HomeMy WebLinkAboutLetter of Support for Multisource Grant Application 7-24-20 BOZ E MAN MT
City Management
July 24, 2020
Jaime Nivala, MULTISOURCE Coordinator
INRAE-UR REVERSAAL
5 rue de la Doua
69625 Villeurbanne, France
Dear Jaime Nivala:
The City of Bozeman is delighted to lend support the H2O20 project MULTISOURCE,to be
submitted in response to the European Commission's Horizon 2020 call for proposals SC5-27-2020
-"Strengthening international collaboration:enhanced natural treatment solutionsfor watersecurity
and ecological quality in cities':
Bozeman is a rapidly growing city(4-5%annually) dependent on snowmelt runoff for its water
supply. Despite several programs to reduce water demand,water supply is limited. The City is in a
closed basin as the State of Montana has made a determination that all water in the area has been
fully allocated to existing uses and no new water rights are available, excluding negative effects of
climate change. Thus the City is actively seeking tools to better manage its water resources. In
addition, an increasingly stringent regulatory environment forces the City to look toward
innovative water quality remediation technologies to meet discharge targets. In fact,the City is
already in partnership with researchers at Montana State University(MSU) to pilot several natural
based treatment alternatives for water reclamation. The City of Bozeman welcomes the
opportunity to participate in the development and application of tools designed to enhance the
decision-making process for water supply,treatment and reuse and offer its perspectives that are
in line with stated goals and objectives of the MULTISOURCE project. If funded the City could
contribute the following toward the objectives of the MULTISOURCE project:
• provide performance data for current water treatment systems and a proposed pilot
Enhanced Natural Treatment System (ENTS) at the current water reclamation facility to
corroborate data from ENTS featured in WP1.
• provide data on current water infrastructure networks and projected future growth spatial
patterns to facilitate development of WP5 planning tools.
• provide feedback as a potential end-user at intermediate stages in development of tools for
planning, design and infrastructure selection development.
• once developed, run example applications of the tools for planning, design and
infrastructure selection.
Yours sincerely,
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City Manager
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