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EXHIBIT 1 <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2011- <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA SUPPORTING ORANGE <br />COUNTY WATER DISTRICT'S GROUNDWATER <br />REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM INITIAL EXPANSION <br />PROJECT <br />Lss10/20/11 <br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA <br />AS FOLLOWS: <br />Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, <br />determines and declares as follows: <br />A. The Orange County Water District's (OCWD) Groundwater <br />Replenishment System (GWRS) is an advanced water purification <br />project that improves local water supply reliability through wastewater <br />reclamation and groundwater replenishment; and <br />B. The existing GWRS facility purifies approximately 72,000 acre-feet <br />per year (afy) of highly treated wastewater, enough to supply 600,000 <br />people; and <br />C. The GWRS improves the quality of water in our groundwater basin <br />by adding near-distilled quality water into the aquifer; and <br />D. OCWD plans to expand its GWRS to treat an additional 31,000 afy <br />of water, bringing the total production of GWRS facility to 103,000 <br />afy, enough to meet the needs of nearly 850,000 people ; and <br />E. Managing Southern California's water resources is critical to the <br />continued health and economic vitality of the region, including Los <br />Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Ventura Counties. The region <br />currently loses approximately 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater daily <br />to ocean outfall due to a lack of water recycling resources; and <br />F. The GWRS Initial Expansion will decrease Orange County's <br />dependency on imported water from the State Water Project and <br />the Colorado River; and <br />G. The GWRS produces water using one-half of the energy required to <br />import water from the State Water Project; and <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />55B-3