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<br />Comprehensive Water Plan <br />City of Arden Hills, MN <br />WSB Project No. 3455-20 PAGE 7 <br />Table 2 lists the top 10 water users by volume, from largest to smallest, for the City of Arden <br />Hills. <br />Table 2 – Large Volume Users <br />Customer Category <br />Water Use <br />(gallons per <br />year) <br />Percent of <br />Total Water <br />Use <br />Bethel University Institutional 19,559,954 6.2% <br />Arden Manor Mobile Home Residential 19,282,614 6.1% <br />University of Northwestern Institutional 9,776,996 3.1% <br />Boston Scientific (Bldg. 5, 7, 9) Industrial 9,684,739 3.1% <br />Boston Scientific (Bldg. B & C) Industrial 9,657,338 3.0% <br />Johanna Shores Residential 9,071,148 2.9% <br />International Paper Industrial 6,774,002 2.1% <br />Land O' Lakes Industrial 5,720,401 1.8% <br />Boston Scientific (Bldg 10) Industrial 4,418,409 1.4% <br />Mounds View High School Institutional 4,124,607 1.3% <br />Existing Water Conservation Policies <br />Although Minnesotans benefit from the state’s abundant water supplies, those supplies are finite <br />and potential threats exist that could impact the quality of our drinking water. Factors that can <br />potentially limit water supply include population increases, economic trends, uneven statewide <br />availability of groundwater, climate change, and degraded water quality. There are many <br />benefits to enacting water conservation policies that the City has already implemented and will <br />continue to pursue. <br />The average total water used per year in the City of Arden Hills from 2010 to 2015 was 336 <br />million gallons, with an average of 15.7 percent of that usage being unmetered or unaccounted. <br />The average residential per capita demand has been decreasing steadily since 2012. From <br />2010 to 2015 the average residential per capita use was 46 gallons per day, which is well below <br />the DNR’s recommended residential demand target of 75 gallons per capita per day. As <br />previously discussed, the decrease in residential per capita demand may be attributed to high <br />efficiency appliances, decreased irrigation, general attitudes toward conservation, rainfall and <br />climate. <br /> <br />Dr <br />a <br />f <br />t <br /> <br />11 <br />/ <br />2 <br />0 <br />/ <br />2 <br />0 <br />1 <br />7