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WF24 Project Status Update Water Forward 2024 (WF24) Project Plan Task 1 - Project Management Task 2 - Community Engagement Task 3. Refine planning methodology Task 4. Forecast baseline water demands Task 6. Identify water resource needs Task 7. Identify, screen, and characterize strategies Task 8. Develop and evaluate 50-year water resource portfolio Task 9. Develop plan recommendations and 100-year adaptive management plan Task 5. Update climate and hydrology analysis 1/2022 1/2023 1/2024 Develop Equity and Affordability Roadmap (EARM) Develop Equity and Affordability Tool (EAT) Characterize water management strategies using EAT metrics Use EAT to evaluate portfolios Refine portfolios in alignment with EAT and other objectives WF24 Task Progress to Date & Next Steps Task Name Progress to Date Next Steps 1 Project Management • Updated schedule for Equity Grounding Workshops • Continued consultant procurement process • Continue last stages of consultant procurement process 2 Community Engagement • Onboarded Water Forward Community Ambassadors. • Completed Water Forward University for Ambassadors. • Complete planning of first community workshop • Complete draft EEP • Build and launch SpeakUp Austin Page 3 Planning Methodology • Received additional WF Task Force feedback on draft mission statement, guiding principles, and objectives • Continued work to define WF24 modeling scenarios (hydrology, demands, supply) • Complete mission statement, guiding principles, and objectives (pending further adjustment as necessary to reflect community input and EARM) Finalize modeling scenarios to be used in preliminary needs analysis and begin development of model parameters. 4 Demand Forecast • Substantially completed estimate of 2020 population and • Complete development of 100-year control total continued development of 100-year control total projections • Substantially completed Disaggregated Demand Model projections and DTI-level projections • Complete DDM structural update work (DDM) structural improvements 5 Climate and Hydrology Analysis • Re-gridded Global Climate Model (GCM) data, performed trend analysis of climate variables over the Colorado River Basin and Austin, and began development of hydrologic models • Held Climate Technical Advisory Group meeting 4/12 Finalize hydrologic models, develop monthly streamflow timeseries, and create ensembles for the Water Availability Model (WAM.) • • WF24 Future Milestones  Early June Virtual Public Workshops • Two public workshops to present info on WF24 mission statement, guiding principles, and objectives and seek input on community values, and equity and affordability considerations  SAVE THE DATE: June 8th and 9th Equity Workshop & June 27th Debrief • Two-day equity workshop for Task Force members, Community Advisory Group members, and a small number of AW Staff  July 12th WFTF meeting • Staff updates on 1) population and employment projections, 2) planned June equity trainings, 3) planned June public workshops WF24 Future Milestones  September 6th WFTF meeting • Staff updates on 1) demand projections, 2) Climate and Hydrology Analysis results, 3) Draft Equity and Affordability Roadmap • Likely will need to move this meeting to the week of September 19th to have time to finalize planned deliverables  November 1st WFTF meeting • Staff updates on 1) preliminary water supply needs analysis results, 2) Yield updates for Water Forward 2018 core water management strategies, 3) progress update on Equity and Affordability Roadmap and Tool development Questions