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Friday, July 03, 2009

Great Northwest Missouri Wholesale Water Commission

Project Calculator

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How much is it going to cost?

Wondering how much it will cost your community to participate in the Water Partnership? The Satellite Environmental Finance Center has developed a "dashboard" to determine the expected monthly per customer cost for participating in the Water Partnership's source water distribution project.

The Dashboard is preloaded with key financial and customer information from the latest engineers' report. Communities can use the interactive features of the calculator to change capital and operational costs; number of customers and customer water use; and reinvestment factors to generate a "bottom line" cost per customer.

The Dashboard includes a special feature which allows each participating community to calculate the new total monthly expenses per customer for the project. Each water system can see what its unique net costs per customer will be by entering current costs and the efficiencies gained through the Partnership project.

Please contact Meghan Hemenway at the Satellite Environmental Finance Center Office if you have any questions at: (913) 551-5189.

Welcome to the EFC Tools section of our website! The financial analysis and planning tools listed here have been developed in response to the needs of our clients. They are designed to be used by communities of any size and they are available at no charge. Our goal is to provide decision-makers with the tools they need to more effectively address the “how to pay” issues of environmental protection.

For special assistance on how these tools work and/or how they might be applied to your situation, please take advantage of our free Training on Demand services.

EPA Watershed Funding

Committed watershed organizations and state and local governments need adequate resources to achieve the goals of the Clean Water Act and improve our nation's water quality. To support these efforts, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created this funding web site to provide tools, databases, and information about sources of funding to practitioners and funders that serve to protect watersheds.

EFC Financial Dashboard

EFC Financial Dashboard gives you the current and future financial status of your water system, an integral part of responsible management and of the highest importance to leaving the system in better condition for the next generation. The Environmental Finance Center’s Financial Dashboard will give a clear and powerful picture of how the system is currently doing, areas of improvement and what the future outlook is. After inputting information for each of the dashboards, you will be given a fully interactive tool that will allow for a limitless number of different scenarios.

Kansas Rate Checkup

KDHE Rate Checkup^tm is a stream-lined version of Rate Checkup^tm that has been developed for the State of Kansas. This version has fewer customer categories and does not factor in fire-protection or max-day flow costs when generating a rate for the customer. The rate charges generated by this version are based only on allocated fixed costs and volume charges. To review this model, CLICK HERE...

Plan2Fund

Plan2Fund is a watershed planning tool that walks users through estimating the costs of their watershed plans goals and objectives, assessing any local match, and determining the funding gap needed to meet the goals and objectives of the plan.

Plan2Fund OPT

Plan2Fund OPT has been developed with financial assistance from the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds through Order # EPEP06H001424.

Directory of Watershed Resources

The Directory of Watershed Resources - An on-line, searchable database of financial resources for watershed restoration in Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maryland, W. Virginia, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Alaska.

Guidebook of Financial Tools

A Guidebook of Financial Tools - A reference work that provides an overview of a wide range of ways and means that are useful in paying for sustainable environmental systems. It is divided into ten sections, presenting outline information on approximately 340 financial tools.

Capacity Tracker

Capacity Tracker ™ assists in tracking financial information over the duration of a loan. Using eight key ratios to collect and track information, the program shows the movement of the ratio over time and compares its overall condition or risk level to benchmarks.

Ratio8

Ratio8- A guidebook and spreadsheet program to help local decision makers evaluate their water utility's financial conditon.

Financial Analysis Calculator for Exemptions(FACE)

The Financial Analysis Calculator for Exemptions assists regulators in the process of reviewing a Public Water System’s application for an exemption to a drinking water standard through the analysis of a system’s financial and economic condition. The program generates reports on the current financial and economic condition of the system and trends over time, the affordability of current water rates, and the financial and affordability impacts of financing capital improvements to meet the water quality standard.

Rate Checkup

RateCheckup^tm- Powerful, easy-to-use rate-setting and financial planning software for water utilities.

Utility Budgeting Workbook

Utility Budgeting Workbook - Worksheets that assist operators, managers and board members in determining whether key criteria of financial viability are being met by a utility system and help determine if that system will have the financial capabilities necessary for the sustained provision of services for its customers.

System Development Charge Calculator

System Development Charge Calculator

This calculator predicts the unit cost of adding new development to an existing water system.

Built in Microsoft Excel, the SDC calculator can generate system development charges on an equivalent residential unit (ERU) basis or based on service meter size. Water system officials have the option of using the Growth Method or Equity Buy-In Method (or both) to determine how much new development should pay to connect to the existing water system.

The Calculator also easily imports data from your capital asset inventory database (developed in CAPFinance).

CAPFinance

CapFinance^tm- An integrated capital asset inventory and reinvestment analysis software program for drinking water and wastewater systems.

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