Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1) A
Demand Analysis Report will be filed on a form to be provided by the Authority
and will contain the following information:
(a) an estimate, on a total annual volume and
average and maximum daily volume basis, of the amount of water that the
community will require for the ten-year period following its contract
termination date, the basis for the estimated demand and the source for the
estimate;
(b) an estimate, also on
a total annual volume and average and maximum daily volume basis, of the
portions of water required during the proposed ten-year agreement period that
are to be obtained from both MDC/Authority sources and from existing or
proposed local sources. This same information shall also be provided, to the
extent possible, for the five-year period following the end of the proposed
ten-year agreement period;
(c) an
explanation of the seasonal and daily use factors built into the total annual
volume requested for the proposed ten-year agreement period and an estimate of
both the domestic and non-domestic and unaccounted-for components of this
annual volume;
(d) any existing
local projections of water need after the 15-year period following the
community's contract termination date;
(e) identification of all water users
consuming greater than 20 million gallons a year;
(f) a written analysis of existing or
anticipated trends, seasonal variations or other special characteristics of
population or employment which should be taken into account in determining
water demand for the community;
(g)
available projections of demographic and employment information for the
proposed ten-year agreement period;
(h) local water use and demand information
for the five-year period preceding the community's contract termination date,
including:
1. total annual water use and the
amounts used from both local sources and from MDC/Authority sources;
2. maximum daily demand information for each
year; and
3. an estimate of and the
components of the annual volume of unaccounted-for water; and
(i) a summary of the current and
planned local demand management programs the community will implement during
the proposed ten-year agreement period, including a discussion of efforts to
reach a goal of no more than 10% unaccounted-for water. An estimate of the
potential average daily volume of water to be saved through these programs
shall also be provided.
(2) A Supply Report will be filed on a form
to be provided by the Authority and contain the following information:
(a) a yield analysis of currently used and
emergency back-up local sources, indicating seasonal variations that would
expand/limit what can be drawn;
(b)
identification of any excess capacity that is now or might be sold to the
Authority or other users;
(c)
current water quality data, treatment required, and problems present or
foreseen;
(d) an assessment of
local source vulnerability to contamination, including results of any sanitary
surveys undertaken;
(e) copies of
any available studies prepared by or for the community addressing the impacts
of the 1986 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, and EPA regulations
promulgated thereunder, on the community's existing local sources, including
the quantity of available sources and any treatment necessitated by the new
regulations;
(f) a map that
delineates the watershed or recharge area of each ground and surface water
source, together with a statement of acreage owned by the community and
management practices of the community such as a local forest and vegetative
managment plan for support of water management and increased yield;
(g) identification of the basin location(s)
of source(s) and of wastewater disposal sites for the community;
(h) a description of any potential
improvements to the local water supply system to increase available supply and
a discussion of both the associated technical issues and the projected costs of
such improvements. Such improvements may include, but are not limited to,
treatment, storage, pumping or pipeline capacity;
(i) an identification of any local sources a
bandoned or lostto contaminati on since 1940 including location, historic
yield, and the reasons for abandonment;
(j) a description of any significant sources
that were abandoned prior to 1940; and
(k) an identification of any potentially
feasible new local sources with a potential yield of 0.25 mgd for groundwater
and 0.5 mgd for surface water sources.
(3) A local Water Management Plan when
required by the WRC, that has been approved by the WRC and adopted by the
community will be filed with the Authority, together with an identification of
steps, which are subject to Authority review and approval, whereby
implementation of its water conservation and demand management components will
be achieved. Whether or not a Water Management Plan is required by the WRC an
implementation schedule shall be provided that identifies date specific
milestones responsible parties and planned and committed funding sources, for
each of the following:
(a) ongoing leak
detection and repair, and water system rehabilitation including at a minimum:
1. survey of all parts of the distribution
system at least once every two years;
2. sonic leak survey with, at a minimum,
listening of all points of direct contact on the main, and with use of ground
microphones for long distances between points of direct contact, unless
unaccounted-for water use is less than 5%, in which event the
Authority may consider hydrant-only listening; and
3. quarterly leak survey reports summarizing
leak survey activity, with individual site reports for each suspected leak and
completed repair;
(b)
metering of all buildings and other regular uses, including public buildings,
and an on-going meter inspection and rehabilitation replacement
program;
(c) a conservation public
information and evaluation program, which includes distribution of Authority
provided materials to all water users and participation in or use of Authority
school programs and industrial conservation programs.
(d) retrofit of all public buildings with
water saving devices such as faucet aerators, low flow shower heads,
displacement devices for tank-type toilets and, where possible, low flow
toilets; and
(e) contingency plans
to reduce water use in case of drought or emergency as well as a five year
schedule for adopting a local drought restriction enforcement ordinance. Model
conservation standards are presented in the WRC's Water Conservation Standards
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. These standards can be used to direct
conservation efforts.
(4) If local water sources lying within the
community's boundary are used, the community shall file with the Authority
either a copy of the ordinance for protection of local water sources that the
community has enacted or a proposed schedule for the enactment of such an
ordinance. At a minimum, the ordinance shall:
(a) recite that its purpose is to protect
existing and identified feasible water supplies and sources; and
(b) prohibit uses which may contaminate
watershed lands and well protection zones either by limiting private uses of
the surrounding areas or by acquisition of the lands by the community;
identified uses that potentially threaten water supply sources include, but are
not limited to: underground storage tanks and pipelines, landfills, septic
systems, the use and storage or deicing and other chemicals, and hazardous
waste disposal sites.
If local water sources lying outside of the community boundary
are used, the community shall provide a description of all measures in place or
projected to be instituted within the five year period following the contract
termination date for the protection of those local sources. While the community
does not have control over the protection of those local water sources that are
outside of its boundary, the community shall attempt, through cooperative
steps, to have a protective ordinance enacted in the appropriate
community.
(5)
Either a detailed description of the local user charge and accounting system
that the community has adopted or a proposed schedule for the adoption of
revisions, if any, to such a system shall be filed with the Authority; the
system shall:
(a) incorporate a uniform rate
or an alternative structure which provides incentives for water conservation
and/or is designed to ensure the affordability of water service to low and/or
fixed income persons; and
(b)
prohibit rate structures that incorporate descending or declining block
rates.
(6) A proposed
schedule for the evaluation, development and use of potentially feasible new
local water supply sources identified in the Supply Analysis Report shall be
filed with the Authority which will reflect consideration of:
(a) the technical feasibility evaluation
process utilized by DEP for the approval of new sources;
(b) the economic feasibility for development
of those new sources, based on a development cost per million gallons no
greater than two and 1/2 times the prevailing rate as adopted for the
first fiscal year of the requested Water Supply Continutation Agreement's term.
The development cost will be deflated during the subsequent years of the Water
Supply Continuation Agreement's term. The index used to perform this adjustment
will be that stated in Engineering News Record; and
(c) compliance with all applicable state and
federal environmental regulations.
