Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	50.52
Liaison	Alicia Hodenfield
Submission Date	Feb. 18, 2021

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Sonoma State University
OP-21: Water Use

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Score

Responsible Party

0.38 / 4.00

Shawn Potts
Facilities Operations Manager
Operations and Engineering

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

Low to Medium

Part 1. Reduction in potable water use per person

Total water withdrawal (potable and non-potable combined):

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water withdrawal	129,808,698 Gallons	137,259,648 Gallons

Potable water use:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use	66,972,016.20 Gallons	65,700,140.10 Gallons

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):

	Start Date	End Date
Performance Period	July 1, 2018	June 30, 2019
Baseline Period	July 1, 2017	June 30, 2018

If end date of the baseline year/period is 2004 or earlier, provide:

A brief description of when and why the water use baseline was adopted:

The baseline year of July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, was adopted as there was no sufficient data available during the previous years.

Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users":

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site	3,174	3,133
Number of employees resident on-site	13	12
Number of other individuals resident on-site	11	4
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment	8,671	8,212
Full-time equivalent of employees	1,145.70	1,083.70
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education	0	0
Weighted campus users	8,170.28	7,762.03

Potable water use per weighted campus user:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per weighted campus user	8,197.03 Gallons	8,464.30 Gallons

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

3.16

Part 2. Reduction in potable water use per unit of floor area

Gross floor area of building space:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Gross floor area	2,433,813 Gross square feet	2,433,813 Gross square feet

Potable water use per unit of floor area:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per unit of floor area	27.52 Gallons per square foot	26.99 Gallons per square foot

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

Part 3. Reduction in total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds

Area of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Vegetated grounds	30 Acres	30 Acres

Total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds	4,326,956.60 Gallons per acre	4,575,321.60 Gallons per acre

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

5.43

Optional Fields

A brief description of the institution's water-related behavior change initiatives:

Some of the ways the University has reduced the use of potable over many years is as follows:
* Low flow showers, faucets, and toilets throughout the housing.
* Low flow and dual plumbed urinals and toilets in new construction (do not use potable water)
* Replacing lawn with more drought tolerant landscape, including the drought-tolerant lawn.
* Irrigating virtually all landscape with reclaimed water and not potable water
* Even with using reclaimed we mulch and take numerous additional steps to minimize irrigation.
* Pool covers save the campus 250,000 gallons of potable water per year.

A brief description of the institution's water recovery and reuse initiatives:

The City of Santa Rosa provides recycled water to the University for use in the irrigation and fire suppression systems. Recycled Water undergoes three levels of treatment that includes filtering and UV disinfection in the last step.

A brief description of the institution's initiatives to replace plumbing fixtures, fittings, appliances, equipment, and systems with water-efficient alternatives:

All the buildings are equipped with Low-flow faucets with an aerator installed in them to mix water with a steady flow of air, maintaining water pressure but cutting clean water consumption by as much as 40%, from 4 gallons per minute to 2.5.

Website URL where information about the institution’s water conservation and efficiency efforts is available:

https://web.sonoma.edu/ehs/water/conservation.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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