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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