2006 Water Comprehensive Plan - City of Bellevue

• Voluntary Stage: Voluntary support and cooperation of customers is reliedupon to meet target consumption goals in response to a water shortage.• Mandatory Stage: If voluntary support and cooperation by customers does notreduce demand enough to meet target consumption goals, or if supplyconditions continue to deteriorate, mandated restrictions are placed ondiscretionary water uses in order to meet consumption goals.• Rationing Stage: Water rationing is implemented only when a critical watersupply situation exists which threatens availability of water for public healthand safety.The Water Shortage Response Team includes staff from the Engineering and Operations &Maintenance Divisions, from the Utilities Department Director’s Office, and the Utility’sPublic Information Officer. Water conservation staff are responsible for maintaining theWater Shortage Contingency Plan and response team composition. The complete responseteam roster is contained in the Plan, along with the names, titles, work and home phonenumbers of the staff (in ranked order) responsible for assembling and directing the WaterShortage Response Team, and the Utility’s response in the event of a water shortage.5-22