Queen Creek and Salt River Project are partnering on a water efficiency assessment program that will look at water use in the common areas of four homeowners associations.
The Queen Creek Town council approved the partnership at its Wednesday meeting as part of its consent agenda, which is voted on by one motion and vote.
The partnership supports the town’s Waterfluence Program, a large landscape water efficiency software designed to help optimize irrigation and water use. Among the tools the software offers are notifications of leaks and high use.
“Through this effort, the town will more effectively identify and address landscape and irrigation inefficiencies in select homeowner association common areas. HOAs that struggle to meet Waterfluence’s budgeted landscape water use goals and show high potential for water savings will be invited to participate,” according to a staff report.
The participating HOAs will receive a landscape and irrigation system assessment with SRP paying the $25,000 cost. The assessments will identify water inefficiencies in HOA common areas.
After the assessment, the HOAs will be eligible for up to $20,000 each to correct any identified issues. The improvements could include smart controllers, rain and flow sensors, high-efficiency emitters and spray nozzles, and non-functional turf removal, the report stated.
The town will fund the four HOA water improvement projects at a total cost of $80,000. SRP will reimburse half that amount to the town.
“The town’s $40,000 matching funds have already been allocated in the existing water conservation budget. Overall, both parties will invest a total of approximately $105,000 under this partnership agreement to complete conservation projects and improvements,” the report continued.
SRP will be working with the town to provide five years of water-use data analyzing the effectiveness of the improvements and overall water savings.
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Meet Janet Janet Perez joined Independent Newsmedia as editor of the Queen Creek Independent and Florence Independent in 2020. She started her career in 1989 with the Gannett-owned El Paso Times. In 1992, she moved to Tempe and has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio and television. She left Arizona for three years to work at New Mexico State University and Baylor University before returning to work at Arizona State University. Missing the business, she went back to journalism in 2017.
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