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14 2. Water Conservation Study. Each of the City and ACSA, as the “retailers” of treated water to the community, will determine how water is being used by their customers, review conservation programs and incentives, review rate structures, and develop alternatives for more aggressive water conservation and water use efficiency measures. The study by the City and ACSA shall include a nationwide review of the best practices of water conservation measures that have been successfully implemented by other water providers. 3. Dredging Feasibility Study. If the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir Stewardship Task Force recommends dredging as a means of maintaining the reservoir, RWSA will in a timely manner retain an engineering firm with specialization and experience in dredging engineering and operations practices to evaluate the fesibility and opinion of cost of maintenance dredging of the reservoir, consistent with the purposes of dredging as defined in the recommendation. 4. Pipeline to Ragged Mountain Study. RWSA will retain a firm to review the reasonableness of the methodology and opinion of cost used by Gannett Fleming in 2005 in its conceptual design of the pipeline from the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir to the Ragged Mountain Reservoir. This review will be within the context of the objectives established in 2005, to include the operating rules for the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir and the expanded Ragged Mountain Reservoir and the desire to control sediment transfer between the reservoirs. The review will also include an assessment of the impact of the size of the pipeline on necessary storage capacity of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir, using existing modeling techniques. The cost of the review required by this paragraph will not exceed $25,000. Rivanna will also provide a summary list of the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed South Fork Rivanna Reservoir pipeline, the Sugar Hollow Reservoir pipeline, and a pipeline from the James River, based on information currently available. 5. The parties to this MOU agree that actual construction work on the enlargement of the Ragged Mountain dam will not begin until all studies and reviews outlined in this MOU have been completed and presented to the four governing bodies. 6. No Board of Consultants. RWSA will not retain or engage a Board of Consultants made up of senior executive level engineers to assist it with development of the scope of work for the studies outlined above, or to meet with regulatory agencies, or provide quality control review of the studies outlined above or prepare any final recommendations to RWSA. 7. Time Frames. RWSA agrees to promptly and expeditiously make arrangements for the Ragged Mountain Dam Design Review, the Dredging Feasibility Study (if such study is recommended as provided in paragraph 3, above) and the Pipeline to Ragged Mountain Study outlined in Paragraphs 1, 3 and 4 above, with the understanding that obtaining such studies shall minimize, to the extent practicable, the expected delay in the scheduled time-frame for construction of the new Ragged Mountain Reservoir Dam. At the request of the Parties, the City and ACSA agree to promptly and