How We Evaluate Performance
Ground Rules
Recognition is awarded to a site that has shown an acceptable level of performance on some or all of its meters. We evaluate each meter for every site. Every quarter we run our evaluation queries to determine if a site is still performing. Evaluation takes into account the past 12 months of performance.
In order to get a meter as close as possible to the budget, three factors must apply: 1) The system’s distribution uniformity (DU) should be at 62.5% or better; 2) The landscape contractor should have access to the CLBP website to monitor performance and should be in control of the irrigation timers’ programming; and 3) Every month, the property manager/owner should work with the landscaper to bring the meter(s) consumption close to budget.
When evaluating performance, we rely strictly on the performance reports already posted on the website. We do not make subjective evaluations or give preference to any site listed. We only include those sites that are currently participating in our program and their respective companies.
We then simply run a series of queries from the performance reports to tally how many meters each site has and how close to the budget those meters are performing. To accomplish this, we list the sites that meet the performance criteria. The combined consumption divided by the combined budget will tell us how far from the budget the site is performing. To qualify for evaluation, each meter for every site should meet the following criteria:
- The meter and account number you provided us should match the meter/account number combination that we get from the water service company.
- Each meter should have an accurate area measurement of the landscape it irrigates via the irrigation controller(s). A meter with an excessive discrepancy between the area in our records and the real irrigated area will show numbers far off from the calculated monthly budget. These meters will never have a chance to make to the list. You may want to re-measure the area on those meters that are showing excessive savings or that are constantly over-watering.
Evaluating Performance
After grouping these sites by number of meters, we acknowledge those sites for which their meters that have stayed as close as possible to the budget over the past 12 months. Successful sites will fall between these ranges:
- We will establish a floor of -45% from the budget and a ceiling of +25% from the budget.
- We will list the sites where their meters are performing within the ceiling and the floor described above.
- To the side of each site, we will list the landscape contractor company servicing the site. The contractor information will be listed if their information is on our records. If your site is listed and your landscape contractor is not on the list, please contact Alison Jordan via e-mail at AJordan@SantaBarbaraCA.gov so that we can add their records to our database.
Final note: we do not post the actual percentages or number of meters per site since we consider these details to be sensitive information. If you have questions as of how we calculated your specific site’s performance, please contact Julio Sánchez, program manager, at Julio@econservision.com to request a review and explanation of your numbers.