ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE ADVISORY REPORT

APPENDIX: GENERAL CATEGORY MATRICES

General Category: Water Use

	Units	Normalization
Environmental Performance Indicators (1)
Total Water Use	Gallons	Gallons/person

Operational Metrics (4)
Total Purchased Water	Gallons	Gallons/person
*Total Discharged to Sewers	Gallons	Gallons/person
**Building Specific Water Use	Gallons	Gallons/person
**Total Irrigation Water	Gallons	Gallons/area maintained green
		space

Programs and Initiatives (examples)
Eco Program (focus on water conservation)	Education and outreach to influence behavior
Greening of Dana	Waterless urinals
	Composting toilets
Cooling Tower Optimization
Sanitary and Storm Water Pollution	Retention basins
Prevention Program

*Data is not yet collected for this indicator.

** Limited data is collected for this indicator.

General Category: Land Use – Built and Natural Spaces

	Units	Normalization
Environmental Performance Indicators (1)
Total Impervious Surface Area	Acres	Percent of campus area

Operational Metrics (9)
Total Green Space	Acres	Percent of campus area
Maintained Green Space	Acres	Percent of campus area
Unmaintained (Natural) Green Space	Acres	Percent of campus area
Impervious Surface	Acres	Percent of campus area
Tree Population	Number of Trees
Protected Natural Spaces		Percent of campus area
Total Building Area	Total building square	Square footage/person
	footage
LEED Certification	Number of LEED certified	Percent of total buildings
	buildings on campus
Deck Parking	Percentage of all parking spaces that are in parking decks

Programs and Initiatives (examples)
Conversion of Surface Lots to Porous
Pavement
Wetland Projects
Invasive Species Control

General Category: Emissions – Air and Water Pollutants

	Units	Normalization
Environmental Performance Indicators (1)
Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions	Metric tons of CO2 eqv. Metric tons of carbon eqv.	MT CO2 eqv./person MTCE/person

Operational Metrics (6)
Criteria Air Pollutants from Stationary Sources (O₃[25], PM, CO, NOX, SO2, Pb)	Pounds emitted for each pollutant	Pounds/person
* Air Pollutants from Mobile Sources	Pounds emitted for each pollutant	Pounds/person
Fertilizer Use (e.g., potassium, phosphorous, nitrogen)	Pounds	Pounds/person
Salt Use	Pounds	Pounds/person
Sand Use	Pounds	Pounds/person
Pesticide Use, Solid and Liquid (includes herbicides, insecticides and fungicides)	Pounds (solids) or gallons (liquids)	Pounds or gallons per person

Programs and Initiatives (examples)
Continuous Emissions Monitoring	Power plant emissions monitored using a chemical analyzer

General Category: Material Use and Solid Waste

	Units	Normalization
Environmental Performance Indicators (2)
Total Solid Waste	Tons	Tons/person
Percent Recycled	Percent

Operational Metrics (12)
Hospital Waste	Tons	Tons/person**
Waste from Campus Buildings	Tons	Tons/person
Waste from Auxiliary Buildings	Tons	Tons/person
Paper Recycled	Tons	Percent of total paper generated
Glass Containers Recycled	Tons	Percent of total glass generated
Plastics Recycled	Tons	Percent of total plastics
		generated
Metal Containers Recycled	Tons	Percent of total metal generated
Construction In-house Waste Recycled	Tons	Percent of total construction in
		house waste generated
Composting	Tons	Tons/person
Reuse (PD or Ann Arbor Recycling)	Tons	Tons/person
Materials Reuse (Housing Moveout)	Tons	Tons/person**
*Paper Purchases and Recycled Paper	Tons	Tons/person
Purchases Including Chlorine-Free Paper

Programs and Initiatives (examples)
Recycling Initiative
Composting Program
Greening of Dana	Composting toilets
Recycling Award Program
Property Disposition
Ann Arbor Reuse

General Category: Cross Cutting and Emerging Issues

	Units	Normalization
Environmental Performance Indicators (example, additional indicators to developed over time)
Building Utilization	Total conditioned building square footage	Square footage/person

Operational Metrics (examples)
Educational Programs and Initiatives	Assessment procedures to be developed
LEED Certification	Number of buildings (Include LEED award level)	Percent of total buildings
Aesthetics	Number of planning, architecture and environmental design awards received.

Programs and Initiatives (to be determined over time)

25 Ozone is not emitted directly into the air, but rather is created at ground level by a
chemicalreaction between NOx and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the presence of heat and sunlight.

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