Section 5 Drought Response Actions Drought

Response Plan

7. Promote voluntary “drinking water upon request” program for food service operations.

8. A table of drought stages and potential responses is presented in Appendix A.

Note: See Appendix C for potential response impacts to irrigated properties owned and managed by the Highlands Ranch Metro District.

Drought Pricing:

A Stage 2 Drought pricing program may be used to increase awareness of the drought’s severity and assist in meeting water-use reduction targets through pricing signals.

The drought pricing is developed by the Centennial Water Board as part of their annual budget process and is detailed in their rules and regulations. Before the drought pricing can be implemented or changed, Centennial Water must give 30 days notice to the public, in accordance with State Statutes.

Stage Exit Criteria:

The drought response committee will regularly monitor the Drought Severity Indicators to determine if multiple conditions have relieved the concerns that caused the drought stage to initially be recommended and adopted.

The committee will also consider if the lessening of the concerns due to changing conditions appear to be reasonably sustainable for the foreseeable future.

Upon the consensus of the drought response committee members that conditions are been significantly improving, and are likely to continue improving, the committee will make a recommendation to the Centennial Board of Directors to exit a drought stage, as appropriate.