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Pasco hears plan to cut potable water use 10% over next decade
Summary
City staff and RH2 Engineering presented a potable water use efficiency update that recommends keeping leakage at or below 10% and a goal to reduce average residential demand from about 330 to 300 gallons per ERU over the next 10 years, while continuing education and targeted customer leak notifications.
Ryan Withers of RH2 Engineering told the City Council and workshop attendees that Pasco’s potable water system shows a sharp seasonal peak in summer, using about 800,000,000 gallons in a peak month, compared with about 200,000,000 in winter. He said Washington’s water‑use‑efficiency rule (first adopted in 2003) requires metering, a program to maintain distribution leakage below 10 percent, and regular updates to the efficiency program. “The main requirements of the rule are to meter all of your source and service connections,” Withers said, “and to maintain less than 10% distribution system leakage.”
The consultant reviewed trends showing the…
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