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Water Services reviews system capacity and conservation gains; staff urge continued conservation to defer long‑term supply projects
Summary
Water staff summarized treatment and distribution capacity, current conservation success and long‑term supply planning, noting Flagstaff's GPCD has fallen and that conservation can delay the timeline for large new supplies such as Red Gap Ranch.
Water Services leaders briefed the council Feb. 25 on treatment plants, distribution infrastructure, reclaimed water operations, recent conservation gains and how conservation affects long‑term supply timing.
Why it matters: the city must balance current supply, consumption trends and planned projects to ensure water availability over a 100‑year planning horizon; conservation performance is a critical factor that can postpone or reduce the scale of expensive supply projects.
Section director Lee Williams described Water Services operations: two water treatment plants (Lake Mary Water Treatment Plant — up to 8 million gallons per day when fully operating — and the seasonal North Reservoir Filtration Plant near the Schultz Pass Y for Inner Basin snowmelt), approximately 21 million gallons of storage in reservoirs, booster stations to serve higher elevation…
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