Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	45.37
Liaison	Grace Afflerbach
Submission Date	Oct. 31, 2019
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Purchase College - State University of New York
OP-22: Water Use

Status

Score

Responsible Party

2.55 / 6.00

Angie Kim
Sustainability Coordinator
Facilities Management

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

High

Part 1

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

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water use	655,457,000 Gallons	818,738,000 Gallons

Potable water use:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use	655,457,000 Gallons	818,738,000 Gallons

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

	Start Date	End Date
Performance Year	July 1, 2017	June 30, 2018
Baseline Year	July 1, 2016	June 30, 2017

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:

Water baseline is from fiscal year 2016-2017, this was adopted because it was the most recent year without a focus on water sustainability and had comparable number of campus users to this recent year. This was also the fiscal year before a full-time sustainability coordinator was hired in 2018.

Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users":

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site	2,689	2,671
Number of employees resident on-site	24	26
Number of other individuals resident on-site and/or staffed hospital beds	14	22
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment	3,918	4,195
Full-time equivalent of employees (staff + faculty)	845	842
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education	0	0
Weighted campus users	4,264.50	4,474

Potable water use per weighted campus user:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per weighted campus user	153,700.79 Gallons	182,999.11 Gallons

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

16.01

Part 2

Gross floor area of building space:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Gross floor area	2,511,298 Gross square feet	2,438,268 Gross square feet

Potable water use per unit of floor area:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per unit of floor area	261.00 Gallons per square foot	335.79 Gallons per square foot

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

22.27

Part 3

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 3 of this credit? (reductions in total water use per acre/hectare of vegetated grounds):

Area of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Vegetated grounds	---	---

Total water use (potable + non-potable) per unit of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water use per unit of vegetated grounds	---	---

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

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Optional Fields

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:

Signage is posted in bathrooms, laundry rooms, residential areas and others promoting limited and smart water use.

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

Our irrigation system is set on a timer and controlled in Facilities to ensure there is not over-watering or flooding. Only lawned areas are irrigated, primarily during the dry summer months.

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):

There have been major renovations to the cooling towers that significantly decreased overall college water use. Retrofits are constantly being done in bathrooms to update plumbing fixtures to efficient technologies.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

https://www.purchase.edu/offices/capital-facilities-planning/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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