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    The document summarizes LCRA's water conservation plan update. It outlines the requirements for a water conservation plan, goals to increase estimated annual water savings, strategies like incentives programs and promoting more efficient irrigation and landscaping, and the process for updating and approving the 2024 plan. The plan exceeded 2019 goals and staff intends to further increase savings targets in the updated 2024 plan.

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    LCRA Water Conservation

    Plan Update
    Water Operations Committee Meeting
    Feb. 21, 2024
    Water Conservation Plan Overview
    • Texas Commission on Environmental Quality requires a water
    conservation plan for:
    – Municipal, industrial and non-irrigation water rights more than
    1,000 acre-feet
    – Irrigation water rights more than 10,000 acre-feet

    • Goal
    – Ongoing, long-term water conserving initiatives

    1
    2024 Water Conservation Plan –
    Estimated Savings Goals
    2029 Five-year goal: 2034 10-year goal:
    Estimated annual savings Estimated annual savings
    Water use (acre-feet) (acre-feet)
    LCRA power plants 1,000* 1,100*
    Municipal 12,000* 15,000*
    Irrigation operations 18,000* 20,000*
    Total 31,300* 36,300*

    *Accumulated savings since 2012

    2
    2019 Water Conservation Plan –
    Goals and Actual Savings
    • Savings exceeded all 2019 water conservation plan goals
    • Staff intends to further increase savings in 2024 plan as
    part of required five-year update
    2019 goal: Estimated
    annual savings 2022 Actual savings
    Water use (acre-feet) (acre-feet)
    LCRA power plants 700 1,300
    Municipal 6,500 7,400
    Irrigation operations 15,000 16,500
    Total 22,200 25,200
    3
    Water Conservation Plan Strategies

    4
    Firm Water Conservation
    Incentives Program
    • Firm Water Conservation Cost-Share Program
    – Current program:
     Awarded more than $700,000 since 2019
     Total leveraged dollars equaled about
    $13 million
     Application deadlines in the spring and fall
    – Program potential:
     2,000 acre-feet savings by 2029
     4,000 acre-feet savings by 2034

    5
    Firm Water Conservation
    Incentives Program (Continued)
    • WaterSmart rebates
    – Current program:
     Awarded $200,000 since 2019
     Includes irrigation system evaluations,
    irrigation system equipment, pool and
    landscaping rebates
    – Program potential:
     500 acre-feet savings by 2029
     1,000 acre-feet savings by 2034

    6
    Municipal Conservation
    Strategies
    • Promote maximum once-per-week watering schedule
    • New incentive: Convert turf to native landscapes
    • Increase promotion and marketing efforts to:
    – Enhance program awareness
    – Expand customer base, eligibility and participation in
    Cost Share Program
    – Increase participation of rebate programs
    • Increase community’s awareness of water and the
    importance of the Highland Lakes to this region
    7
    Agricultural
    Conservation Strategies
    • Surcharges to discourage high water use
    • Automation and modernization of gates
    – Gulf Coast and Garwood agricultural
    divisions complete
    – Lakeside pilot project
    • Precision land leveling
    – Redesigned land leveling Cost Share
    Program launched in 2023
    • Canal lining evaluation
    8
    2024 Water Conservation Plan
    Update
    • Plan changes
    – Update five- and 10-year conservation goals
    – Evaluate/modify existing rules and strategies
    – Increase promotion and marketing efforts
    – Expand programs and customer participation
    • Next steps
    – February 2024: Post draft plan for public comment
    – April 2024: Present plan for LCRA Board action
    – May 1, 2024: Submit plan to Texas Commission on Environmental
    Quality and Texas Water Development Board 9

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