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Provo presents updated water-conservation plan; aquifer recharge and AMI emphasized
Summary
Provo's water-resources team presented an updated five-year conservation plan showing per-capita use trending down to ~179 gallons/day and recommending aquifer recharge, advanced metering (AMI) and turf-replacement incentives; councilors asked for clearer timelines and noted the need to balance storage with ecosystem values.
Provo's water-resources director presented an updated Provo Watershed Conservation Plan, a state-required five-year update that the city will adopt formally at a later meeting.
Presenters said per-capita water use has trended downward and that Provo achieved a goal of about 179 gallons per capita per day in recent reporting. The plan emphasizes demand-management programs (public education, turf-trade seed and smart controllers), expanded automatic metering infrastructure (AMI) to detect leaks, and aquifer-storage and recharge as a priority to reduce evaporation losses and improve long-term reliability.
Councilors asked for more details on the implementation schedule and funding and warned that focusing solely on subsurface storage could be misunderstood as de-emphasizing surface-water ecosystems (for example, Utah Lake or the Great Salt Lake). Staff agreed to update timelines and table entries and to bring more complete watershed-protection materials to the next meeting. The water team also noted pending single-audit and program reporting items and invited councilors to follow up with the water division on modeling assumptions.
Next steps: staff will revise the plan to include clearer implementation timelines and to add trend charts (2021'024) to the packet before the formal adoption vote.
