Item 36 - Grant Applications for Water Well Projects

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PROJECT INFORMATION FORM Please complete a unique Project Information Form for each project in the application. There are no character limits on specific questions but the Project Information Form as a whole may not exceed 10 pages. 1. Project Name: Well 32 Rehabilitation Improvement Project 2. Local Project Sponsor (if different than grantee): Same as grantee 3. Please provide the latitude and longitude of the project site. For linear projects or those covering a large area, report the coordinates for a central point. If this information is confidential, it must be clearly labeled “confidential.” You can find the latitude and longitude easily using google maps. You can find instructions at the following link: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/18539?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop. Latitude: 33°46'28.5 "N Longitude: 117°52'48.7"W 4. Please briefly describe the proposed project. Like several of the City’s groundwater wells, Well No. 32 has been inactive (since 2004) because of low operating efficiencies and high nitrate levels. In 2013, the City completed a study to review the nitrate levels present at Well No. 32 and evaluated alternatives for either treatment or blending with other sources. The result of that study is a recommended project that proposes to blend high nitrate water produced by Well 32 with low nitrate levels of groundwater produced by Santa Ana Wells 36 and 39, in the reservoirs located at the John Garthe Pump Station Complex. The Well 32 project will help build long-term resilience to drought and reduces the need for emergency response actions, while offering the following benefits: • Makes additional water supplies available (adding approximately 2500 gallons per minute (gpm) to the City’s pumping capacity). • Improves water management (by enhancing system flexibility). • Benefits fish, wildlife and the environment (by making the City less reliant on imported water). 5. Does this project respond to an existing emergency to humans and/or wildlife? If so, please describe the emergency and how this project is addressing it. Yes, the Project will install a local groundwater well that will increase the City of Santa Ana’s resilience to ongoing and future droughts. Currently the City acquires approximately 22% of its water supply from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s (MWD) imported water connections that receive water from the Colorado River and the State Water Project (SWP) from northern California, which are directly influenced by climate conditions in northern California and the Colorado River Basin, respectively. Both regions are currently experiencing and have been suffering from multi-year drought conditions which directly impact water supplies to southern California. For instance, due to the on-going drought conditions in the Colorado River Basin, the federal government declared a shortage on the Colorado