Section 5 Drought Response Actions Drought Response Plan

5.1 Program Actions by Stage

The table of drought stages and potential responses in Appendix A is meant to be a guide to water uses under various levels of water-shortage restrictions because of drought. Centennial Water reserves the right to modify these program elements as needed to meet changing water-supply conditions.

5.2 Drought Stage Severity Indicator Guidance Table

The recommendation by the Drought Response Committee to the Board is based on multiple sources of information including the drought severity indicators. The severity indicators are organized and summarized in the following Table 1, which is broken into the subcategories of quantitative indicators, qualitative indicators and additional information. The table is a guideline only of the possible indicators and considerations related to each stage of drought response and a tool for presenting the stage recommendation to the Board. There is no hard and fast rules on the selection of stages and all indicators should be considered together, subject to additional human reasoning.