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AWWA SOURCES66598
- System Development Fees: Equity Leads to Conservation in Westminster
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 02/01/2008
- Publisher: AWWA
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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of system development fees, or tap fees. The tap size method for assessing fees is presented, along with a comparison of two commercial customerseach with 2" meters, and drawbacks of tap size based fee. Assessing feescomponent costs, water resource service commitment, benchmarks/projected use, benefits of a separatewater resource fee, infrastructure costspeaking factors, benefits of using fixture units, irrigation fees, right sizing taps, and challenges and options of building in conservation are all presented. Summary:as more customer information becomesavailable, taps can be better sized andvalued;right sized taps and fees are an incentive forconservation;developers do not pay for water consumedat a facility after the project is complete;tap fees are one of the few tools that provideincentives for conservation to developers;conservation installed at the time ofconstruction is always the most costeffective; and,conservation is often value engineered out ofprojects as unnecessary if there is no benefit todevelopers. Includes tables, figures.