COMPLETE: 41 Milestones

WR1: Continue investment in public awareness campaigns to increase knowledge of the value of water and importance of conservation.

• Continue City Leadership and Commitment Grant Program to City of Dallas departments for improvements promoting Water Conservation efforts.

• Continue to offer public education, including Environmental Education Initiative, and outreach opportunities to promote water conservation in an effort to resourcefully manage the City’s GPCD

• Continue to evaluate and improve Water Conservation social media strategies

• Evaluate and participate in local, regional, national water conservation associations for public awareness activities

• Continue the regional "Water is Awesome" public awareness campaign with Tarrant Regional Water District

• Continue to evaluate and assess City of Dallas Water Conservation Program performance to ascertain program viability.

• Continue the ‘Save Water. Nothing Can Replace It.’ local public awareness campaign, and maintain SaveDallasWater.com website, promoting local conservation programs and educational opportunities for DWU customers

• Plan and hold the North Texas Regional Water Conservation Symposium, in partnership with local agencies.

• ​Continue activities and efforts related to the "Defend Your Drains" public awareness campaign

• ​Continue water conservation outreach efforts to support wholesale customer cities

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WR2: Continue investment in leak detection and expand programs to reduce overall water loss through the conveyance systems.

• Continue to offer public-facing rebate and incentive-based programs to promote water conservation in an effort to resourcefully manage the City’s annual GPCD

• Continue existing leak detection programs in DWU's distribution system

• Continue requesting and tracking TWDB Annual Water Conservation Reports for wholesale customer cities, which include 5- and 10-year water conservation targets

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WR4: Encourage businesses and residents to plant drought-tolerant and native vegetation or xeriscape to reduce irrigation water use.

• Enforce City of Dallas Lawn Watering Schedule

• Continue ongoing education and outreach programs, such as Water-Wise Landscape Tour, to promote best management practices that recognize landscape design that reduces water consumption

• Continue to offer free automatic irrigation system evaluations and promote best management practices on outdoor watering

• Develop additional resources to promote reducing outdoor water use, as feasible

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WR5: Continue to monitor and protect water quality and implement improvement projects in the watershed.

• Continue Watershed Protection Program

• Participate in the Upper Trinity River Basin Water Quality Compact

• Participate with USGS and other local entities in stream flow and water quality sampling

• Participate in Zebra Mussel study and monitoring with USGS

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WR6: Continue to protect and monitor water quality by tracking emerging contaminants that may impact public health.

• With Parks and Recreation, Public Works, and Development Services develop a plan to educate and support customers in regulatory-driven programs for lead and copper monitoring within schools, childcare centers, and public spaces

• Participate with USGS and other entities in Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) study in the DFW area

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WR7: Use FEMA Community Rating System to educate and protect communities from flooding.

• Use rating system to educate flood-prone communities

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WR8: Complete the implementation of major planned and ongoing drainage infrastructure projects to improve community resilience to flooding.

• Continue acquisition of parcels for the Dallas Floodway Extension

• Continue to support the USACE design process for Dallas Floodway Extension (DFE)

• Continue to support design builds efforts of Dallas Floodway (DF)

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WR9: Initiate a comprehensive Storm Drainage System assessment and planning process.

• Implement critical projects to be funded through long-term CIP

• Initiate/Continue comprehensive storm drainage assessment activities that will identify resources and organizational needs, assess infrastructure condition, identify critical projects, and evaluate stormwater utility funding needs

• Evaluate funding mechanisms to implement critical projects

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WR11: Continue monitoring, evaluating, and updating the Drought Contingency Plan.

• Continue to monitor and evaluate effectiveness of the Drought Contingency Plan

• Update Drought Contingency Plan as necessary

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WR12: Continue contingency planning to protect and maintain service of key water infrastructure facilities from extreme weather events.

• Evaluate potential to install secondary power sources for critical infrastructure

• Evaluate recommended risk management strategies developed as part of a completed Risk and Resilience Assessment for DWU’s critical water facilities to plan and prioritize future mitigation measures

• Update Continuity of Operations Plan DWU Annex as necessary

• Evaluate potential ways to go off-grid for wastewater

• Initiate Department Wide Security Master Plan Update (Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater)

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WR13: Evaluate new technologies to lower nutrient releases into the Trinity Watershed from wastewater treatment plants and incorporate as appropriate.

• Evaluate improvements to existing process utilizing new technology to improve water quality

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WR14: Evaluate new or improved operational strategies and technologies to optimize the use of chemicals and reduce energy usage at water and wastewater treatment facilities.

• Evaluate improvements to existing process and procedures to optimize water and wastewater treatment

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WR15: Continue investment in sewer collection system to reduce inflow/infiltration (I/I) to improve water quality and reduce energy usage.

• Continue aggressive wastewater internal inspection, cleaning, and repair activities

• Implement activities in the SSO initiative and report to TCEQ annually