75A - PH 2005 URBAN WATER MGMT PLAN

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Amendment to City of Santa Ana's 2005 UWMP October 22, 2008 of sewers, water mains, pump stations, chlorinators and improvement projects on SCADA systems." Over the past year, the City has completed a major SCADA system upgrade, which included new RTUs at all sites and installation of a new radio based communication system. Additionally, the City just completed and placed into operation two new wells (Nos. 40 and 41) as part of the OCWD/MWD groundwater storage program. The City also has an on-going well and pump rehabilitation program, which calls for pulling and refurbishing at least one pump per year. Over the next seven fiscal years the City's CIP includes water main replacements with project funding starting at $4.6 M in FY 2008/09 and increasing to $6.5 M for FY 2013/14. While each of the aforementioned projects improves the reliability of the City's water supply, these improvements do not directly increase the City's water supply. This may seem counter-intuitive with respect to the two new wells, but the amount of groundwater pumped by the City is strictly limited by the Basin Production Percentage (BPP) established by the Orange County Water District and the groundwater producers. The BPP, which is adjusted periodically, sets the maximum amount of water the City can pump from the basin in any given year, regardless of how many wells are used to produce that volume of water. c. DWR Response -The added information and clarification on the subject of planned projects for the City of Santa Ana addresses the law. 3. Water Shortage Contingency Plan Section -Stages of Action a. DWR's May 12, 2008 Comments on City's Apri19, 2008 Draft Amendment -The Water Shortage Contingency Plan Section of the UWMP Law under Water Code 10632 (a) clearly requires the City to provide stages of action within their Water Shortage Contingency Plan and needs to indicate supply conditions for each stage. The Law also requires the City to include plans fora 50 percent supply shortage. Even though Phase 3 of the City's Emergency Water Conservation Plan call for 20% reduction by their customers or less does not address the Law of having plans to deal with a 50% supply shortage. The City is stating that because the phrase or less is in the phase 3 wordage they are addressing the Law of having a plan fora 50% supply shortage. The Law is very clear on this section; However, Mr. Dave Todd, who is the program manager for the urban plans, can give a better determination on the subject. Mr. Todd can determine and allow the City to use the or less phrase as meeting the 50% supply shortage as required by Law. Therefore, Mr. Todd who is being cc on this e-mail can give us his determination and we can proceed with the rest of the review process. ~e~~f~0