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Contra Costa Water District Customers are Meeting Conservation Goal
For immediate release: September
15, 2009 For more
information: Contra Costa
Water District Customers are Meeting Conservation Goal: Customers Recognized for Exemplary Water
Conservation Efforts CONCORD – Responding to the call for a 15 percent reduction in
water use as part of a Drought Management Program, Contra Costa Water District
customers have reduced summer water usage by 18 percent overall. “Our
customers are showing how committed they are to water conservation,” said
General Manager Walter J. Bishop. At a
regular session on September 16, 2009, “the Board of Directors will recognize
four of those customers that have implemented conservation practices that can
be shared with other customers to help them achieve their own conservation
goals.” Customers Recognized City
of Concord
for proactively managing over 100 city-wide irrigation meters and reducing July-August
water use by 9.7 million gallons. David
Deutscher Company ( Roy
and Rosadelia Detwiler (Concord) for converting their front and back yards from
stretches of green lawn to a drought tolerant garden complete with water
features, a vegetable garden and a butterfly garden saving them over 160
gallons per day and reducing their water use by 30 percent. James
and Stacey Morikawa ( “Our customers are being extremely responsive to the reality that the state is in a third year of drought and may face more dry years ahead,” Bishop said. “Water conserved now will be supply insurance for next year should conditions remain dry.” Page
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Conservation Goal continued): Through August, 85 percent of the District’s treated-water customers maintained water use within their water budgets, saving water and money. Only about 15 percent, meanwhile, either increased water usage relative to historical use or failed to live within their requested water budget. The Board of
Directors meets in regular session at 6:30 p.m. on the first and third
Wednesday of each month at For more information about
the Drought Management Program and the District’s water conservation services,
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