For Fiscal Year 2010, ACSA’s water system customer base includes approximately 16,500 water customers and approximately 13,500 wastewater customers broken into six customer classes. Total consumption for the water system in FY 2010 is estimated to be 1.60 billion gallons and total wastewater system usage is estimated to be 1.29 billion gallons. Table 2 below shows a breakdown of customer accounts and corresponding billable consumption and usage in the six existing customer classes and identified non-residential/ multi-family irrigation category.

In order to project the future number of customers, current customers were increased by an annual growth rate of 1.0% for FY 2011 – FY 2018. By the end of the planning period (FY 2018), the water and wastewater systems will serve approximately 17,830 and 14,590 total customers, respectively. Billable consumption and usage is projected to increase at a 0.5% annual growth rate for FY 2011 – FY 2018 resulting in 1.74 billion gallons of total billable consumption for the water system and 1.39 billion gallons of total billable usage for the wastewater system.