I was not cut out for geometry or physics. All the rules and formulas to try to memorize or burn into my brain with repetition. In reading the Water Master Plan EIR, I once again had a brain that refused to cooperate when it came to making the conversions from annual acre feet to units, to gallons, and back. So, I finally sat down and worked out an excel spreadsheet I could plug numbers into to more easily compare all the information from the EIR. If you have excel and want to try it out, I’ve included a link to it here and in the AboutCambria.com Library. I figure many of you will be working on your thoughtful and clear responses to the Water Master Plan EIR (due monday). Just in time to help confuse clarify some of those numbers is the Water Conversions Calculator for Cambrians, no degree required.
If you don’t have Microsoft Office and Excel, not to panic. I will be working on providing a version of the conversions tables that you can use even if you don’t have Excel.
If you are providing comments on the Master Plan EIR or Fiscalini Ranch EIR , I invite you to contribute then to About Cambria as a post. By sharing information and opinions and planning, we make it easier for everyone to speak and to be heard. Get involved. Try out the Water Calculator
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Thanks Amanda for your handy calculator. Some interesting facts can be seen in your chart.
1. Our present customer annual “average use” at .16 a/f is about 1/6th. of California wide domestic usage (the estimate being 1 a/f per family of 4 persons). We all conserve very well!
2. The Kennedy Jenks proposal (9 units per month) still amounts to only 25% of the state average.
Help keep the information flowing…Peter
Thanks for joining the AboutCambria.com conversations, Peter.
1. The CCSD held a Utility Rate Workshop in Sept. 2002. Charts they distributed showed that in Cambria 2/3 of the water used flows through 1/3 of the meters. Put another way, when you and I each use half a gallon of water, a third person uses two gallons or twice as much as the two of us do.
When 1/3 of the water customers use 2/3 of the town’s water, I don’t think “We all conserve very well!” is true.
2. What do you mean by “The Kennedy Jenks proposal”?
3. As you know, water use averages in California have to do with agricultural use, residential use, climates, seasons of the year, etc. I’d be grateful to know the source of the figures you are using and what categories fit us Cambrians.
Again, welcome to the discussions!
Eliz please identify what class of user and type/size of meter uses 2/3 of the district’s water.
For Peter if I follow the dots do you mean to say”cambrians you have done all the conservation possible so to allow continued building as we have now (hotels, commercial complexes, sports complexes) in spite of a moratorium we will need to build a desal facility (that you have voted yes on for 15 years) and then after we get that industrial project on a state public beach we can then toss out conservation and increase our daily usage by 50%.”
I hope you move into the 21st century and read all of the many comments on your WMP EIR. Perhaps you will learn something and bring your thinking and methodologies for solving water problems current with present technology