Please find attached a write-up for the iCAP. As I just returned from a long trip, and punched this out in a hurry to meet tomorrows deadline, it may need to be extensively edited and modified. But these suggestions are basically what I have to offer.

Should we espouse a larger vision – net zero? Without a timeline as an aspirational  goal

N. Rajagopalan PhD

Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) Water Audit Webinar – Oct. 21 at 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. (web only)

“Water Use and Conservation on Illinois College Campuses: The Ripple Effect”

The Illinois Green Economy Network (IGEN) and the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) are partnering to train college faculty and staff to conduct water audits on their campuses, increasing knowledge about water on college campuses, and furthering ISTC’s goal of reducing water consumption in Illinois by One Billion Gallons. To do so, IGEN and ISTC will implement a three-phase program. In the first phase of the program, IGEN will cohost a webinar with ISTC to educate interested colleges on the basics of water audits. The webinar will cover the following information:

• Details of what a comprehensive water audit encompasses: the built environment, the campus landscaping, and the local topography/watershed;
• Where to find specific information on water use on a college campus: what bills, what departments have information, what is metered, etc.;
• Potential benefits of water audits: how to save money, water, and energy, and the environmental impacts; and
• Overview of the next phases of the program and how to participate.

Speakers will be: Megan Chery, Manager of Alliance for Water Efficiency; Aaron Dunbaugh, Director of Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago; and Michelle Maddaus, Founder and Civil Engineer with Maddaus Waste Management.

Please register to attend the webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/154690976. For additional information visit http://www.igencc.org/node/1115.

In the second phase of the program, IGEN and ISTC will arrange regional training sessions at several Illinois community colleges to train stakeholders on how to conduct a comprehensive water audit on campus. In the third phase of the program, colleges will conduct water audits on their campuses and make recommendations that will reduce water consumption and apply for grants to implement the projects.

ISTC is a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Please note the two attached files.

One is a recent storm water study for the Mathews Avenue drainage basin.

The other is the water use, by building type, per square foot.  We discussed this type of analysis last week, and the F&S Utility Financial Service group was able to provide the data.

Keith

From: Rajagopalan, Nandakishore
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:36 PM
To: Amy Liu
Cc: swat-water@dib.illinois.edu
Subject: RE: Update

I think that’s a great idea. Do contact the wolverines

From: Amy Liu
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:13 PM
To: Thayer, Danielle J
Cc: swat-water@dib.illinois.edu; Nishant Makhijani
Subject: Re: Update

Hi all,

I will probably be unable to attend tomorrow's meeting due to a time conflict with SSC. 

Along the lines of something I conveyed before, there are minor differences between the inputs we've entered for UIUC water use and the data that is shared in "iCAP Water Emissions". These might need to be resolved in order to propose the most useful benchmarks. And for our special interest University of Michigan, I am considering whether I should contact someone from their water institute to gather more information about their use statistics and strategies. I assume that such information will be be more related to our later goals. Let me know what you think.

Best regards,

Amy Liu

Hi Kishore,

The spreadsheet is very helpful, many thanks. 

I quickly combed through the document and didn't find any errors in calculation. However, there seem to be minor differences between inputs for UIUC water use when compared to the "iCAP Water Emissions" spreadsheet Ben recently shared with us e.g 1023 mgpy vs. 1063 mgpy.  

I might look at University of Michigan more closely later today since it's of special interest to us.

Amy Liu

Please note the attached PDF file which is a map of the campus Raw Water System

Keith Erickson

Dear Water and Stormwater SWATeam,

The iCAP Working Group met today, and we very much look forward to your updated report on campus progress towards the 2010 iCAP targets.

In the hopes that it will provide some assistance as you formulate your recommendations for the revised iCAP, to be presented at the iCAP Forum on October 22nd, we wanted to provide you with some additional files:

1) A "template" for the iCAP sections that we ask that you use. This was written using Transportation as an example, but it should be easily adaptable.

2) A "resources" document that summarizes the 2010 iCAP strategies, excerpts from a document that was put together back in FY13 summarizing progress at that time, a set of links to relevant pages on the iCAP Portal, and a list of the questions in the STARS report that are relevant to your team.  The STARS report is how our campus gets "graded" on our sustainability performance, so these questions may inspire ideas for things the campus should be doing.

3) A table of water usage.  You can fill this in with your proposed goals, and include it in the template.

4) A summary of all of our emissions in different categories, for context.

5) The Clean Air Cool Planet calculator itself, updated for FY2014, in case you wish to dive into how the calculations are performed.

We hope this information will be helpful to your team.  If there is anything we can do to help you with your important work in the coming month, please just ask!

Cheers,

Ben

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Professor Benjamin J. McCall

Associate Director for Campus Sustainability

Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

campus-sustainability@illinois.edu

Attached here are the agenda and other relevant materials for the September 25, 2014 meeting of the iCAP Working Group.

Here is an example of unit costs for various replacements at the University of Connecticut late 2007. The estimates were by a plumbing firm. Says costs = material +labor