From the Pagosa Sun (Randi Pierce):
With the holiday season quickly being relegated to memory, the Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation Board and Community Water Supply Workgroup will soon continue their comprehensive look into PAWSD fees at a third work session dedicated to the topic slated to take place Jan. 4…
At the first of the work sessions, held on Dec. 9, PAWSD and CWSW members discussed a number of items with engineers Patrick O’Brien of Briliam Engineering and Mike Davis of Davis Engineering, including items needed for the engineers to update the CIP and system model:
• Determining an acceptable calculation for water demand;
• Determining a correlation between water demand and use per equivalent unit, peak day;
• Determining if the full build-out condition or population projections should be used as the basis for modeling and cost projection; and
• Reviewing operation standards relating to water pressure, fire flow and water age…
The second work session, held on Dec. 15, afforded the group a chance to review the calculation for water demand, review the correlation between demand and use per EU, discuss and define “new growth” and how account holders should be credited for assessed water availability fees, and discuss inclusions.
With some minor changes in the formula agreed upon at the previous meeting, the group agreed to the calculation of water demand, with the agreement made that the chart would be updated on a regular basis.
The discussion then turned to peak day and water loss, which brought up the topic of how much water storage exists and how long district reserves would last.
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