1. San Angelo Water Utilities

2. Topics
 Customer Profile
 Water Demands
 Water Supplies
 Water Supply Status
 New Water Supplies
 Drought Management Policy
 Critical Supply Projection

3. Customer Profile
 Population: 93,200
 Water Connections: 32,000
 Water demand by customer category:
 Residential 62%
 Commercial 20%
 System Operation 14%
 Industrial 4%
 Notable entities:
 Goodfellow Air Force Base
 Angelo State University
 Shannon Medical Center
 Community Medical Center

4. Water Demands
 Annual Daily Average: 14 mgd
 Summer Peak: 26 mgd
 Winter Daily Average: 10 mgd
 Average Annual Usage: 16,000 acre-feet

5. Water Supplies
 All current water supplies are surface water
 Reservoirs and Lakes
 Highly impacted by drought
 Primary Sources:
 O.H. Ivie Reservoir
 Twin Buttes Reservoir
 Lake Nasworthy
 O.C. Fisher Reservoir
 Lake Spence

6. O.H. Ivie Reservoir
Owned and operated by the Colorado River Municipal
Water District
Purpose: Water Supply
Supplies: Odessa, Big Spring, Snyder, Midland, Abilene,
San Angelo, Ballinger and Millersview-Doole
Storage Capacity: 554,339 acre-feet
Current Storage: 98,400 acre-feet
2011 Change in Storage: -81,820 acre-feet

7. Twin Buttes Reservoir
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Managed under contract by the City of San Angelo
Purpose: Water Supply, Irrigation and Flood Control
Supplies: City of San Angelo and Tom Green County
Water Control Improvement District #1
Storage Capacity: 186,244 acre-feet
Current Storage: 13,100 acre-feet
2011 Change in Storage: -22,344 acre-feet

8. Lake Nasworthy
Owned and operated by the City of San Angelo
Purpose: Water Supply
Supplies: City of San Angelo
Storage Capacity: 12,500 acre-feet
Current Storage: 8,200 acre-feet
2011 Change in Storage: -120 acre-feet

9. O. C. Fisher
COE - Upper Colorado River Authority
Purpose: Water Supply and Flood Control
Supplies: City of San Angelo and UCRA
Storage Capacity: 119,000 acre-feet
Current Storage: 1,000 acre-feet
2011 Change in Storage: -771 acre-feet

10. Lake Spence
Colorado River Municipal Water District
Purpose: Water Supply
Supplies: Odessa, Big Spring, Snyder, Midland,
San Angelo
Storage Capacity: 488,000 acre-feet
Current Storage: 2,300 acre-feet
2011 Change in Storage: -13,190 acre-feet

11. Thousands of Acre-Feet
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120
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180
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1044
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Historic Lake Levels
2006
2008
2010
2012
O.C. Fisher
Twin Buttes
Lake Nasworthy

14. New Water Supplies
 Hickory Groundwater Supply
 35,000 acres of groundwater rights acquired in 1972
 62 miles southeast of San Angelo in McCullough County
near Brady, Texas
 Arbitrated water allocations:
Development Phase Year Allocation
I 2013 6 mgd
II 2026 9 mgd
III 2036 10.7 mgd

15. New Water Supplies (Cont.)
 Hickory Groundwater Supply (Continued)
 Project Cost: $120,000,000
 Wellfield and transmission piping under contract with
projected completion of June 2013.
 Pump Station and Well Development bidding and projected
completion of June 2013
 Treatment Plant for Radionuclides projected for completion
in early 2014.

16. Drought Management Policy
 Multi-stage with trigger points based on supplies
 Principles:
 Public Education
 Progressive restrictions on outside watering until
prohibited in final stage
 Progressive surcharges for ‘excess’ use of water
 Enforcement Provisions

17. Drought Management Policy
(Cont.)
 Implementation Stages are based on available supply
from all sources:
 Water Conservation: > 2 years supply
 Drought Level 1: < 2 years supply
 Drought Level 2: 18 months or less
 Drought Level 3: 12 months or less

18. Critical Supply Projection
 Worst case scenario: No Runoff
 Annual demand: 16,000 acre-feet
 Critical Supply Timeline: 19 months

19. Questions