2014. The City of Fort Worth also recognizes that in order to achieve its goals of maximizing water conservation and efficiency, it is necessary to develop and implement a water conservation plan that goes beyond basic compliance with TCEQ guidelines and requirements. This Plan reflects the City of Fort Worth's commitment to enhanced water conservation and efficiency strategies — particularly those best management practices established by the Water Conservation Implementation Task Force' and Water Conservation Advisory Council (WCAC), which were incorporated, where practicable, in the development of these water conservation measures. The Water Conservation Implementation Task Force developed the Texas Water Development Board Report 362 Water Conservation Best Management Practices Guide in partial fulfillment of the Texas Legislature's charge to the TCEQ and Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to develop recommendations for optimum levels of water use efficiency and conservation in the State. In 2007, the state legislature created the WCAC which was given several charges, one of which is monitoring new technologies for possible inclusion in the best management practice guide. The WCAC regularly reviews, updates, and creates new best management practices through a collaborative process. April 2019 1-1 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth 1 Superscripted numbers match references listed in Appendix A As best management practices are developed, they are published online at htti3://www.savetexaswater.orR/bmr)/index.asD. The objectives of this Water Conservation Plan are as follows: • To reduce water consumption from the levels that would prevail without conservation efforts. • To reduce the loss and waste of water. • To improve efficiency in the use of water. • To encourage efficient outdoor water use. • To document the level of recycling and reuse in the water supply. • To extend the life of current water supplies by reducing the rate of growth in demand. The City's plan will achieve significant conservation savings to help extend the life of existing supplies without burdening the customer with unnecessary additional costs. Abbreviations Abbreviation Full Nomenclature AMI Advanced Metering Infrastructure AWWA American Water Works Association BMP Best Management Practices EPA Environmental Protection Agency TCEQ I Texas Commission on Environmental Quality TRWD � Tarrant Regional Water District TWDB Texas Water Development Board WCAC Water Conservation Advisory Council WCP or Plan Water Conservation Plan April 2019 1-2 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTHe City of Fort Worth 2.0 REGULATORY BASIS FOR WATER CONSERVATION PLAN 2.1 TCEQ RULES GOVERNING CONSERVATION PLANS The TCEQ rules governing development of water conservation plans for public water suppliers are contained in Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 288, Subchapter A, Rule 288.2 of the Texas Administrative Code, which is included in Appendix B. For the purpose of these rules, a water conservation plan is defined as "A strategy or combination of strategies for reducing the volume of water withdrawn from a water supply source, for reducing the loss or waste of water, for maintaining or improving the efficiency in the use of water, for increasing the recycling and reuse of water, and for preventing the pollution of water." The elements in the TCEQ water conservation rules covered in this conservation plan are listed below. Minimum Conservation Plan Requirements The minimum requirements in the Texas Administrative Code for Water Conservation Plans for Public Water Suppliers are covered in this report as follows: • 288.2(a)(1)(A) -Utility Profiles -Section 3.0 and Appendix C • 288.2(a)(1)(B) - Record Management System - Section 5.2 • 288.2(a)(1)(C)-Specific, Quantified Goals -Section 4.0 • 288.2(a)(1)(D) - Accurate Metering - Section 5.2 • 288.2(a)(1)(E) - Universal Metering -Section 5.2 • 288.2(a)(1)(F) - Determination and Control of Water Loss - Section 5.2 and 5.3 • 288.2(a)(1)(G) - Public Education and Information Program -Section 6.1 • 288.2(a)(1)(H) - Non -Promotional Water Rate Structure - Section 6.2 • 288.2(a)(1)(1) - Reservoir System Operation Plan -Section 6.3 • 288.2(a)(1)(J) - Means of Implementation and Enforcement -Section 6.4 • 288.2(a)(1)(K) - Coordination with Regional Water Planning Groups - Section 6.6 and Appendix D • 288.2(c) - Review and Update of Plan - Section 9.0 Conservation Additional Requirements (Population over 5,000) The Texas Administrative Code includes additional requirements for water conservation plans for drinking water supplies serving a population over 5,000: • 288.2(a)(2)(A) -Leak Detection, Repair, and Water Loss Accounting -Section 5.3 • 288.2(a)(2)(B) -Requirement for Water Conservation Plans by Wholesale Customers -Section 6.5 April 2019 2-1 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth Additional Conservation Strategies FORT WORTH® The Texas Administrative Code lists additional conservation strategies, which may be adopted by suppliers but are not required. Additional strategies adopted by the City of Fort Worth include the following: • 288.2(a)(3)(A) -Conservation Oriented Water Rates -Section 6.2 • 288.2(a)(3)(B) - Ordinances, Plumbing Codes or Rules on Water -Conserving Fixtures - Section 7.1 • 288.2(a)(3)(C) - Replacement of Retrofit of Water -Conserving Fixtures - Section 7.1 • 288.2(a)(3)(D) - Reuse and Recycling of Wastewater - Section 7.2 • 288.2(a)(3)(F) - Considerations for Landscape Water Management Regulations - Section 7.3 In addition to being a public water supplier under TCEQ rules, the City of Fort Worth also acts as a wholesale provider to thirty three current and future wholesale customers; thus, the TCEQ water conservation rules for wholesale providers are also addressed. The TCEQ rules governing development of water conservation plans for wholesale water suppliers are contained in Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 288, Subchapter A, Rule 288.5 of the Texas Administrative Code, which is included in Appendix B. The elements in the TCEQ water conservation rules for wholesale water suppliers addressed in this Water Conservation Plan are listed below. Minimum Conservation Plan Requirements for Wholesale Water Suppliers The minimum requirements in the Texas Administrative Code for water conservation plans for wholesale water suppliers are covered in this Plan as follows: • 288.5(1)(A) -Description of Service Area -Section 3.0 and Appendix C • 288.5(1)(B) -Specc, Quanted Goals -Section 4.0 • 288.5(1)(C) - Measure and Account for Water Diverted - Section 5.1 • 288.5(1)(D) - Monitoring and Record Management System - Section 5.2 • 288.5(1)(E) - Program of Metering and Leak Detection and Repair -Section 5.3 • 288.5(1)(F) - Requirement for Water Conservation Plans by Wholesale Customers - Section 6.5 • 288.5(1)(G) - Reservoir System Operation Plan -Section 6.3 • 288.5(1)(H) - Means of Implementation and Enforcement -Section 6.4 • 288.5(1)(1) - Documentation of Coordination with Regional Water Planning Groups -Section 6.6 • 288.5(3) - Review and Update of Plan -Section 9.0 Additional Conservation Strategies for Wholesale Water Suppliers The Texas Administrative Code lists additional water conservation strategies that can be adopted by a wholesale supplier but are not required. Additional strategies adopted by the City of Fort Worth include the following: Apri 12019 2-2 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH. City of Fort Worth • 288.5(2)(C) — Program for Reuse and/or Recycling — Section 7.2 • 288.5(2)(D) — Other Measures - Section 6.1 (public education), and Sections 7.3 (landscape water management measures) 2.2 GUIDANCE AND METHODOLOGY FOR REPORTING ON WATER CONSERVATION AND WATER USE In addition to TCEQ rules regarding water conservation, this Plan also incorporates elements of the Guidance and Methodology for Reporting on Water Conservation and Water Use developed by TWDB and TCEQ, in consultation with the Water Conservation Advisory Council (the "Guidance").' The Guidance was developed in response to a charge by the 82"d Texas Legislature to develop water use and calculation methodology and guidance for preparation of water use reports and water conservation plans in accordance with TCEQ rules. The City of Fort Worth has considered elements of the Guidance in preparation of this Plan. 2.3 TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD WATER CONSERVATION PLANNING TOOL The TWDB has developed a Municipal Water Conservation Planning Tool to be utilized by utilities to evaluate various best management practices. The tool is pre -loaded with data submitted by utilities as part of the water use surveys and has a library of best management practices with water savings and associated cost. The tool was released on December 14, 2018 and was available for the development of this Water Conservation Plan. The City of Fort Worth has utilized the tool in development of the per capita goals in this Plan and for comparing cost and savings. In addition, Fort Worth encourages each of its Wholesale Customers to utilize the tool, to the extent practical, for water conservation planning. The TWDB offered a training workshop on the tool in December 2018, and the tool along with the training video is posted on the TWDB website. April 2019 2-3 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth 3nu DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE AREA AND UTILITY PROFILE The City of Fort Worth provides retail water and sewer service to approximately 820,000 residents and wholesale water service to 33 wholesale customers listed below. Service through wholesale customers accounts for approximately 440,000 additional residents. In total, Fort Worth provides water directly or indirectly to nearly 1.3 million people in Tarrant, Denton, Johnson, Parker and Wise counties. Figure 34 shows Fort Worth's retail water service area. Fort Worth's current and future wholesale customers include: • Aledo • Benbrook • Bethesda WSC • Burleson • Crowley • DFW Airport • Dalworthington Gardens • Edgecliff Village • Everman • Forest Hill • Grand Prairie • Haltom City • Haslet • Hudson Oaks (future) • Hurst • Keller • Kennedale • Lake Worth • North Richland Hills • Northlake • Richland Hills • River Oaks • Roanoke • Saginaw • Sansom Park • Southlake • Trophy Club MUD #1 • Trinity River Authority (TRA) • Westlake • Westover Hills • Westworth Village • White Settlement • Willow Park (future) The City purchases raw water from the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD). This water is from six major reservoirs, as shown in Figure 3-2: • Lake Bridgeport (via the West Fork of the Trinity River), • Eagle Mountain Lake (via the West Fork of the Trinity River), • Lake Worth (via the West Fork of the Trinity River), • Lake Benbrook (A pipeline connects Lake Benbrook to the Rolling Hills Water Treatment Plant to supplement supply to that plant. A pump station on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River also supplies the Holly Water Treatment Plant.), • Cedar Creek Reservoir (via pipeline), located approximately 75 miles southeast of Fort Worth, and • Richland -Chambers Reservoir (via pipeline), located approximately 75 miles southeast of Fort Worth. April 2019 3-1 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH. FIGURE 3-1: FORT WORTH'S WATER SERVICE AREA _.._.... FIGURE 31l CITY OF FORT WORTH WATER SERVICE AREAS 0MQ Qrrs»..e.+�.�.� wa+ N IN �tLLee j� �o ,r `IL FoR N� - ' R L�--=tl -- -i � I �3NICNOLS _ N • 1 FL LL4 - - - -� -------- - C ILL -1 sL Nip NNNN L Ni L I 1r :.� 1 April 2019 3-2 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTHe City of Fort Worth FIGURE 3-2: TARRANT REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT SUPPLY SOURCES . Qr.lyc I v. -- Fatima Bridgeport w4a Denton Fyn Reservoir � Nun( lfqj*ns Z� s:aArre ,� Mountain Reservoir PaloPrnto AVAer Tf Tarrant Worth L Adel Benbiouk / ''_'" John, I Era(h Soeuvvou �---- Pump Stations Bmqua Water Treatment Pipelines TRWD Service Area Kau man Ceder MirMir `V Navaho - Fku Rlohland•Chambera Reservoir 7 ` Umestona ennan AA Von Zeno( rr7 Handeison i Freestone '` i Move I Lem April 2019 3-3 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® 44 The City's service area is currently served by five water treatment plants. As of 2019, the total treatment capacity is 500 million gallons per day (MGD). A breakdown of treatment capacity by plant is provided in Table 3-1 below. TABLE 3-1: 2019 TREATMENT PLANT CAPACITY Design Reliable Treatment Plant Capacity Pumping (MGD) Capacity (MGD) Rolling Hills, est. 1972 200 190 North Holly, est. 1918 80 75 South Holly, est. 1952 100 95 Eagle Mountain, est. 1992 105 100 Westside, est. 2012 15 12 Total 500 472 The City has a wastewater treatment capacity of 166 MGD at the Village Creek Water Reclamation Facility in east Fort Worth. Appendix C contains Fort Worth's most recent water utility profiles based on the formats recommended by TCEQ for both retail suppliers and wholesale suppliers. April 2019 3-4 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH, City of Fort Worth 4nu SPECIFICATION OF WATER CONSERVATION GOALS TCEQ rules require the adoption of specific water conservation goals for a water conservation plan. The goals for this Water Conservation Plan include the following: • Maintain the 5-year moving average total per capita and residential per capita water use below specified amount in Table 4-2. • Maintain the level of water loss in the system below the specified amount in Table 5-3. • Maintain the Infrastructure Leakage Index (IL.I), as described in Section 5.3, below the specified amount in Table 5-3. • Maintain a program of universal metering and meter replacement and repair as discussed in Section 5.2. • Increase efficient water usage and decrease waste in lawn irrigation by enforcement of reasonable landscape water management regulations as described in Section 7.3. • Raise public awareness of water conservation and encourage responsible public behavior by a public education and information program as discussed in Section 6.1. In the previous (2014) Plan, total per capita use goals were 160 gallons per capita per day (GPCD) by 2020 and 152 GPCD by 2025 as outlined in Table 44 below. Fort Worth's five-year average per capita use (2013- 2017) was 159 GPCD, showing that actual usage has already achieved results in line with the 2014 Plan, TABLE 4-1: PREVIOUS PLAN GPCD GOALS (2014) Description Units 2013 2020 1 2025 Total GPCD a GPCD 171 160 152 Residential GPCD b GPCD 81 76 72 a. Total GPCD = (Total Gallons in System _ Permanent Population) _ 365 b. Residential GPCD = (Gallons Used for Residential Use _ Residential Population) : 365 Going forward, the City has committed to achieving reductions in usage that are substantially more progressive than the 2014 Plan, as shown in Table 4-2 and Figure 4-1 below. These goals were calculated by using TWDB's Municipal Water Conservation Planning Tool (MWCPT), with a combination of pre- defined and user -defined measures. Some measures that the City added to the tool and that showed significant water savings include Year -Round Twice Per Week Watering restrictions, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AM]), Public Education, School Education, and the City's Water Efficiency and Condition Assessment Program (WECAP). For more information on how these savings will be achieved by these April 2019 4-1 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® programs, see Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8. Figure 4-1 shows the total annual per capita since 2000, the five-year average and the comparison between the previous goals and current goals. TABLE 4-2: GPCD GOALS (2019) Description Units 2018 1 2024 2029 Total GPCD a GPCD 159 140 136 Residential GPCD b GPCD 70 1 66 58 a. Total GPCD = (Total Gallons in System _ Permanent Population) _ 365 b. Residential GPCD = (Gallons Used for Residential Use - Residential Population) : 365 t►��7 200 a M LM a cu 150 c� U LM �- 100 N C O (B 50 FIGURE 4-1: FORT WORTH TOTAL PER CAPITA USE AND GOALS 2005 ♦ Total GPCD 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 Total GPCD 5 year average 2014 Plan Total GPCD Goal � 0 2019 Plan Total GPCD Goal April 2019 4-2 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth 4.1 ANALYSIS OF BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES During each update of the Water Conservation Plan the City has evaluated the best management practices outlined in the Water Conservation Best Management Practices Guide 3. For a complete analysis of the Best Management Practices (BMPs), refer to Table 4-3 and Table 44 on the following pages. Table 4-3 looks at the implementation of the BMPs for the practices the City has implemented and the proposed implementation date for additional strategies. Table 44 looks at the potential savings in 2025 and 2030, the proposed cost in 2025 and 2030, the cost per thousand gallons, whether the practice will have an impact to revenues (low, medium or high) and whether the practice has other benefits such as additional supply sources, revenue recovery or education component. It should also be noted that the Water Conservation Advisory Council (WCAC) is reviewing and updating these BMPs. At this point the WCAC has proposed four BMPs for wholesale water providers and adopted one, Technical Assistance and Outreach, all of which the City is already implementing at some level. 1. Technical Assistance and Outreach —The City holds regular meetings with its wholesale customers to update them on programs the City is implementing. Water conservation staff is available for wholesale customers to contact regarding their programs and to assist wholesale customers with implementing their own programs. 2. Wholesale Conservation Rates —City of Fort Worth structures its wholesale rates such that the utility achieves adequate cost recovery. 3. Water Conservation Education and Public Awareness —The City of Fort Worth has an active water conservation public education program in place. The City coordinates with Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) to provide a regionally consistent message on the importance of water conservation and intends to increase involvement throughout the region. 4. Providing Financial Incentives Directly to Customer's End -Users —Since the City is both a retail and wholesale provider, it has conducted replacement and retrofit programs for retail customers. At this time the City does not intend to offer a collective purchase or direct distribution program for its wholesale customers. While the City does not formally have a cost sharing program with its wholesale customers, the City does participate in the Water Efficiency Network of North Texas that organizes cooperative buying programs across the region. In 2018, WCAC substantially expanded the number of municipal BMPs that it approves, from 26 to 31. This includes five new BMPs (Customer Characterization, Custom Conservation Rebates, Enforcement of April 2019 4-3 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® Texas Irrigation License Standards, Outdoor Watering Standards, Plumbing Assistance Programs for Economically Disadvantaged Customers), and four revised BMPs (Conservation Coordinator, Showerhead, Aerator, and Toilet Flapper Retrofit, Small Utility Outreach and Education, and System Water Audit and Water Loss). As of February 2019, all of these new and revised BMPs are awaiting work sessions and TWDB approval. April 2019 4-4 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH. City of Fort Worth TABLE 4-3: WATER CONSERVATION BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES BMP Description Implementation Date Municipal BMPs 21 Conservation 1990 Coordinator Cost -Effectiveness 2,2 Analysis for Municipal Water Users Water Survey for 2.3 Single -Family and 2007 Irrigation Multi -Family Audits Customers 3.1 Water Conservation 1994 Pricing Wholesale Agency 3.2 Assistance Programs Metering of All New Connections and 4.1 Retrofit of Existing Prior to 1980 Connections System WaterAudit 4.2 and Water Loss 2002 5.1 IAthletic Field I 2006 Conservation 5 2 IGolf Course Conservation Targeted Landscape 5.3 Irrigation 2003 Conservation and Incentives 5.4 I Park Conservation Residential 5.5 Landscape Irrigation 2007 Evaluations 6.1 Public Information 1983 6.2 School Education I 1990 IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE Implementation Schedule Implemented Implemented Implemented Implemented By Code before 2020 before 2025 before 2030 =✓7 \v � Notes General duties assigned 1990, program manager hired 2008. Developmental work with TWDB tool to determine the cost effectiveness of programs; additionally, City will rely on tool to produce a report with metrics to guide future programs. City to use MyH2O to conduct and review water use for single- and multi -family customers. Super -user tier removed 2020. City to provide technical assistance on an as needed basis and stakeholder meetings. Implementation of MyH2O starting in 2018 to replace all City meters with digital registers. Provide outreach and education including an inventory of conservation measures; City to develop communication strategy concerning golf courses, athletic fields and parks. Comprehensive multi -strategy targeted outdoor program to be developed implementing landscape conversion, retrofits, and public education plan. Participation is voluntary. See comments on 5.1. TRWD offers these in the Fort Worth Service Area Currently partner with other City departments to achieve goal. City to redesign and develop formal education plan. April 2019 4-5 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth Implementation Schedule BMP Description Implementation Implemented Implemented Implemented Implemented Notes Date By Code before 2020 before 2025 before 2030 Small Utility Fort Worth is not a small utility 6.3 Outreach and but will assist their small Education wholesale customers if requested. Partnerships with City has worked with Master 6.4 Nonprofit 2008 Gardeners, Botanic Gardens and Organizations BRIT; will continue to develop more educational programs. Conservation Programs for 7 1 Industrial, 2010 Commercial, and Institutional Accounts Residential Clothes 7.2a Washer Incentive 1992 Program Additional Residential Clothes Most inefficient residential 7.2b Washer Incentive clothes washers have been Programs replaced Plumbing Code 7.3a Residential Toilet 1992/2014 Replacement Programs Additional Residential and 7.3b Commercial Toilet 2009 Progressively more restrictive Replacement Programs Plumbing Code 7.4a Showerhead, Aerator 1992/2014 and Toilet Flapper Retrofit Additional Showerheads currently Showerhead, Aerator distributed to commercial 7.4b and Toilet Flapper 2018 facilities and at promotional Retrofit Program events. Water Wise Landscape Design 7'5 and Conversion Programs 8 1 I New Construction I :y17 I Graywater Addressed in plumbing provisions Rainwater Harvesting 8.2 and Condensate Addressed in plumbing provisions Reuse 8.3 I Water Reuse I 1999 9 1 IProhibition on I 1994 Wasting Water Apri 12019 4-6 BMP Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth Implementation Schedule Description Implementation I Implemented I Implemented I Implemented Implemented Date By Code before 2020 before 2025 before 2030 Conservation 9.2 Ordinance Planning and Development Draft Municipal BMPs Wholes 2.1 i 2.2 Draft UV 3.1 3.2 FORT WORTH. Notes April 2019 4-7 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH, City of Fort Worth TABLE 44: BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE COST-EFFECTIVENESS ESTIMATES Estimates of Current Costs and Savings Estimated Cost Per Potential Other BMP Description Savings Estimated Costs Thousand Rank for Impact to Benefits Number Gallons Expenditure Water 2024 2029 2024 ($ per 2029 ($ per Revenues Achieved (MGD) (MGD) Year) I Year) 2024 I 2029 Plumbing Code Showerhead, 7.4a Aerator and Toilet 0.00 0.00 $0 $0 N/A N/A PL Code Flapper Plumbing Code 7.3a Residential Toilet 0.00 0.00 $0 $0 N/A N/A Pl. Code Plumbing Code Residential 7.2a Clothes Washer 0.00 0.00 $0 $0 N/A N/A PL Code Plumbing Code Necessary Programs - No Associated Savings Wholesale 2.2 Agency Assistance 0.00 0.00 $50,000 $50,000 N/A N/A Programs 21 Conservation 0.00 0.00 $95,000 $100,000 N/A N/A Coordinator Programs Not recommended (RWPG) Rainwater 8 2 Harvesting and 0.00 0.00 $0 $0 N/A N/A Condensate Reuse 8 1 New Construction 0.00 0.00 $0 $0 N/A N/A Graywater BMP Cost for Existing and Additional Programs Conservation 962 Ordinance 1.00 2.00 $70,000 $80,000 $0.19 $0.11 1 Planning and Development Outdoor Watering 2.64 2.64 $200,000 $200,000 $0.21 $0.21 2 Schedule (Twice Per Week) Water 3.1 Conservation 0.56 0.97 $70,000 $80,000 $0.34 $0.23 3 Pricing 901 Prohibition on 0.50 0.50 $70,000 $80,000 $0.38 $0.44 4 Wasting Water 6.1 Public 0.01 0.01 $2,200 $2,200 $0.55 $0.55 5 Information Showerhead, 7.4b Aerator and Toilet 0.01 0.01 $5,000 $5,000 $0.74 $0.74 6 Flapper Retrofit Low No High No High No High Yes Medium Yes Low No Medium- High No Low No High Yes Medium No Medium No Low Yes Low No April 2019 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® Estimates of Current Costs and Savings Estimated Cost Per BMP Estimated Costs Thousand Rank for Number Description Savings Gallons Expenditure 2024 2029 2024 ($ per 2029 ($ per 2024 2029 (MGD) (MGD) Year) Year) System Water 42 Audit and Water 3.00 5.00 Loss (Leak $880,000 $968,000 $0.80 $0.53 7 Detection Repair) Intensified Water Loss and Water Line Replacement 4.50 6.00 $1,320,000 $1,452,000 $0.80 $0.66 7 Program Residential Toilet 7.3b Replacement 0.12 0.22 $135,600 $135,600 $1.05 $1.05 9 Programs 6.2 School Education 0.01 0.01 $3,200 $3,200 $1.10 $1.10 10 5.4 Park Conservation 0.50 0.50 $250,000 $250,000 $1.37 $1.37 11 52 I Golf Course I 0.50 0.50 $250 000 Conservation $250,000 $1.37 $1.37 11 5.1 IAthletic Field 0.80 0.80 Conservation $400,000 $400,000 $1.37 $1.37 11 Conservation Programs for 71 Industrial, 0.22 0.24 $250,000 $275,000 $1.64 $1.64 14 Commercial and Institutional Accounts 8.3 Water Reuse 30.15 30.15 $20,000,000 $20,000,000 $1.82 $1.82 15 Water Wise Landscape 7.5 Irrigation N/A N/A N/A N/A $1.99 $1.99 16 Conservation and Incentives Landscape 5.3 Irrigation 0.03 0.06 Conservation and $37,800 $37,800 $2.13 $2.13 17 Incentives Metering of all New Connections 4.1 and Retrofit of 0.50 0.50 $500,000 $500,000 $2.74 $2.74 18 Existing Connections Residential 5.5 Landscape 0.01 0.01 N/A N/A $2.83 $2.83 19 Irrigation Evaluations Rainwater 8 2 Harvesting and 0.01 0.02 $32,000 $32,000 $3.42 $3.42 20 Condensate Reuse Potential Other Impact to Benefits Water Achieved Revenues Low Yes Low Yes Medium No Low Yes Low No Low No Low No Low No Low Yes Low No Medium No Low Yes Low No Low No April 2019 4-0 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® Estimates of Current Costs and Savings Estimated Cost Per Potential Other BMP Description Savings Estimated Costs Thousand Rank for Impact to Benefits Number Gallons Expenditure Water Achieved 2024 2029 2024 ($ per 2029 ($ per I Revenues (MGD) (MGD) Year) Year) 2024 2029 7 2b Residential N/A N/A N/A N/A $170 $3.70 I 21 High No Clothes Washer Based on 2016 Region C Water Plan, TWDB Municipal Water Conservation Planning Tool, savings and cost data from City of Fort Worth or published literature April 2019 4-10 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH. City of Fort Worth ;.0 METERING, WATER USE RECORDS, CONTROL OF NONREVENUE WATER, AND LEAK DETECTION AND REPAIR One of the key elements in water conservation is careful tracking of water use and control of losses. Reducing nonrevenue water is also one of the few conservation programs that directly impacts rates. Programs for universal metering, meter testing, meter repair, and periodic meter replacement have been developed using American Water Works Association (AWWA) standards and are important elements in the City of Fort Worth's program to control losses. 5.1 PRACTICES TO MEASURE AND ACCOUNT FOR THE AMOUNT OF WATER DIVERTED FROM TRWD Water deliveries from TRWD are metered by TRWD using meters with accuracy of at least ±5%. TRWD can access the meters at all reasonable times, and meters are calibrated to maintain the required accuracy. 5.2 MONITORING AND RECORD MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING DELIVERIES, SALES AND LOSSES The City has an effective record management system in place. As required by TAC Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 288, Subchapter A, Rule 288.2 (a)(2)(B), Fort Worth's record management system allows for the separation of water sales and uses into residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial categories. This information is included in the TCEQ required Water Conservation Implementation report, as described in Section 6.4. The City of Fort Worth meters all of the connections in the distribution system. Meters range in size from 3/4" to 10". The meter size distribution is included in Table 54 below. All meters met AWWA accuracy standards when installed. In 2018, there were a total of 261,366 active retail customer meters in the City. April 2019 5-1 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth TABLE 5-1: METER SIZE DISTRIBUTION Meter Size Total Number 5/8" X 3/4" 2201133 3/4" X 3/4" 11757 1" 1 25,967 11/2 41350 2" 71752 3" 433 4" 430 6" 326 8" 110 10 27 Unidentified 81 Total 261,366 FORT WORTH. 44 The City has implemented a meter exchange program that provides for the annual replacement of meters in the system that do not register the correct amount of water flowing through them. This program replaced more than 20,000 meters between 2014 and 2018. The implementation of the meter replacement program is aligned with the deployment of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), MyH2O program, further described in Section 7.5. 5.3 LEAK DETECTION, REPAIR AND WATER LOSS ACCOUNTING The system water audit is used annually to monitor the total level of non -revenue water. There are many variables which influence the revenue and nonrevenue components of the City's water system including meter inaccuracy, data discrepancies, unauthorized consumption, reported breaks and leaks and unreported losses. The City of Fort Worth uses gallons per connection per day as its preferred water loss metric as it is less variable than other metrics to climatic conditions. In the previous plan, water loss (gallons per connection per day) was 76 with a goal of 72.5 by 2020 and 70 by 2025 (Table 5-2). Due to the City's water loss reduction program, as of 2017, the City has reduced it to 76 gallons of water loss per connection per day (Table 5-3). The Texas Water Development Board has also asked that cities begin to include their water loss in gallons per capita per day and as a percentage of the total water use in the system. In addition to water loss per connection, these are performance indicators that can be used to determine the effectiveness of the water loss reduction program. The City will continue to reduce water losses throughout the system by analyzing and updating the targets and goals of this section annually in conjunction with the water audit. April 2019 5-2 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® TABLE 5-Z: PREVIOUS PLAN WATER LOSS GOALS (2014) Description Units 2012 2020 2025 f Water Loss GPCD a GPCD 27 25 23 Water Loss Percentage b % 13% 12% 10% Real Water Loss Per Gallons/connection Connection per day 76 72.5 70 Real losses ILI 4.08 3.75 3.5 TABLE 5-3: WATER LOSS GOALS (2019) I Description Units 2017 2025 2030 1 Water Loss GPCD a GPCD 27 25 23 Water Loss Percentage b % 1 18% 12% 12% Real Water Loss Per Gallons/connection I 76 I 72.5 70 Connection per day Real losses I ILI 1 4.78 I 3.75 I 3.5 a. Water Loss GPCD = (Total Water Loss _Permanent Population) = 365 b. Water Loss Percentage = (Total Water Loss _ Total Gallons in System) x 100; or (Water Loss GPCD _ Total GPCD) x 100 The Infrastructure Leakage Index (ILI) is a calculation of the theoretical lowest leakage possible divided by existing calculated leakage. This is developed as a unique value for every city and includes variables such as the distance from the curb stop to the meter boxes, the pressure in the system, and the number of service lines or connections per mile of main. Within Fort Worth for the year 2017, the Unavoidable Annual Real Losses (UARL) was approximately 3.9 million gallons per day. This is the theoretical lowest leakage currently possible with the existing infrastructure and service connection density. In 2017, Fort Worth had an ILI of approximately 4.78, which means that theoretically the leakage could be reduced 4.78 times before reaching the lowest possible value. This puts Fort Worth in the average zone of ILIs within the United States. ILI is a good performance indicator for benchmarking the performance of a utilities in operational management of real losses. Generally, an ILI less than 3.0 is considered an extremely efficient system and the goals in this Plan are designed to reach this level over an extended period. The City will continue to reduce leaks in the system through its state-of-the-art technologies that employ acoustic leak -noise detectors to target and locate suspected leaks. Its leak detection program includes continuously monitoring almost 230,000 linear feet of pipe in critical areas, as well as a goal of surveying over 1.5 million linear feet annually. Table 54 below summarizes the leak detection program activity over the past five fiscal years. In FY19, a Leak Detection Plan is being developed and implemented, to improve leak detection through risk -based survey targeting, continuous monitoring technology and deployment improvements, and laying the groundwork for the implementation and use of District Metered Areas. April 2019 5-3 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth TABLE 54: LEAK DETECTION PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION Leaks Found FY14 I 40 FY15 I 45 FY16 I 65 FY17 I 104 FY18 I 49 Water Saved (MG) 55A 61.9 25.8 91A 45.2 Million Linear Feet Surveyed 1A 1.6 1.8 1.6 1.3 The City is evaluating emerging technologies to analyze data from multiple sources, include SCADA, in order to detect and flag events in water distribution systems, including unobserved leaks and breaks. The City of Fort Worth's Water Efficiency Condition Assessment Program (WECAP) is a proactive approach that utilizes a support decision -making tool for identifying and prioritizing inspection, rehabilitation and renewal strategies for raw water transmission and water distribution pipelines. One of the goals of the Program is to provide an objective approach to water system renewal. Water lines were evaluated using a risk -based assessment approach. Risk was calculated as a product of a line's likelihood of failure (condition) and its consequence if the failure were to occur (criticality). Every water distribution system line asset in the City's geographic information system (GIS) was scored based on the following parameters: TABLE 5-5: WECAP RISK -BASED ASSESSMENT SCORING PARAMETERS Condition Parameters Criticality Parameters The results of the risk -based assessment provided the City with the location of its highest risk assets prioritized for system renewal. The program also identifies lines which are in need of renewal not just because of overall risk score, but to prioritize other initiatives as well. Some of these initiatives include: • Replacements of lines with multiple breaks/leaks from the work order system, • Renewal/relocation of active distribution system lines from alleyways, • Replacement of all cast iron pipes in the distribution system, and • Renewal of small diameter lines to the City's standard sizing. The WECAP program developed this prioritized process and enables the City to re -score the lines on a regular interval basis for maintaining an updated program. Another component of the program is to develop an inspection plan for identifying large diameter lines for field testing. This portion of the project April 2019 5-4 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH© City of Fort Worth is currently on -going. As the City actively renews older portions of the distribution system/ problematic lines and implements the My112O program, water losses should decrease in the coming years. More information on Fort Worth's MY and AMI program can be found in Section 7.5. April 2019 5-5 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTHe City of Fort Worth 6.0 OTHER REQUIRED CONSERVATION MEASURES 6.1 PUBLIC EDUCATION AND INFORMATION The City of Fort Worth has an active, comprehensive water conservation public education program in placeI The City coordinates with Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) to provide a regionally consistent message on the importance of water conservation. Water conservation staff have implemented the following public education activities in 2017. • Nearly 8,000 brochures distributed in 2017. • Nearly 3 million water bill inserts distributed in 2017. • Notification of local organizations, schools, and civic groups that the City of Fort Worth staff is available to make presentations on the importance of water conservation and ways to save water. In 2017, the City participated in dozens of community events, YardSmart Seminars, and provided support for displays, exhibits and presentations in the community on water conservation reaching nearly 20,000 people. • Water conservation information on Fort Worth's website (fortworthtexas.gov, savefortworthwater.org). • Encouragement of local media coverage of water conservation issues and the importance of water conservation. • Education programs not only for schools within the Fort Worth Independent School District, but also for schools within the 13 other districts which operate within the wholesale customer boundaries. • Educational posts on social media accounts. • Involvement in EPA's fix -a -leak week including the Annual Chasing Leaks 5k. Fort Worth has been a proactive partner in the EPA's WaterSense program and have been recognized multiple times for their partnership. • 2018 —WaterSense Promotional Partner of the Year -The City of Fort Worth expanded its water conservation outreach efforts through collaboration with other WaterSense partners during 2017. Fort Worth Water volunteered to partner with WaterSense on a Fix a Leak Week 2017 Hispanic outreach pilot program. The pilot program consisted of culturally -relevant outreach materials focused on finding and fixing leaks. The materials were modeled after Loteria, a Mexican April 2019 6-1 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH 114 game of chance played like bingo, with Fort Worth providing translations for the cards. More than 400 water conservation kits (using bags donated by American Standard) were distributed at various pop-up events throughout the community. The City continued its sponsorship of the third annual Chasing Leaks 5k race, in conjunction with the Fort Worth Runners Club, where more than 180 runners and other attendees received water conservation tips and the new bilingual materials. The City of Fort Worth attended many other community events throughout 2017, including a water festival for fifth graders called Waterama. • 2017 -WaterSense Excellence in Promoting WaterSense Labeled Products -The City of Fort Worth Water Department promotes WaterSense labeled products to properties big and small. The department's SmartFlush Toilet Program, which focuses on residential, low-income, elderly and commercial properties, distributed more than 2,800 free WaterSense labeled, dual -flush toilets to Fort Worth residents in 2016. The water conservation staff also began using a geographic information system (GIS) to target properties to receive free WaterSense labeled toilets for replacement based on the age of buildings that might have older toilets installed. To reach Fort Worth's commercial customers, the department provided free facility water evaluations through its SmartWater Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional (ICI) Assessment Program. Department staff identified water -saving opportunities and made recommendations projected to save more than 11 million gallons of water, based on WaterSense's suggested best management practices for commercial and institutional facilities. • 2016 —WaterSense Excellence in Education and Outreach Award Winner -The City of Fort Worth earned an Excellence Award for Education and Outreach in 2015 for events that reached a range of audiences. During Fix a Leak Week 2015, Fort Worth partnered with a local running club to host its first 5- kilometer "Chasing Leaks, Fixing Flappers" running race. Several area WaterSense partners and EPA helped with outreach before and during the event. The event included educational activities and demonstrations explaining to the 150 racers and other visitors how to find and fix leaks and showing how much water a leaking toilet can waste in a week. Another effort targeting toilets is the city's SmartFlush Toilet Program, through which more than 4,000 WaterSense labeled toilets were distributed to residential and commercial customers. 6.2 WATER RATE STRUCTURE The City of Fort Worth has conservation -oriented water rate structures in place. The City's current rate structure consists of the following six classes: April 2019 6_2 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth • Residential • Commercial • Industrial • Super User (phased out after 2019) • Irrigation • Gas Well Use FORT WORTH® Each customer is first charged a flat rate based on meter size as outlined in Table 6-1. Usage charges are then assessed according to customer class as show in Table 6-2 to Table 6-7. The rate structures for all customer classes are designed to encourage water conservation, and an increasing block rate structure is in place for residential and irrigation classes to reduce peak usage. The City analyzes each customer class and sets rates in proportion to those classes which place the most demands upon the water system. The rates shown in the tables below were effective as of January 1, 2018 and are subject to change as the City continues to refine its rate structures to improve the impact on water conservation and manage the cost of service most effectively. TABLE 6-1: MONTHLY METER CHARGES Meter Size Service Charge Service Charge TABLE 6-2: RESIDENTIAL WATER RATES Monthly Volume Inside City Limits Outside City Limits _F_irst_6 CCF _ $2.12 per CCF $2.65 per CCF 6 CCF to 18 CCF $2.97 per CCF $3.71 per CCF 18 CCF to 30 CCF $3.79 per CCF $4.74 per CCF Above 30 CCF $4.56 per CCF $5.70 per CCF Note: 1 CCF (hundred cubic feet) = 748.05 gallons TABLE 6-3: COMMERCIAL WATER RATES Inside City Limits Outside City Limits All volumes 1 $2.54 per CCF 1 $3.18 per CCF TABLE 64: INDUSTRIAL WATER RATES Inside City Limits � Outside City Limits April 2019 6-3 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth All volumes $2.50 per CCF $3.13 per CCF TABLE 6-5: SUPER USER WATER RATES (PHASED OUT AFTER 2019) Inside City Limits Outside City Limits All volumes $2.48 per CCF I $3.10 per CCF TABLE 6-6: IRRIGATION WATER RATES Monthly Volume Inside City Limits Outside City Limits First 50 CCF $2.99 per CCF $3.74 per CCF 50 to 100 CCF $3.40 per CCF $4.25 per CCF Above 100 CCF $4.25 per CCF $5.31 per CCF TABLE 6-7: GAS WELL RATES Inside City Limits Outside City Limits All volumes I $5.85 per CCF $7.31 per CCF 6.3 RESERVOIR SYSTEM OPERATION Fort Worth is a raw water customer of Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD). As such, TRWD is responsible for operation of their reservoir system which consists of seven major reservoirs — Lake Bridgeport, Eagle Mountain Lake, Lake Worth, Cedar Creek Reservoir, Richland -Chambers Reservoir, Lake Arlington and Lake Benbrook. TRWD's reservoir system operation plan seeks to maximize efficiency of water withdraws within the constraints of existing water rights. Other priorities include maintaining water quality and minimizing potential impacts on recreational users, fish, and wildlife. Each reservoir is operated on a policy of flood release above the conservation elevation. TRWD coordinates its Operation Plan with all of its water customers and provides recommendations for the operations of regional treatment systems including the City of Fort Worth. For more information regarding TRWD's Reservoir System Operation please refer to TRWD's Water Conservation Plan, 6.4 IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT The City of Fort Worth completes the TCEQ required Water Conservation Implementation Reports by May 1 of each year. The report includes various water conservation strategies that have been implemented, including the date of implementation. Additionally, the report includes progress made on the five and ten year per capita water use goals from this Plan. If the goals are not being met, Fort Worth must document why not. The amount of water saved is also documented in this report. April 2019 6-4 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH. City of Fort Worth 6.5 REQUIREMENT FOR WATER CONSERVATION PLANS BY WHOLESALE CUSTOMERS The wholesale service area includes 33 customers. In 2017 there were estimated to be approximately 440,000 people within the combined wholesale customer service area. Table 6-8 shows each wholesale customerI the amount of water purchased from the City in 2017, and whether they are also a wastewater customer. TABLE 6-8: WHOLESALE CUSTOMERS Wholesale Customer Aledo Bethesda WSC Benbrook Burleson Crowley DFW Airport Dalworthington Gardens Edgecliff Village Everman Forest Hill Grand Prairie Haltom City Haslet Hudson Oaks (future) Hurst Keller Kennedale Lake Worth North Richland Hills Northlake Richland Hills River Oaks Roanoke Saginaw Sansom Park Southlake Trophy Club MUD #1 Trinity River Authority (TRA) Westlake Westover Hills Westworth Village White Settlement Willow Park (future) �\ Total 2017 Usage Wastewater (MG) Customer 124.5 No 1,012.9 Yes o.o No 1,678.0 Yes 662.1 Yes 329.6 No 99.5 No 154.7 Yes 0.0 Yes 394.2 Yes 689.8 I No 1,594.1 Yes 1912 No 0 No 1,893.5 Yes 2,957.7 No 63.1 Yes 203.6 Yes 2,127.E Yes 103.2 Yes 264.2 Yes 0.0 Yes 566.6 No 1,028.0 Yes o.o Yes 3,256.0 No 764.7 No 0.0 Yes 450.2 No 194.9 Yes 111.3 Yes 487.3 Yes 0 No 21,404 April 2019 6-5 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® 110 Each of the City's wholesale customers is contractually obliged to develop, implement, and update Water Conservation Plans or conservation measures using the applicable requirements of TCEQ Water Conservation Plans, Drought Contingency Plans, Guidelines and Requirements, Texas Administrative Code 30 TAC Chapter 288(a)(2)(C). Each of the City's wholesale customers are also contractually obligated to adopt any mandatory measures in this plan such as time of day restrictions and the year-round twice per week watering schedule. The City has sent a copy of its Water Conservation and Drought Contingency plans to each of its wholesale customers to aid with the development of their plans. The conservation goals as outlined in this section of the Water Conservation Plan are intended as guides for the wholesale customers. When existing contracts are renewed and new contracts are signed, requirements for implementation of water conservation plans will be incorporated into the respective wholesale customer contracts. The City expects each wholesale customer to voluntarily reduce its water use through conservation practices. The targets in Table 6-9 below are recommended for each wholesale customer. The City encourages each wholesale customer to implement conservation plans which reduce water use within 10% of the target goals. TABLE 6-9: WHOLESALE CUSTOMER TARGETS Water Loss Total GPCD Residential Per GPCD Connection Per Day By 2024 135 85 105* By 2029 129 80 100* * Nonrevenue water targets orebased on the newAWWA wateraudit practices which approve the performance indicator for water losses as gallons lost per connection per day. This includes real and apparent losses. The commonly used percentage is not recommended as it is too variable depending on usage. These are guidelines and are related to the average wholesale customerin a yearof average rainfall. These are voluntaryguidelines. The City requests that each wholesale customer provide a copy of their Water Conservation Plan and required water system audit (as required by the Texas Water Development Board water audit reporting requirement as specified by House Bill 3338) to the City of Fort Worth. This will be required in any new contracts developed with wholesale customers as specified in 30 TAC Chapter 288. In 2000 the City of Fort Worth's Wholesale customers accounted for slightly over a quarter of the raw water pumped. In 2017 the wholesale customers accounted for approximately a third of the raw water pumped. As needed, Fort Worth will hold meetings with their wholesale customers to provide information April 2019 6-6 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth on Fort Worth's program and conservation best management practices. Additionally, Fort Worth holds meetings with the conservation staff of TRWD to facilitate collaboration and align messaging. 6.6 COORDINATION WITH REGIONAL WATER PLANNING GROUPS The City has been working with the local Regional Water Planning Groups (Region C and G) to help develop the water conservation plan documents. This Water Conservation Plan has been discussed with Regional Water Planning Group consultants and is consistent with their methodology and structure. Letters documenting that a copy of the Water Conservation Plan was sent to the Chairs of the Region C and G Water Planning Groups are attached in Appendix D. April 2019 5-� Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth 7.0 ADDITIONAL CONSERVATION EFFORTS 7.1 WATER -CONSERVING PLUMBING FIXTURES The City of Fort Worth adopted the 2015 International Plumbing Code, with the following language to be consistent with the 1.28 gallon toilet requirement of the Texas Health and Safety Code, Title 5, Subtitle B, Chapter 372 effective January 11 2014. *IPC Section 604.4. 1; added to read as follows: 604:4.1 State maximum flow rate. Where the State mandated maximum flow rate is more restrictive than those of this section, the State flow rate shall take precedence. The 2015 International Plumbing Code was formally adopted by the City Council and included in the Code of Ordinances. This code encourages water conservation through the requirement that all toilets sold, offered for sale or distributed must be a dual flush toilet that may not exceed 1.28 gallons per flush on average or for one full flush. The projected demands for Fort Worth that will be included in the 2021 Region C WaterPlan will account for the new plumbing code requirement. The City routinely inspects new construction, remodeling, add-ons, etc., through building permits to ensure installation of fixtures adheres to current codes. The City has several programs to encourage the replacement of high water use fixtures, the SmartFlush voucher program and SmartFlush commercial program. The City also has the CARE program for low income and elderly customers for toilet replacement. Since 2009 these programs combined to distribute nearly 45,000 toilets. 7.2 REUSE The City of Fort Worth currently has a direct reuse program in place at its Village Creek Water Reclamation Facility which supplies reuse water to Dallas -Fort Worth Airport, Arlington and Euless. The reuse program is a component of the City's vision to manage its water resources in the most efficient manner. TRW D has a Texas water right allowing the diversion of return flows of treated wastewater from the Trinity River. The water will be pumped from the river into constructed wetlands for treatment and then pumped into Richland -Chambers Reservoir and Cedar Creek Reservoir. The wetlands project will ultimately provide 115,500 acre-feet per year, of which 10,000 acre-feet per year can be supplied from existing facilities. A portion of this indirect reuse is provided to the City of Fort Worth. April 2019 7-1 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth 7.3 LANDSCAPE WATER MANAGEMENT FORT WORTH. The City has an existing ordinance which prohibits wasting water. This ordinance prohibits watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. year-round. In addition, the Irrigation Ordinance requires that only licensed irrigators alter existing or install new irrigation systems within Fort Worth. The .City has adopted ordinances to require rain and freeze sensors on new irrigation systems. The City is piloting a program of irrigations to controllers with the intent to evaluate effectiveness. Based on the results of this pilot program the City may incentivize or encourage certain irrigation controllers. The City and other regional water providers (North Texas Municipal Water District, Tarrant Regional Water District, Upper Trinity Regional Water District, and the City of Dallas) have collaborated and agreed upon implementing a year-round no more than twice per week watering schedule although not all their wholesale customers have adopted mandatory schedules. The City has a mandatory year-round twice per week water schedule similar to Stage 1 of its drought plan. The schedule is included as Table 7-1. Water savings from a year-round no more than twice per week watering schedule vary depending on climate and enforcement, and are expected to be lower outside of drought periods. With the implementation of the MyH2O, staff will be able to identify potential non-compliance with the watering schedule and may utilize this data for education and enforcement. TABLE 7-1: YEAR-ROUND TWICE PER WEEK WATERING SCHEDULE Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Residential Residential Residential Residential No outdoor Non- addresses addresses Non- addresses addresses watering residential ending in ending in residential ending in ending in (01214)618) (11315)719) (012,41618) (1,3151719) 7.4 CONSERVATION PROGRAMS FOR INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTS The City contracts with a vendor to offer comprehensive audits to these customers. These audits generally consist of a review of the current water use for the customer, their processes, and an audit of their irrigation system (if applicable). All of the analysis from the report is then summarized into a report detailing recommended improvements, the cost, savings and return on investment. Based on analysis performed by the vendor prior to 2014, the program can account for savings of approximately 65-80 million gallons annually at an approximate cost of $2.35 per thousand gallons. The City has subsequently contracted with Alan Plummer Associates, Inc., who was tasked with reviewing all of the audits associated April 2019 7-2 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH. City of Fort Worth with the Smart Water ICI Program, and evaluating their potential water savings. Between Fiscal Year 2011 and 2017, Alan Plummer found that an average of 36 audits were performed each year, resulting in estimated average savings of approximately 55 mon gallons per year. In 2007, the City commissioned a 10-Year Water Conservation Master Plan, which recommended several ICI programs, including cooling tower retrofits and pre -rinse spray valve retrofit. That 2007 plan assisted the City in implementing those two programs and dozens of others. 7.5 ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is generally comprised of: • Equipment that enables meters to be read remotely rather than physically, • A communications network that delivers the meter data to a database, and • Software systems to receive and store the data, providing staff the ability to view and analyze the data and bill customers for their usage. AMI technology has been the standard at electric utilities for many years. Until recently, the limitation for water utilities has been the source of power. New battery technology with extended service life and smaller size is enabling water utilities to move forward with AMI programs and reap the benefits of leveraging granular water consumption data. Additional benefits of AMI include greater ability to: • Respond faster to indications of leaks or main breaks, • Operate with greater efficiency and transparency, and • Add customer services that are delivered in digital platforms in addition to (or instead of) the existing paper and telephone platforms. When used to its full capability, AMI has the potential to change the way customers and water utilities interact, now they see water consumption data, understand their water use and act on it. any cities have begun to test these systems through pilot programs. Like Fort Worth, some cities are changing their business processes to reframing its perspective of data acquisition and leverage the use of the data that will be available through AMI, , and moving forward to implement programs that maximize the benefits A AMI. April 2019 7-3 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH. While AMI is much more than a meter replacement program, most water utilities start by replacing- their meters. The physical components are easier to understand and can help ease a utility into the change management process. Installation of AMI-ready meters began in Fort Worth in 2016 at new construction locations or when an existing meter needed replacing. Many of those are large meters, 3-inches to 10- inches, and used mostly at industrial and commercial properties. The business case estimated switching the large meters would result in a 15 percent increase in revenue. Preliminary analysis of affected accounts confirms this. The AMI system is capable of providing near -real-time hourly water data that can be used to identify leaks or other anomalies in water use. The water utility could use this data to compare the amount of water treated, pumped and delivered to the amount purchased, helping to pinpoint system defects or other sources of nonrevenue water loss. AMI water meters can alert the system when they have been tampered with or when the battery fails, potentially reducing apparent water loss and unbilled consumption. Fort Worth is designing its MyH2O AMI systems to provide a valuable education component where a customer could view a "portal" of their previous, current, and projected water use, offering web -based video tools and conservation tips. The portal features proposed will allow customers to manage multiple accounts on one screen. There are costs associated with AMI systems, primarily in the capital cost to convert to these systems, as well as the operations and maintenance (O&M) costs to manage the data they provide, and the software systems licenses and support required. City staff has identified and been approved of State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT) financing for Fort Worth's MyH2O Program. The program is designed to be delivered to all of the utility's 260,000-plus accounts in multiple phases over the next few years. For Fort Worth, the proposed changes in the way meter reads are delivered is creating a ripple effect in business process changes. After a careful review of more than 35 business processes impacted by MyH2O and a systems design for the integration, Fort Worth staff is working on a limited deployment to test processes, integrations and communication network, to start the summer of 2019. The City of Fort Worth is poised to realize the many benefits of AMI in a multitude of sectors, including: • Reducing apparent water loss, • Reducing real water loss, April 2019 7-4 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth • Advancing water conservation, • Improving operational efficiencies for meter reading and field investigations, • Streamlining asset conon assessments, • Improving the customers' experience, • Leveraging the use of data, and • Enhancing transparency. Business Model FORT WORTH® Converting to AMI can positively impact a utility's business model. Fort Worth's operating efficiencies and benefits range from improving financial forecasting, enabling data -driven decisions such as right sizing water mains, prioritizing water main replacement or recognizing when an aging water meter needs to be replaced to reducing truck rolls, improving employee safety by reducing claims and injuries, and reducing the number of customer calls. The benefits of enhancing the customer experience and providing new additional services to industrial, commercial and institutional customers will enhance the utility's business model and benefit the relationship between the customer and the utility. Fort Worth projected the Return on Investment (ROI) prior to committing to the SWIFT financing. The project is expected to pay for itself in less than 7 years. Water meters typically fail by underreporting usage, which contributes to a utility's apparent loss. Fort Worth is replacing all retail water meters system- wide (approximately 260,000 accounts), and this is expected to reduce the amount of apparent water loss and real water loss. Operating efficiencies contribute to the ROI by reducing the number of customer calls and field investigations through increased self -serve portal usage and improved work order management system streamlining field activities. Water Conservation Using the data acquired through an AMI system supports water conservation by offering customers the ability to view hourly water usage online. This helps to connect behaviors with the usage and the monthly Al. Equipping customers with more granular data and enhancing online conservation programs is expected to result in a decrease in per capita demand. April 2019 7-5 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH. City of Fort Worth Using the acquired data, the utility can better manage water by identifying and responding to system defects sooner. Data comparisons and analysis of produced water versus purchased water can help pinpoint water losses that may occur in the City's distribution system. Analysis of trends in an account'3 water consumption may indicate a meter needs to be replaced. Customer Service Customer service is the primary interface between the customer and the utility and therefore is critical for the implementation of new and existing programs. Fort Worth values its level of customer service and was recently recognized by J.D. Powers' as the highest in the nation in communications. For its MyH2O Program, Fort Worth interviewed a sampling of retail and commercial/industrial customers to gain insight into what enhancements they would embrace. All customers expressed a concern for the elderly who may not be digitally connected, and Fort Worth continues to serve customers through paper billing, offering optional e-bill registration for customers that want to reduce paper. The features planned for the portal are geared for self-service payments, water usage data retrieval, and conservation education. Services that are planned to be phased in may include online account set up and scheduling appointments for field services. As already mentioned, one of the many benefits to the customer is the ability to monitor their usage through a web portal, and to receive alerts about leaks and/or high use thresholds. Additionally, manual meter reading typically has meter reading cycles between 28 and 35 days. This results in a hypothetical situation where customers' usage between reads over 35 days can be higher than they are used to and can put them in a higher, more expensive tiered rate. AMI eliminates this problem, since AM] meters can be read at consistent intervals. Data Security Customers are increasingly concerned with the security of their personal data. In Fort Worth, data will be encrypted before it is sent through a secure network on a dedicated frequency. Only the meter reading with a system identification code is transmitted. No customer information is accessible or communicated through the data network. 7.5.1 Fort Worth Water's MyH21 April 2019 7-6 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® Leadership at Fort Worth embraces the many benefits that AMI can bring and is in the process of deploying a robust program that captures all of those many benefits. Specific benefits that Fort Worth is seeking to realize include: • Improving the customer experience, • Advancing water conservation, • Streamlining business processes, • Enhancing transparency, • Leveraging the use of data, and • Reducing water loss. Fort Worth Water has taken advantage of SWIFT funding to finance the program. This partnership fulfills TWDB's commitment to furthering conservation in Texas by using 20% of SWIFT funds for conservation projects'. The successful implementation of Fort Worth's AMI program will put them among the few cities of its size to do so and will contribute to the state water plan's expectation of municipal water conservation providing 19 percent of the 2060 municipal water supply needs. As part of Fort Worth's long- standing tradition of engaging the community, MyH2O has been developed to inform stakeholders of any developments within the AMI program, and to solicit feedback about the deployment. Fort Worth is implementing its MyH2O Program in multiple phases over several years: • Phase 1: Planning, Systems Design, and Acquisition of Network Equipment • Phase 2: Initial Deployment • Phases 3 & 4: City -Wide Deployment • Phase 5: Clean -Up and Close -Out 7.6 ADDITIONAL PRACTICES, METHODS, AND TECHNIQUES 7.6.1 Internal City Water Conservation Effort The City has implemented water conservation measures internally within City Hall and at a number of its other buildings and parks and will continue to do so over the next five-year planning period. This includes retrofits of toilets, faucets, and showerheads, and development of a landscape program in conjunction April 2019 7-7 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® with the Parks and Community Services Department. The City will also continue to analyze water savings from these measures. The City will also promote demonstration gardens such as the Water Conservation Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens. 7.6.2 Graywater Residential graywater use (i.e., recycling water within the home using a dual plumbing system) is another potential water supply. The Texas Administrative Code Chapter 210 has rules governing the use of graywater for domestic purposes, industrial, commercial or institutional purposes and irrigation. At this time this practice is not considered economically feasible on a large residential scale, however it may be evaluated on a case -by -case basis for other customer classes. Rules are in place in the City's adopted plumbing code and used on a limited basis. 7.6.3 Rainwater Harvesting and Condensate Reuse Rainwater harvesting and condensate reuse provide a potential source of supply that could be used for non -potable purposes such as landscape irrigation. Large properties with this potential supply could offset a portion of their irrigation demand depending on the storage capacity. Rainwater and condensate reuse should be evaluated on a case -by -case basis to determine if it is cost effective for large properties. At this time the City will not implement a rebate/giveaway program, but the City will continue to educate the public about the possibility of rain water harvesting and direct them to classes such as the Master Gardeners. 7.6.4 Weather Stations TRWD has developed an interactive weather station program to install weather stations throughout its service area to provide consumers with a weekly e-mail and information through a website in determining an adequate amount of supplemental water that is needed to maintain healthy grass in specific locations. This service will provide the public advanced information regarding outdoor irrigation needs, thereby reducing water use. Through a series of selections on the type of irrigation system a consumer has, a weekly email that will tell the customer how long (in minutes) an irrigation system needs to run based on the past seven days of weather. This recommendation provides the actual amount of supplemental water that is required for a healthy lawn based on research of the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service and proven technologies. Fort Worth will promote this program, encourage its retail and wholesale customers to participate in the program, and make the information available through its website. As of February 2019, over 1,000 Fort Worth residents had signed up for this program. April 2019 7-8 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth 7.6.5 GIS tools FORT WORTH, GIS is a powerful analysis tool to analyze data with a spatial component. Conservation staff will begin working with GIS staff in the water department to build a database for water conservation (including program participation, water use, violations etc.). The GIS tools available could be as simple as identifying target areas for retrofit program based on the Tarrant County Appraisal District data, to as detailed as tying water use to each individual parcel within the City. Figure 74 shows the year built of homes within the Fort Worth city limits. Those areas shaded in purple represent homes that were built prior to 1990 and potentially to have older high use plumbing fixtures. Areas shaded in orange were built between 1990-2000, while those shaded in red were built after 2000. As the amount of data continues to increase and with the possibility of Advanced Metering Infrastructure, GIS is a potential tool to manage the data and identify where water conservation, leak detection and meter replacement programs should be targeted to achieve the greatest savings. April 2019 7-9 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH" City of Fort Worth FIGURE 74m CITY OF FORT WORTH PARCEL YEAR BUILT JA FIGURE. 7-I CITY OF FORT WORTH PARCEL YEARS BUIL"I' 6[GE\D n [J w, FREESE O MICHOL �YNICHOLS 111 OFF Its Ire AtFFm OIL IN iAg a A FAIL IF 1. OA AID WA In { s r; _ I i ✓ t Ali LJ 0 _ 04 At Fit - FL L- i For <! , �`i IF A Orr viA a L `Am, IF A, INA / AI i N April 2019 71-A10 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth 8.0 POTENTIAL FUTURE CONSERVATION PROGRAMS 8.1 CUSTOMER CHARACTERIZATION One of the newer BMPs proposed by the Water Conservation Advisory Council (WCAC) is Customer Characterization, which is the practice of analyzing a utility's customer data trends towards the purpose of realizing targeted water savings. Undertaking a Customer Characterization allows the utility to better understand how water is used within its service area, to recognize the differences between various subsects within its customer base, and to facilitate positive experiences between the utility and the customer that inform both parties of their respective values and familiarize high water users with ways to reduce their usage. Just as the motivations for deploying an AMI program will be different across utilities, each utility's purpose for embarking on Customer Characterization will be different, and the analysis should be crafted with their specific goal(s)in mind. Customer Characterization is one of the most effective tools for tailoring a utility -wide conservation program, because it yields actionable insight and stimulates community conversation. For instance, if a utility's strategic plan calls for delaying the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant, then that utility would want to formulate the analysis to identify and connect with older homes with higher winter (indoor) water usage patterns. If a utility's goal is to reduce/maintain peak demand during hot and dry periods, then its analysis should focus on identifying and connecting with customers with higher summer consumption and/or whose attributes indicate a proclivity for higher summer consumption. Finally, if a utility is concerned about total growth in annual demand, its Customer Characterization process should be structured around identifying and connecting with customers displaying the largest increase in annual usage. While the first scenario would use housing age data, the second and third scenarios could take into account a number of different datasets for comparison, including but not limited to customer class, home size, meter size, home value, lot size, and zip code/Census tract/Traffic Analysis Zone. City of Fort Worth and Freese and Nichols (FNI) have completed a preliminary Customer Characterization as a part of this Water Conservation Plan, for the purpose of assisting the utility in evaluating its current and future BMPs. The team started by collecting water usage and meter size data for all single family residential accounts within ten diverse and representative zip codes in the City of Fort Worth (Figure 8- 1). Account holders' names were removed from all datasets. The next step was preparing the data, by removing accounts with anomalous or incomplete data, and formatting it to be uniform and useful. This April 2019 8-1 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth resulted in a final count of more than 80,000 individual single-family residential accounts within the ten zip codes over the period of 2016-2018. Once the data was thoroughly prepared in a manner to allow for flexible and robust analysis, the team conferred to ensure that the analysis would be conducted with the appropriate goal in mind. Since the City of Fort Worth was interested in understanding peak demand patterns, FNI tailored the analysis to focus on monthly versus annual usage. City of Fort Worth was also interested in whether home value correlated with median monthly usage per account. The results of that analysis are shown below in Figure 8-2 through Figure 8-5. April 2019 8-2 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH® FIGURE 8-1: ZIP CODES FOR CUSTOMER UHARAUTERIZATION 4 I rti%j f. - ly 1 u I �� fail IYYi l -- � IFdYr is I IFe�l gar. i-..♦r1G ' lip• -r—'" 4 1 1 r- i Y7r1Io 7a1aa— I' Lam Irat c oNta. l µData Ili f �ri G 1�1 I ryIY' I Y _ Legend Y heighhorhoods Selected Zip_Codes Fort Worth City Limits Ii.5 1 2 3 4 WIlej April 2019 8-3 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth FORT WORTH FIGURE 8-2: RESIDENTIAL MEDIAN MONTHLY CONSUMPTION PER ACCOUNT 20,000 Ln 0 18,000 b 16,000 c 14,000 01 ou 12,000 Q 10,000 a.r c 8,000 6,000 E 4,000 Ln 0 2,000 U 0 c--I r-I r-1 r-I r-I r-I r-I c-I ri r-I r-I r-I r-I c--I ri r-I ri c-I O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N rrmi r\-I r\I r\-I VIA rH r i rmi r i �i c ii �i rrmi rrmi m Ln r"� m rrml r\l m Ln r� m rr-1 rrmi M m r� m r\i ri ri rl 76103 �-_� 76105 - 76108 76109 76110 76120 76133 76164 76179 76244 FIGURE 8-3: AVERAGE MEDIAN MONTHLY CONSUMPTION PER ACCOUNT (2016-2018) _ 16,000 N C O 14,000 cz 12,000 0 10,000 U Q 8,000 L v 6,000 0 4,000 2,000 0 U 0 C Q O Qi Q O 0 z o 76103 � -76105 76108 76109 76110 76120 76133 76164 76179 76244 April 2019 8-4 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth 120,000 c 0 100,00u +J 80,000 Q v c 60,000 0 a. E 40,000 0 0 m) 20,000 FORT WORTH® FIGURE 8-4: MEDIAN ANNUAL CONSUMPTION PER ACCOUNT 76103 76105 76108 76109 76110 76120 76133 76179 76244 ■ 2016 a-� 2017 !_12018 FIGURE 8-5: AVERAGE MEDIAN ANNUAL CONSUMPTION VS. HOME VALUE INDEX $450,000 $400,000 $350,000 x v $300,000 a, Fu $250,000 v o $200,000 o $150,000 N $100, 000 $50,000 iffil 0 20,000 40,000 ♦ 76244 12 ♦ 76179 ♦ V 76� 08 7&w 76133 ♦ 76105 60,000 80,000 100,000 Consumption per Account (gallons) ♦ 76109 120,000 April 2019 8-5 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth Embarking on a preliminary Customer Characterization analysis for the City of Fort Worth revealed a number of findings: • 16109 demonstrates higher peak demand and annual usage than the sample of other zip codes. • Home value is correlated with water usage. • While water usage by accounts with 5/8" meters was relatively flat across zip codes, water usage by accounts with 1" and 1 %" meters was significantly higher within 76109, and there is a much higher number of accounts with 1"and 1 %" meters within 76109. • 76109 demonstrated a significant increase in median annual consumption per account between 2016 and 2018, while 76244, 76103, 76133, and 76179 exhibited a moderate increase and the other zip codes showed a nominal increase. These insights provide direction to Fort Worth staff about where to target BMPs focusing on reducing peak demand, based on the monthly usage patterns seen in 76109 and to some extent 76244 and 76179. Reducing annual demand could be achieved by both targeting programs on a geographic basis (increases in annual demand seen in 76109, 76244, 76103, 76133, and 76179), within subsects of a geographic area (significantly higher use among 1" and 1 %2" meters in 76109), as well as across its service area based on a specific attribute (home value). Findings such as these, will allow the City to target programs towards subsets of customers where the greatest potential savings may be achieved. This is merely a preliminary step in the Customer Characterization process. City of Fort Worth may regularly update this characterization on an annual basis. Additionally, City of Fort Worth intends to perform Customer Characterization on its entire service area, to capture any opportunities outside of the ten zip codes evaluated in this preliminary analysis. Utilizing the MyH2O data this characterization can be conducted on a sub -monthly basis for certain subsets of the City. 8.2 LANDSCAPE ORDINANCES The City of Fort Worth is projected to have substantial population growth in the next fifty years. The additional population will require additional housing.' Review of existing landscape ordinances may be conducted through an inter -departmental process with regular meetings between departments. The process may include: • Review of the existing ordinances for alignment with the goals of this Plan. April 2019 8-6 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH© City of Fort Worth 1-1� • Benchmarking of the current landscape ordinance with ordinances from other cities promoting water conservation. • Identification of drought tolerant turf, groundcover, shrubs and trees that are allowed to be planted at new homes. • Integrating landscape ordinances and other outdoor conservation strategies into land use planning. • Providing opportunity for feedback from interested parties and citizens. The City intends to initiate the process of reviewing the existing landscape ordinances for potential to better align those ordinances with water conservation goals in the next five years. 8.3 LANDSCAPE AND IRRIGATION SYSTEM INCENTIVES The City of Fort Worth has proactively targeted programs towards indoor water use documented in this Water Conservation Plan through their ICI program and education measures. In an effort to address outdoor water use the City implemented their year-round twice per week watering schedule with the adoption of the 2014 Plan. City staff have identified outdoor water use reductions as the best opportunity to further reduce water consumption. Landscape Replacement Expenditures and water savings vary across utilities that utilize landscape replacement programs. Southern Nevada Water Authority has had a program since 1999 that has paid out more than $200 million in rebates, removing roughly 185 million square feet. Between 2009-2015, Los Angeles area agencies paid out more than $42 million, removing 15 million square feet. Approximately 1.5% of all single-family households in Los Angeles are participating, saving ^ 66,000 gallons per participating household per year. April 2019 8-7 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth Irrigatlon System Incentives FORT WORTH. Recent research has indicated a strong relationship between irrigation system capacity (total gallons per minute) and total water use. As irrigation system capacity increases, total water use tends to increase linearly. Based on this research programs or incentives that reduce the capacity of the irrigation system should be effective in reducing outdoor water use. Potential incentives include: • Irrigation nozzle replacement —converting traditional spray nozzles to MP Rotators which have a lower gallon per minute distribution rate. • Irrigation zone retrofits —changing irrigation zones from spray nozzles to drip irrigation with associated changes in landscaping from turf to landscaped beds. • Removing irrigation zones —capping and removing a zone from the irrigation system since that area has been converted and no longer requires irrigation. • Pressure Reducing Valves —these can be utilized for area with high pressure that cause misting anA irrigation nozzles to operate outside of the specified pressure. The City of Fort Worth intends to evaluate these types of landscape and irrigation system incentives in the next five years. 8.4 ADVANCED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT As the City of Fort Worth embarks on expanding the portfolio of conservation initiatives, community support will be essential. City staff intends to engage as many stakeholders as possible as early as possible to ensure success. Below is a list of potential new ways to stimulate conversation, although the City intends to continue running its current outreach programs, and consider other new engagement opportunities not listed below. Homebuilder/HOA Coordination Cultivating positive relationships with homebuilders and HOAs will be essential to potential ordinance changes identified in Section 8.2. During the conceptualization and development of the potential ordinance changes, early collaboration with this industry will help craft regionally appropriate language, and foster buy -in within the regulated sector. Establishing these connections will not only break down silos, but will also streamline the process of enforcing and refining the regulations. April 2019 8-8 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth Demonstration Gardens FORT WORTH® 1410 City of Fort Worth, in partnership with Texas Agri Life Extension Service, hosts a series of monthly free seminars designed to educate the community on ways to reduce discretionary usage. These are held at the demonstration garden at the Botanical Research Institute. Future expansion of this program to additional neighborhoods and facilities will continue to further awareness within the community. Leverage Community Organizations Utilities are increasingly recognizing that their Conservation staff cannot be in the community as often as needed. For this reason, the WCAC adopted the Partnerships with Nonprofit Organizations BMP, which recommends taking advantage of volunteer organizations with diverse memberships to bolster staff efforts. Contracts with County Master Gardeners, the Audubon Society, and many other organizations will help raise awareness within the community. These groups may be compensated for the amount of outreach they perform via "performance agreements" and are expected to deliver their results. They are paid a pre -approved amount that is modified according to event attendance. By activating knowledgeable members of the community, a utility can increase the number of customer interactions, reduce the unit cost of those interactions, and the partner organizations benefit from greater exposure with the community. Collaborate with Affordability Partners Working with other agencies to take advantage of their existing systems to connect with low income residents can help magnify the number of customers enlisted. City staff can create pipelines with Councilmembers' Offices, County officials, electric utility affordability programs, and others. Bolstering a strong affordability program will help minimize the impacts to customers from rate adjustments, and can provide a conservation benefit as well. Some affordability programs such as a plumbing assistance program will directly reduce water usage, while other affordability programs might be another avenue that City of Fort Worth uses to distribute conservation messaging. April 2019 g-9 Water Conservation Plan City of Fort Worth 8.5 IRRIGATION DESIGN CRITERIA FORT WORTH. As part of the requirement that all new irrigation systems be in compliance with state design and installation regulations (Texas Administrative Code Title 30, Chapter 344) the City of Fort Worth reviews irrigation design during development reviews. The reviews verify that the landscape design meets state and City standards. In the future, it is possible that the City may align their design criteria with best practices identified in Section 8.3. The City of Fort Worth may evaluate these design standards in an effort to align them with water conservation program goals in the next five years. April 2019 8-10 Water Conservation Plan FORT WORTH® City of Fort Worth ).0 ADOPTION OF WATER CONSERVATION PLAN; PERIODIC REVIEW AND UPDATE OF PLAN Opportunity for public comment on the plan was provided at a City of Fort Worth City Council meeting on April 9, 2019. Appendix E contains a copy of the minutes of the April 9, 2019 City Council meeting at which this Water Conservation Plan was adopted. TCEQ requires that water conservation plans be reviewed and, if necessary, updated every five years to coincide with the regional water planning process. This Water Conservation Plan will be updated as required by TCEQ and, in addition, will be continually reassessed for opportunities to improve water efficiency and conservation based on new or updated information. April 2019 9-1 City of Fort Worth, Texas Mayor and Council C� • �� �� unication DATE: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 REFERENCE NO.: G-19522 LOG NAME: 60DROUGHT AND CONSERVATION PLAN SUBJECT: Adopt Ordinance Amending Chapter 35, Water and Sewers, Article 1, Section 23, Subsection (b) to Adopt a Revised Drought Contingency/Emergency Water Management Plan and Article VI, Section 151 and Approve a Resolution Adopting a Revised Water Conservation Plan (ALL COUNCIL DISTRICTS) RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that the City Council: 1. Adopt the attached ordinance amending the City Code Section 35-23(b) to adopt a revised Drought Contingency/Emergency Water Management Plan; and 2. Approve the attached resolution adopting the amended Water Conservation Plan. DISCUSSION: The City is required to submit an updated Water Conservation Plan and Drought Contingency and Emergency Water Management Plan to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) by May 1, 2019 in accordance with Title 30 of the Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 288. TCEQ requires the Water Conservation Plan be adopted by a resolution by the City Council. Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance approving an amended Drought Contingency and Emergency Water Management Plan referenced in Section 35-23(b) of the City Code. The revised plan outlines water use restrictions that would be taken if water supply levels drop below a predetermined level, demand exceeds supply, a major system component is damaged or contamination occurs. This plan maintains three stages escalating in severity based on the situation. The plan stages and required actions remain unchanged. Additional verbiage has been added to each stage to indicate that data derived from the utility systems may be used to analyze use patterns and compliance. The Water Conservation Plan, to be adopted by resolution, outlines the City's year-round strategies for promoting efficient water use by all customers. The plan includes five-year and ten-year targets for water savings, including goals for reducing water use as measured in gallons per capita per day. Securing of future water supplies will require proving to state permitting agencies that existing water supplies are being used efficiently. This M&C does not request approval of a contract with a business entity. FISCAL INFORMATION /CERTIFICATION: The Director of Finance certifies that approval of this resolution will not have a material effect on City Logname: 60DROUGHT AND CONSERVATION PLAN Page I of 2 funds FUND IDENTIFIERS (FIDsR: TO Fund Department ccoun Project Program) ctivity Budget Reference # ID � � ID � � Year (Chartfield 2) FROM Fund Department ccoun Project Program ctivity Budget Reference # ID � � ID � Year � (Chartfield 2) CERTIFICATIONS: Submitted for City Manager's Office bv: Originating Department Head: Additional Information Contact: Jay Chapa (5804) Chris Harder (5020) Micah Reed (8211) �4moun� Logname: 60DROUGHT AND CONSERVATION PLAN Page 2 of 2