Title/Name/Summary
CMAP LTA Water Use Conservation Strategic Plan & Ordinance - Informational
History
QUICKFACTS
Project
Water Use Conservation Strategic Plan and Ordinance - 2012-0035
Petitioner
Village of Orland Park
Purpose
The purpose of this item is to inform the Village Board of Trustees about the status of the Water Conservation Strategy using a draft project breakdown summarizing all the components of the strategy prepared by CMAP through the Local Technical Assistance program in 2012.
The intent of the project breakdown is to consider and implement each component of the CMAP strategy report separately rather than adopt the report wholesale. In this way, the Village Board will see and decide each component systematically and comprehensively.
Requested Actions: This is an informational report. No actions are requested.
Attachments: Water Conservation Strategy Project Breakdown
BACKGROUND
In 2011, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) awarded the Village a Local Technical Assistance (LTA) grant to develop a new water conservation strategy and ordinance. That strategy was developed through public and stakeholder meetings through 2011 and 2012. The intent of the project was to develop a new Village-wide water use conservation strategy and ordinance that is in line with the Northeastern Illinois Regional Water Supply/ Demand Plan (a.k.a. Water 2050 Plan) and the Model Water Use Conservation Ordinance, both coordinated by CMAP steering committees.
A completed strategy report by CMAP was presented to the Village Board in June 2012 with a set of recommendations to undertake water conservation measures and practices. At that time, the Board requested that the Village work with neighboring municipalities to develop a combined regional approach toward water conservation.
Throughout 2012 and into the first quarter of 2013, the Village worked with high level representatives from Tinley Park, Mokena, New Lenox and Oak Forest to develop a mutually agreed upon water conservation resolution for the southwest region as a cluster of customer communities to the Oak Lawn water distribution system. The resolution acts as a common starting point for each of the municipalities to enact water conservation strategies that best fit their communities.
The resolution was presented to the Orland Park Village Board and adopted on May 6, 2013.
DRAFT PROJECT BREAKDOWN OVERVIEW
Following passage of the water conservation resolution, the next step is to prepare an implementation schedule for the recommendations of the CMAP report. Because the CMAP report contains a number of policy items, a draft project breakdown is provided that summarizes all of the recommendations in the report. The report is broken into five (5) major components, each with sub-components that are depicted in a breakdown tree and explained in the ensuing tables. At the end of the project breakdown is a simplified network diagram showing which components will be implemented first.
Initially, the diagram depicted a three year implementation period beginning with Indoor Ordinances in 2013, followed by Program implementation in 2014, addressing the highest water users in 2015 and instituting Outdoor Ordinances last in 2016. Throughout the three year implementation period, recommended education and outreach was proposed as an ongoing effort to ease the impacts of implementation and promote various programs and activities.
Finally, a project breakdown schedule was provided to roughly show the amount of time each component/ task will take to complete (blue bars) and the targeted implementation date (red). The project breakdown schedule is tentative and will likely be subject to change but it is a useful starting point to understand the amount of time it will take to comprehensively enact recommended water conservation measures and policies.
COMMITTEE FEEDBACK
At the July 1, 2013 Parks and Recreation, Technology, Communications and Community Engagement, and Finance Committee(s) meeting the Trustees provided feedback and suggested that the Village's efforts first begin with the CMAP recommended Education and Outreach campaign, then the Program implementation, followed by addressing highest water users concurrently, and then consider Indoor Ordinances with the Outdoor Ordinances last. It was explained at the Committee meeting that the original schedule included Indoor Ordinances first in anticipation to state changes to the Illinois Plumbing Code. However, the Trustees determined that it was more appropriate for the Village to lead by example and address its own highest water using facilities while conducting the education and outreach campaign and implementing Programs for the community before requiring material and behavioral changes via the ordinances for everyone else.
The new order is reflected in the attached project breakdown and breakdown tree. The structure of the breakdown tree is adjusted so that the Education and Outreach begins in 2013, then Programs and Highest Water Users in 2014 and the Indoor Ordinance in 2015 and Outdoor Ordinance in 2016. The project breakdown schedule at the end of the informational packet is also updated accordingly.
A copy of the draft Water Conservation Strategy Project Breakdown is attached as an informational item. A copy of the strategy report by CMAP is also attached for reference.
INFORMATIONAL ITEM
This is an informational item that was presented first to the Parks and Recreation, Technology, Communications and Community Engagement, and Finance Committee(s). It is now presented to the Development Services and Planning, Public Works and Engineering, and Public Safety Committee(s) as an informational item prior to beginning any work toward implementing CMAP’s recommendations.
Following this update to the members of the Village Board and any input, staff will begin implementing the recommendations of the CMAP report in the third quarter of 2013.
Recommended Action/Motion
For Discussion Only