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Public Works Agency <br />https://www.santa-ana.org/pw <br />Item # 28 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />June 1, 2021 <br />TOPIC: Urban Water Management Plan and Water Shortage Contingency Plan <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Hold a Public Hearing to Adopt Resolutions Approving the 2020 Urban Water <br />Management Plan, the 2020 Water Shortage Contingency Plan and Amend the 2015 <br />Urban Water Management Plan <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />1. Adopt a resolution approving the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan. <br />2. Adopt a resolution approving the 2020 Water Shortage Contingency Plan. <br />3. Adopt a resolution amending the 2015 Urban Water Management Plan to add <br />Appendix J, Reduced Delta Reliance Reporting. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The City of Santa Ana, as an urban water supplier, is required by the Urban Water <br />Management Plan Act of 1983 (Act) to update and submit an Urban Water Management <br />Plan (UWMP) to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) every five years <br />(Exhibit 1). UWMPs are comprehensive documents that present an evaluation of a water <br />supplier’s reliability over a long-term horizon. The 2020 UWMP provides an assessment <br />of the present and future water supply sources and demands within the City’s service <br />area. It presents an update to the 2015 UWMP on the City’s water resource needs, water- <br />use efficiency programs, water reliability assessment and strategies to mitigate water <br />shortage conditions. It also presents a new 2020 Water Shortage Contingency Plan <br />designed to prepare for, and respond to, water shortages (Exhibit 2). The 2020 UWMP <br />contains all elements to meet compliance of the new requirements of the Act as amended <br />since 2015. <br />Delta Plan Policy WR P1, Reduce Reliance on the Delta Through Improved Regional <br />Water Self-Reliance (WR P1), is one of fourteen regulatory policies in the Delta Plan, and <br />identifies UWMPs as the tool to demonstrate consistency with state policy to reduce <br />reliance on the Delta for water suppliers that anticipates receiving water supply benefits <br />from the Delta. The 2015 UWMP did not include information regarding Delta Plan Policy <br />WR P1 as it was not required at that time. The 2020 UWMP Guidebook now recommends