East Wenatchee Water District

This document outlines the East Wenatchee Water District's 2025 Water Use Efficiency Program, developed in compliance with Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 246-290-800. The plan focuses on reducing water demand and managing resources efficiently through public education, technical assistance, and system measures such as metering and leak detection. Key strategic goals include reducing distribution system leakage, maintaining or reducing per capita water use, and promoting public awareness of water conservation issues. The program aims to improve source management and decrease overall water consumption.

East Wenatchee Water District engaged FCS GROUP in 2020 to complete a comprehensive cost-of-service rate study. One of the District's goals for the study was to determine a fair and defensible allocation of costs to private fire lines, recognizing that it has not historically charged these customers for the ongoing availability of service despite having to size its infrastructure to meet their demands. This memorandum documents the process used to develop the fire line rates that the District adopted. The revenue requirement analysis determines the amount of revenue that the District's rates must generate to enable it to meet its various financial obligations. Citing recent concerns about rate affordability, the rate study included a cost -of-service analysis to determine a fair and defensible allocation of the District's annual costs to its customers. As part of this rate study, the District requested the development of rates for private fire lines.