WHAT IS A HUNDRED CUBIC FOOT (CCF)?
A CCF is the city’s water billing unit as measured by an individual’s water meter. Every 748 gallons of measured
consumption through a water meter represents a CCF. The actual number of CCF used by each household is printed on the
city’s monthly utility bill.
WHAT DOES 1 CCF REPRESENT?
Typical Residential
Water Uses
toilet flushes
Efficient
Appliances / Fixtures
584 flushes (1.28 gpf)
Older Less Efficient
Appliances / Fixtures
150 flushes (5 gpf)
10 minute showers
30 showers (2.5 gpm)
25 showers (3 gpm)
clothes washer
25 loads (30 gpl)
19 loads (40 gpl)
dishwasher
93 loads (8 gpl)
57 loads (13 gpl)
running faucet
374 minutes (2 gpm)
300 minutes (2.5 gpm)
one sprinkler valve
50 minutes (15 gpm)
same
glass of water
13,464 glasses (8 oz.)
same
brushing teeth
1,496 brushings (0.5 gpb)
374 brushings (2 gpb)
leak losses
-0Every 2 days (0.25 gpm)
gpf = gallons per flush, gpm = gallons per minute, gpl = gallons per load, gpb = gallons per brushing
A 0.25 gpm leak is the water loss through a hole in a pipe about twice the size of this period.
Source: City of Davis Public Works Department