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Water Smart is a great idea to participate in.
It allows you to see water usage starting 1 day back till 10 days blocks and backwards.
It allows you to focus on improving your large water use areas like showers, baths, and toilets.
It allows you to get text/email notifications of large leaks 24 hours after the fact and usage over a user set threshold - but better than nothing!
Under "$ Billing" (inside the bottom banner menu)
- "Evaluate Bill"
- scroll down to the very bottom
shows a nice graph of how much you have used to-date in the billing period and the end point trajectory of total usage for the billing period
City of Elmhurst official landing page for WaterSmart - click here
To sign up for WaterSmart go to cityofelmhurst.watersmart.org
Once you get your account setup do not forget to set your profile up of how many typically live in the house so you can compare yourself to your neighbors like you see on ComEd's website for electricity. You can edit your profile by locating its very obscure access in the bottom light blue banner under "Household Profile"
One Leaky Toilet
Profiles for a home with no yard watering, high efficiency water devices, clothes, dishes, toilets (HH gls/day):
People in House Average Efficient
1 90 62
2 126 93
3 127 107
4 163 127
LMO-2 199
5 214 178
LMO 240
Peak2020 328 (165% over LMO-2 allocation)
Peak2021 338 (170% over LMO-2 allocation)
LMO-2: Lake Michigan allocation max use of 3,947,000 gallons per day - 74% Residential use over ~14,662 meters equates to 199 gallons per day per household max average over 1 a year period.
LMO: the old allocation standard that ended in 2021 was 4.754 for Elmhurst - same math comes to 240 gallons per day
Peak2020: The highest single day of Elmhurst water use for 2020 - 8/28 using 6,500,040 - equates to 328 gallons per day
Peak2021: The highest single day of Elmhurst water use for 2021 - 7/23 using 6,696,198 - equates to 338 gallons per day
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