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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />JULY 7, 2008 <br />TITLE: <br />AMENDMENT TO GROUNDWATER STORAGE <br />PROGRAM FUNDING AGREEMENT <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />^ As Recommended <br />^ As Amended <br />^ Ordinance on 1S' Reading <br />^ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />^ Implementing Resolution <br />^ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />/ C17'Y MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Authorize the City Manager <br />attached third amendment to <br />with the Metropolitan Water <br />Water District of Orange Cour. <br />to non-substantive changes <br />Attorney. <br />FILE NUMBER <br />and Clerk of the Council to execute the <br />the groundwater storage funding agreement <br />District of Southern California, Municipal <br />qty and Orange County Water District, subject <br />approved by the City Manager and City <br />DISCUSSION <br />In Aril 2001, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California <br />(MWD) approved funding for a groundwater storage program proposed by the <br />Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC) and the Orange County <br />Water District (OCWD). In January of 2004, The City of Santa Ana entered <br />into an agreement with OCWD and MWDOC to participate in this program. <br />The ground water storage program allows for up to 60,000 acre feet of <br />excess MWD surface water to be delivered by MWD and stored during normal <br />and wet years in the Orange County groundwater basin. Currently, <br />approximately 48,000 acre feet have been stored under this program. <br />During drought or emergency periods, as much as 22,000 acre feet per year <br />could be extracted from the groundwater basin. OCWD and the <br />participating groundwater agencies, including Santa Ana, will be asked to <br />pump a total of 22,000 acre feet from storage during fiscal year 2008-09. <br />The storage program includes <br />strategically located in the OC4 <br />constructed and are connected to <br />provide backup pumping capacity. <br />the eight new wells, Well No. 40 <br />located at the Santa Ana Stadium. <br />funding for eight new water wells <br />JD service area. The wells have been <br />the individual city's water system to <br />The City of Santa Ana received two of <br />located at Mabury Park and Well No. 41 <br />250-1 <br />