I'm impressed!
As promised, the Carmichael Water District just sent us the 6-page results of the recent water audit that was done for us. The first two pages recapitulate the measurements of the auditor such as "Toilet #1 uses 2 gallons of water per flush" or "Toilet #2 was installed in 1992". There is a notation that no leak was detected but as I mentioned in the previous post, there was no attempt at detecting a leak so, of course, none was found.
The third and fourth pages compute our estimated usage with current practices and with the suggestions for saving water. Interestingly, those worksheet indicate that only 1/4 of our water usage is for indoor usage. The rest must be for watering our lawns, trees, and flower gardens, for which no water saving suggestions were made.
The fifth page of the audit compares our water bills for the past year as we actually paid them and as they would have been with a metered rate. Turns out that we would have paid $12.79 less per month with the metered rate.
Then the sixth bill estimates the savings in average water usage if we were to install the toilet tank reducers, faucet and shower flow restrictors, etc. She estimated we could save 500 cubic feet or 3,740 gallons in an average month. And this translates to.....(ta da !) $3.91 per month. I'm underwhelmed. I'm impressed with the audit but enderwhelmed with the result.
And she still didn't mention the largest savings we can probably make: cutting the size of our water feed from 1 inch to 3/4 inch.
If you were to save that much water every month, would that mean we could have it? The estimated saving (by making the changes) is about 5 days of usage for us, including pool, bigger yard, and 4 times the people!
ReplyDeleteSounds like there's a decimal point missing somewhere. I'll have to audit the audit.
ReplyDeleteArnold