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"According
to the City utilities billing office and the Albemarle County Service Authority,
residential water use accounts for about 80 percent of the urban area's
consumption. But the City does count some commercial entities among its
highest users, including UVA and eight public housing sites, as well as
10,000 apartment units.
Two weeks ago, a group of local restaurants, led by OXO, Blue Light,
and Rapture formed "Project H2O," in an effort to identify which
water conservation measures work best for restaurants. Participants are
encouraging all restaurants to voluntarily adopt the same measures -- including
the use of paper plates, providing limited drinking water and refusing fountain
drink refills, and supplying waterless hand soap in bathrooms -- so that
no one restaurant enjoys a competitive advantage by shrinking water restrictions.
City officials have praised project H2O, saying that people inside particular
industries are better suited than government officials to find ways to curtail
water waste. City Council is hoping that other big water users, like apartment
complexes and hotel chains, will organize in a similar manner.
The following is a list of the Top 25 water consumers in the City, as
measued by Charlottesville's utilities billing office. The data represents
water consumption duing the period between the "Read Date" and
September 24. The City's Top 100 users account for 24 percent of all water
consumption in the City."
Charlottesville's Top 25 Water Users
Name |
Address |
Read Date |
Consumption |
1. Martha Jefferson |
459 Locust Ave. |
Sept. 3 |
310,000 cu. ft. |
2. Pepsi-Cola Bottling |
1150 Pepsi Place |
Aug. 27 |
207,000 cu. ft. |
3. Erin Inc. |
1600 Emmet St. |
Aug. 27 |
193,900 cu. ft. |
4. Omni Hotel |
235 W. Main St. |
Sept. 4 |
158,600 cu. ft. |
5. Holiday Inn |
1901 Emmet St. |
Aug. 27 |
138,200 cu. ft. |
6. Housing Authority |
803 Hardy Drive |
Sept. 12 |
122,640 cu. ft. |
7. Housing Authority |
803 Hardy Drive |
Sept. 12 |
118,990 cu. ft. |
8. Garrett Square Apts. |
400 Garrett Square |
Aug. 19 |
110,200 cu. ft. |
9. Martha Jefferson |
459 Locust Ave. |
Sept. 3 |
97,000 cu. ft. |
10. Housing Authority |
1000 1st Street |
Aug. 19 |
88,700 cu. ft. |
11. Ashtree Apts. |
613 Madison Ave. |
Sept. 12 |
79,650 cu. ft. |
12. UVA Facilities Mngmt. |
583 Brandon Ave. |
Sept. 12 |
78,040 cu. ft. |
13. Chili's Restaurant |
100 Zan Road |
Aug. 27 |
76,470 cu. ft. |
14. Mount Vernon Motel |
1615 Emmet St. |
Aug. 27 |
71,260 cu. ft. |
15. Meadowbrook Cor |
1901 Ivy Road |
Sept. 12 |
70,400 cu. ft. |
16. 1800 JPA Ltd. (Apts.) |
1800 JPA |
Sept. 12 |
65,000 cu. ft. |
17. Red Roof Inn |
1313 W. Main St. |
Sept. 12 |
63,900 cu. ft. |
18. Hampton Inn |
2035 India Dr. |
Aug. 27 |
62,300 cu. ft. |
19. Residents Inn |
1111 Millmont St. |
Aug. 27 |
61,600 cu. ft. |
20. Bush Construction |
100 Ridge St. |
Aug. 27 |
60,400 cu. ft. |
21. Cedars Corp. |
1242 Cedars Ct. |
Aug. 27 |
59,500 cu. ft. |
22. GC of Charlottesville |
1185 Seminole Trail |
Aug. 27 |
56,310 cu. ft. |
23. Fry's Spring Beach Club |
2512 JPA |
Sept. 12 |
55,200 cu. ft. |
24. Management Services Corp. |
1600 6th St. SE |
Aug. 27 |
51,430 cu. ft. |
25. Aunt Sarah's LLC |
1615 Emmet St. |
Aug. 27 |
51,100 cu. ft. |
(John Borgmeyer, The C-ville Weekly, October 8-14, 2002).
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