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User demand information submitted in the plan shows that 71% of the demand is residential, -13% comm rcial, 4% instimflonal and 0% industrial. The city also has 12% of its pumped water in an "unaccounted" category that includes 3.3 million gallons of unmetered public use (filter backwash for 10 filters, hydrant flushing). This percentage exceeds the recommended maximum of 10%, and suggests tha't a water audit program could help the city "recover" some of this lost water, especially from public uses that could be metered. The city notes its difficulty in meeting the 10% level, and references problems with older pipes and unauthorized or unmetered use of hydrants. The city does have long-range programs for waterm-ain replacement.when roads are replaced, and for meter replacement at both the residential and commercial levels. The only large volume customer, comprising about 7% of 1994 demand, is Equinox Apartment Complex (commercial account). The existing facilities discussion in the plan was supplemented by information sent in later by the city. The water system is currently fed by three Prairie,du Chien-Jordan Aquifer wells rated at a capacity of 1200 gallons per minute (gpm)each, for a total of 3600 gpm(equivalent to 5.18 mgd). Please note that the 1200 gpm rate differs from the rates listed in the Minnesota Department of Health forms accompanying the plan (pages 5 and 6). The plan reviewer will assume, unless otherwise notified, that the rates reported as part of the plan are the correct ones. The firm capacity, or capacity available if the largest pump is out of service, would be 3.46 mgd, or approximately twice the maximum daily demand. The city has 2.25 million gallons of storage available in two storage facilities. The f=capacity and storage are four times and over two times the average daily demand, respectively. No new pumping or storage facilities are planned by the city. The TCAAP situation described earlier resulted in the addition of activated carbon filtration to the city's water treatment system. The city's permanent carbon filtration plant was put on-line in 1990 with money made available from Superfund. This,addition resulted in double filtering, since the water is also filtered for iron removal. The total treatment capacity of 5 mgd matches the capacity of all three wells pumping at maximum levels, and.is five times the average daily demand. An analysis of winter demand versus summer demand shows that summer use exceeds winter by about 0.35 mgd. Record peak usage in the city was 2.169 mgd in June of 1988 during the last major drought. This amount of summer demand over winter demand is relatively low and reflects the mature nature of the landscape and the lack of need for irrigation to establish new landscape. It does, however, suggest one-area where the city could focus its conservation efforts. St. Anthony Village recently emerged as number 21 on the Minnesota Department of Health(MDH)list of priorities for wellhead protection plans. The city indicates that it is working with the Hennepin Conservation District on a wellhead protection plan in advance of any state requirement to do so. Details on the wellhead effort were not included in the plan because of the preliminary nature of the effort. Part TT- Fmergrnry Planning(OberMEM The emergency portion of the plan is difficult to ascertain from the rest of the plan at first glance. IlLis could be critical in an emergency when time is of the essence. It is suggested that the final plan adopted by the city assemble all of the emergency information in a single section, and tab that section or place it in an appendix for rapid location. The emergency plan begins with a description of the interconnection that St. Anthony has with the St. Paul Water Utility via Roseville. Because the St. Paul system is predominantly a surface water source, this connection supplies St. Andiony with an alternate source of water to the Prairie du Chien-Jordan Aquifer that supplies its wells. This back-up availability is a very good emergency component to the system in the event of aquifer contarnination. 1he Roseville connection could serve about one-half of the needs of St. Anthony in an emergency, and was in fact used in 1986. In order to use the Roseville connection, the city must first