From: Jimmy Thompson

Sent: Mon Aug 28 15:02:39 2017

To: Gerald Fisher

Cc: Elizabeth Klein; Dan Huff

Subject: Water/Sewer opportunity

Importance: Normal

Gerald,
Elizabeth had mentioned that perhaps there would be a benefit in so far as reducing the load on the sewer system by providing some sort of incentive for high efficiency toilets. I think most of our toilets would be new enough they would be the 1.6 gallon models, but I am sure there are some older ones around. Toilets can be expensive, in some cases even more than a few hundred dollars, making a return on investment take quite some time to materialize. Tank Banks on the other hand can reduce the water used to flush by 0.8 gallons, are simple to use, and only about $3.00 each.

We have made some significant increases to the water and sewer rates. They are separate, but, sewer rates are an average of the water consumption. Would there be any benefit to the city purchasing tank banks for citizens and giving them away to citizens? Kind of a win/win in helping citizens reduce their bills and reducing the load on the system.

It is a stretch perhaps, but if the average person flushes 5 times per day, saves 0.8 gallons per flush, that is 1,460 gallons saved per year per person; 14,600,000 gallons total per year for the 10,000 people in town. Even if the effort only produced a reduction in the load of 10,000,000 gallons, 2 of those tank banks per household would be about $5,600. Would such a reduction be significant enough to be of benefit to the operation?

Jimmy