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Douglas County water commissioners press consultants on demand assumptions, ‘paper’ water and supply risk
Summary
During a workshop on Feb. 23, commissioners questioned Forsgren Associates’ draft water-plan chapters about assumptions on per-capita demand (0.19 unit and county-average 1.67 GPCD), inclusion of 8,900 domestic wells (0.75 acre-feet per unit), and whether supply charts reflect paper water rights rather than economically producible supplies.
Commissioners at the Douglas County Water Commission workshop on Feb. 23 pushed Forsgren Associates and staff for more detail and scenarios in the county’s draft water plan, focusing on projected water demands, the treatment of domestic well users and whether supply figures overstate physically usable water.
Will Koger of Forsgren said the firm used the State Demography Office’s projections to calculate county demand rates and compared those figures to water-provider projections gathered via surveys. He told commissioners the 0.19 unit-per-capita figure in table 5‑3 was applied to the SDO population projection,…
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