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GREEN ACRES PROJECT RESERVOIR AND CITY OF SANTA ANA RESERVOIR <br />PERIMETER SITE IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN ORANGE COUNTY <br />WATER DISTRICT AND CITY OF SANTA ANA <br />This GREEN ACRES PROJECT RESERVOIR AND CITY OF SANTA ANA RESERVOIR <br />PERIMETER SITE IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT ( "AGREEMENT ") is entered as of <br />2014 by and between the ORANGE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT, a special <br />governmental district organized and existing pursuant to the Orange County Water District Act, <br />Chapter 924, Statutes of 1933, as amended ( "OCWD "), and the CITY OF SANTA ANA, a <br />municipal corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California ( "CITY "). <br />RECITALS <br />A. Approximately two - thirds of all drinking water currently used within northern and <br />central Orange County is provided from groundwater managed and replenished by OCWD. <br />Inasmuch as Orange County is located in a semi -arid area, it is essential that all reasonable <br />efforts be put forth to protect the quality of groundwater supplies and to provide for maximum <br />utilization of that resource. The OCWD Act empowers OCWD to conserve and reclaim water <br />within or outside the boundaries of OCWD, to sell or otherwise put to beneficial use any water or <br />reclaimed wastewater in order to conserve groundwater resources, and to distribute water to <br />persons in exchange for ceasing or reducing the extraction of groundwater from the groundwater <br />basin. <br />B. CITY is a municipal corporation organized and existing pursuant to the laws of <br />the State of California. The CITY is the exclusive retail water purveyor, including water for <br />residential, industrial, commercial, public agency, agricaltural and other uses, within the CITY's <br />boundaries. The CITY currently distributes potable water in part produced from groundwater <br />within its boundaries. <br />C. OCWD and CITY entered into an agreement on September 21, 1988 entitled <br />AGREEMENT BETWEEN ORANGE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT AND CITY OF SANTA <br />ANA REGARDING DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF GREEN ACRES PROJECT WATER <br />( "GAP AGREEMENT"). The GAP AGREEMENT provides for the distribution and sale of <br />recycled water to the CITY through OCWD's Green Acres Project, The CITY in turn sells the <br />recycled water to end - users. OCWD and CITY mutually aoknowledge that the use of recycled <br />water for landscape irrigation and other non - potable uses is of mutual 'benefit to OCWD and the <br />CITY in fulfilling their joint responsibilities for the conservation of water resources in <br />accordance with Sections 13550 and 13551 of the California Water Code. <br />D. OCWD purchased an existing potable water reservoir from CITY in 1995. <br />OCWD converted this reservoir to serve the Green Acres Project recycled water distribution <br />system. The OCWD Green Acres Project reservoir is located adjacent to a CITY potable water <br />reservoir. The two reservoirs share a perimeter fence. <br />25F -3 <br />