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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />APRIL 2, 2019 <br />TITLE: <br />RECEIVE AND FILE RECYCLED <br />WATER MASTER PLAN <br />(NONGENERAL FUND) <br />{STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 6, 1A} <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Receive and file the Recycled Water Master Plan. <br />DISCUSSION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 111 Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />The City Water Enterprise provides potable drinking water for all of the City's residents and <br />businesses, delivering an average of 30 million gallons a day. In order to accomplish this, the City <br />owns and operates a water system that consists of 480 miles of pipe, 22 groundwater wells, 4 <br />pressure control stations, 7 import water connections, 7 water booster stations, 8 reservoirs, and <br />45,000 service connections. <br />The City supplies water to meet its demand from three sources. About 75% of the water supply <br />comes from the local wells from the Lower Santa Ana River Groundwater Basin, also known as <br />the Orange County Groundwater Basin. About 24% is imported surface water from the Colorado <br />River and San Joaquin Delta purchased from the Metropolitan Water District, and approximately <br />1 % comes from recycled water sources. <br />The City of Santa Ana receives recycled water from the Orange County Water District (OCWD) <br />recycled water system called the Green Acres Project (GAP). GAP is a water reuse effort that <br />provides recycled water for landscape irrigation at parks, schools, and golf courses; industrial <br />uses, such as carpet dyeing; toilet flushing; and cooling for power generation. Currently, recycled <br />water use in Santa Ana is limited, but includes the irrigation of some City parks, schools, street <br />medians, green belts, and commercial -industrial uses. Only about 1% of the City's total water <br />demand (350 acre-feet) is supplied by recycled water. Using recycled water directly supplants <br />potable water use which, in turn, reduces the demand on the groundwater basin and preserves <br />potable supplies for other uses. <br />The existing recycled water distribution system exists in only a small portion of the City and is <br />wholly owned and operated by OCWD. In order for the availability and use of recycled water to <br />19C-1 <br />