Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.14
Liaison Scott Doyle
Submission Date Dec. 7, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Ithaca College
OP-22: Water Use

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 5.00 Greg Lischke
Director EM&S
OEMS
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Level of ”Physical Risk QUANTITY” for the institution’s main campus as indicated by the World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas:
Medium to High

Total water use (potable and non-potable combined):
Performance Year Baseline Year
Total water use --- 511,030.35 Cubic meters

Potable water use:
Performance Year Baseline Year
Potable water use 614,323.21 Cubic meters 511,030.35 Cubic meters

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year June 1, 2015 May 31, 2016
Baseline Year Jan. 1, 2005 Dec. 31, 2005

A brief description of when and why the water use baseline was adopted:
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Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users":
Performance Year Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site 4,368 4,173
Number of employees resident on-site 10 8
Number of other individuals resident on-site and/or staffed hospital beds 0 0
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment 6,796 6,973
Full-time equivalent of employees (staff + faculty) 1,437 1,475
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education 5.40 0
Weighted campus users 7,265.20 7,381.25

Potable water use per weighted campus user:
Performance Year Baseline Year
Potable water use per weighted campus user 84.56 Cubic meters 69.23 Cubic meters

Percentage reduction in potable water use per weighted campus user from baseline:
0

Gross floor area of building space:
Performance Year Baseline Year
Gross floor area 248,700.59 Gross square meters 213,676.90 Gross square meters

Potable water use per unit of floor area:
Performance Year Baseline Year
Potable water use per unit of floor area 2.47 Cubic meters per square meter 2.39 Cubic meters per square meter

Percentage reduction in potable water use per unit of floor area from baseline:
0

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 3 of this credit? (reductions in total water use per acre/hectare of vegetated grounds):
No

Area of vegetated grounds:
Performance Year Baseline Year
Vegetated grounds --- 0.40 Hectares

Total water use (potable + non-potable) per unit of vegetated grounds:
Performance Year Baseline Year
Total water use per unit of vegetated grounds --- 1,262,784.60 Cubic meters per hectare

Percentage reduction in total water use per unit of vegetated grounds from baseline:
0

A brief description of the institution's water-related behavior change initiatives, e.g. initiatives to shift individual attitudes and practices such as signage and competitions:
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A brief description of the institution's water recovery and reuse initiatives:
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A brief description of the institution's initiatives to replace plumbing fixtures, fittings, appliances, equipment, and systems with water-efficient alternatives (e.g. building retrofits):
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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
We do not have figures for 2005 baseline water/sewer. The earliest figures available were from 2008: 138,065,618 gallons. The campus has grown 2% in population since 2005, but we estimate that aggressive water-saving measures being implemented since 2005 would have reduced the amount of water consumed substantially. So we used the figure of 135,000,000 for baseline reporting purposes.

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