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A1.0 System Capacity Assessment

The System Capacity Assessment is your starting point for understanding the overall capacity of your system. This comprehensive worksheets starts with over 240 detailed questions about the technical, managerial, and financial capacity of your system. Your answers are given weighted scores which are used to calculate a comprehensive system status. Your system status will then help guide you in making decisions regarding fee structures, infrastructure upgrades, and other activities which affect your water system.

 
Partial Screen Shot of A1.0 System Capacity Assessment
 

The Technical Capacity Assessment section asks questions in fifteen specific areas as follows:

  1. Water Supply and Exisiting Demand Data
  2. Water user Demand Data
  3. Purchased Water
  4. Competing Uses of Water
  5. Alternative Water Sources
  6. Well & Spring Water Sources
  7. Surface Treatment Path
  8. Surface Water Systems
  9. Ground Water Protection
  10. Disinfection Treatment Path
  11. Disinfection
  12. Pumping and Boosting Infrastructure
  13. Storage Infrastructure
  14. Distribution System Infrastructure
  15. Water Quality and Cross Connection Programs

You can view a complete screen shot of the Technical Capacity Assessment section by downloading a pdf file here.

The Managerial Capacity Assessment section asks questions in six specific areas as follows:

  1. Operations
  2. Administration
  3. Rules, Policies, and Standards
  4. Regulatory Compliance Programs
  5. Emergencies and System Security
  6. Safety

You can view a complete screen shot of the Managerial Capacity Assessment section by downloading a pdf file here.

The Financial Capacity Assessment section asks questions in three specific areas as follows:

  1. Financial Planning
  2. Revenue Development
  3. Financial Management and Controls

You can view a complete screen shot of the Financial Capacity Assessment section by downloading a pdf file here.

The A1.0 System Capacity Assessment is a way for you to provide an objective assessment of your system. You can return to this page at any time and update your answers to determine the overall affect of actual or proposed changes. A1.2 is a list of the questions which make up A1.0. You can print out A1.2 to assist you in gathering the information you need to answer the questions in A1.0, the System Capacity Assessment.