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WATER SUPPLIES FROM OTHER AQUIFERS

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Other Aquifer

County Availability (AFY) over 100 years

WUG Supplies from Other Aq. (AFY)

Armstrong 2,960 Livestock - 30Childress 1,870 Irrigation - 744

Collingsworth 2,480 Livestock - 276Donley 3,830 Livestock - 383

Hall 8,680Livestock - 237

Irrigation - 7,948Total = 8,185

Wheeler 2,210 City of Wheeler - 453

Whitehorse/Quartermaster Formation Availability

Undifferentiated Aquifer

County Availability (AFY) WUG Supplies from Other Aq. (AFY)

Randall 40 Livestock - 40

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MUNICIPAL CONSERVATION

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Approach Screening of 68 BMPs

Cost Potential Water Savings Time to Implement Public Acceptance Technical Feasibility Staff Resources

Strategies selected based on: Cities > 20,000 pop Cities < 20,000 pop

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Cities < 20,000 Education and Outreach Water Audits and Leak Repair Conservation – Oriented Rate

Structure Water Waste Ordinance

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Cities > 20,000 Education and Outreach Water Audits and Leak Repair Conservation – Oriented Rate

Structure Water Waste Ordinance Landscape Ordinance Time of Day Watering Limit

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Assumptions for BMPs Different for Large vs Small Cities Water Savings Implementation Costs Adoption Rates for each BMP

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Summary Recommended for 35 WUGs

4 are > 20,000 2 County-Others (with needs) 29 Cities/WSCs < 20,000

Water savings: Low of 5 ac-ft/yr (Groom) High of 2,762 ac-ft/yr (Amarillo)

Costs: $250 to > $2,000 per ac-ft/yr

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Chapter 7 - Drought Droughts of Record

Impact on water supplies Current Drought Preparations Emergency Interconnects Emergency Responses Drought Triggers Model Drought Contingency

Plan

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Droughts of Record Reservoirs

Hydrologic modeling Run-of-River

Lowest annual stream flows Groundwater

Precipitation Palmer Drought Severity Indices

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Precipitation – High Plains

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PDSI – High Plains

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Droughts of Record Reservoirs

Meredith: 2000- current Palo Duro: 1973 - current Greenbelt: 1962 - current

Run-of-River 2011

Groundwater 2011 - current

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Current Drought Preparations All retail water and wholesale

providers must prepare and submit DCPs to TCEQ and RWPGs

PWPA received 8 DCPs – 2014 8 DCPs – previous RWPs

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Emergency Interconnects 3 existing interconnects Potential future interconnects

Survey to larger water providers Major existing infrastructure 15-mile radius

9 potential interconnects

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Emergency Responses Entities with pop <7500 and all

county other Single source of water Analysis

Survey entities - input Consider interconnect (15-mi

radius) Brackish groundwater review

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Drought Triggers Reservoirs

Adopt triggers and responses of reservoir owner DCP

Run-of-River Adopt triggers – Drought Monitor

Groundwater Adopt triggers - Drought Monitor

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Drought Responses Run-of River and Groundwater:

No. of triggers and responses match Drought Monitor

Responses are tied to entities DCP

Severe drought: Consider implementing alternate

supplies

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PWPG Updated Meeting Timeline Late January / Early February 2015

Draft Chapters 5 (WMS) Draft Chapter 11 (Implementation) Legislative Recommendations

Early April 2015 Initially Prepared Plan for approval

Mid to late March – provide copy

June 2015 Public Hearing on IPP

September 2015 Prioritization of 2016 WMS

Late October/Early November 2015 Final Plan for approval