volume 1 - Halifax Regional Municipality

Halifax Water Integrated Resource Plan
Appendices
4.1.3 Demand-Side Options
TOR Requirement
1. IRP process will investigate demand-side
management options to reduce finish water
requirements and wastewater flows.
2. IRP process will include demand-side assessments of
cost, supply and capacity needs, and usage impacts.
IRP Reference
Section
6.3
Section
6.3
A full business case analysis of demand reduction was not feasible for this IRP due to
considerable limitations in available data and time needed to assess and analyse results. The
approach that was taken examined the benefit value gained from demand reduction for the
wastewater system and compared these values with literature-based information on flow
reduction costs. The focus of the analysis was a case study of the combined benefits of water
efficiency and I/I reduction on the expansion requirements identified under the RWWFP for the
Dartmouth facility.
See above.
The demand-side assessment may include but not be limited to the following technologies and methods:
• Customer leak reduction
• Service meter calibration
• Non-revenue water
• Water conservation (outdoor water use reductions,
xeriscaping, plumbing code modifications, water audits,
etc.)
• Rate incentives
• I/I reduction (illegal connections, cross-connections,
storage, retention, water movement optimization, etc.)
• Water recycling
• Rate incentives
• Lateral repairs
• Source control
• Construction standards
• Grading requirements
• Comprehensive controlled drainage management
• Source control
• Sediment / erosion management
• Stormwater rate structure
• Construction standards
Revision: 2012-10-29 Integrated Resource Plan –Appendices G-15
October 31 2012 Page 227 of 272