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• R -2, Each Orange County retail and wholesale water agency should affirm its <br />responsibility to develop new, additional, innovative public outreach programs, <br />beyond water conservation and rationing programs, to expose the larger issues <br />surrounding water supply constraints facing Orange County. The objective <br />should be to connect the public with the problem. The outreach effort should <br />entail a water emergency exercise that simulates a complete, sudden break in <br />imported water deliveries. The exercise should be aimed directly at the public <br />and enlist widespread public participation on a recurring basis beginning by <br />June 30, 2010. This recommendation may be satisfied by a multi- agency exercise <br />but the inability to coordinate such an event should not preclude the individual <br />agency's responsibility. <br />This recommendation has already been implemented. <br />"A complete sudden break in the imported supplies" was a component of the <br />statewide Golden Guardian exercise in 2008 in which 20 of Orange County's water <br />and wastewater utilities participated. The City of Santa Ana participated in the <br />Golden Guardian exercise. This type of exercise, or variations of it, are repeated <br />periodically. <br />It should be noted here that, in the event of a sudden break in imported water <br />deliveries, the City of Santa Ana has the capacity to supply 100% of the City's <br />demands from local groundwater supplies for an extended period of time. <br />• R -4, Each Orange County retail and wholesale water agency should affirm its <br />commitment to a fair -share financial responsibility in completing the emergency <br />water supply network for the entire County. The entire County should be <br />prepared together for any conditions of drought, natural or human - caused <br />disaster, or any other catastrophic disruption. WEROC should commence <br />meetings of all parties, to facilitate consensus on an equitable funding/financing <br />agreement. <br />This recommendation is already being implemented through MWDOC. <br />The Water Emergency Response Organization of Orange County ( WEROC) has been <br />established to conduct emergency planning and preparedness at the regional level and <br />response to disaster -type events that impact the water and wastewater agencies within <br />the County. WEROC participates with Regional and statewide forums as well. The <br />City of Santa Ana participates in WEROC. The City of Santa Ana also has an <br />emergency plan and conducts activities to be in a state of emergency preparedness. <br />The financial level of commitment and specific limits of emergency conditions would <br />need to be further defined prior to the City of Santa Ana's involvement in the <br />development of any funding /financing agreement. The timeframe for committing the <br />City's financial participation in this effort will depend on the process coordinated by <br />WEROC. <br />19E -7 <br />