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Plan budget, 2027–2030

The Water Efficiency Plan’s 2027–2030 budget envelope is $354M–$420M total. The largest single line is the Accelerated Water Loss Program ($179M) — pipe replacement, leak detection, copper-lead service replacement, and similar infrastructure work. Advanced metering is $161M, the second-largest line. Programs and policies (the “rules” portion: outdoor schedule, rate design, education, business programs) total $12.5M of operating budget — about 3.5% of the plan.

Pipe replacement (the Accelerated Water Loss Program, $179M) is the Plan’s largest line — more than the advanced-metering line ($161M) that some critics frame as the headline cost. Hand-transcribed from Attachment 8 Tables 1–2 of Council Document CD2026-0150 (the Water Efficiency Plan administrative report) · capital figures are 2027–2030 estimates from Table 2; ten-year totals from Attachment 13 as referenced in Table 2.