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INSURANCE NOT ON FILE A-2017-183 <br />WORK MAY NOT PROCEED <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL <br />DATE: LLOZ Z Z oRtl(�o <br />() ; r "" '� C2) AGREEMENT BETWEEN ORANGE COUNTY WATER, DISTRICT AND <br />0-, k f Paw. CITY OF SANTA ANA REGARDING <br />DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF GREEN ACRES PROJECT WATER. <br />THIS AGREEMENT ("Agreement"), is made and entered into as of July 1, 2017, by and <br />between the ORANGE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT, a special governmental district <br />(hereinafter "OCWD") and the CYI'Y OF SANTA ANA, a charter city and municipal corporation <br />organized and existing under the laws of the State of California (hereinafter "RETAILER"). <br />RECITALS <br />A. OCWD was created by the OCWD Act, Ch. 924, Stats. 1933, as amended, for the <br />purpose of protecting and managing the Orange County groundwater basin. The OCWD Act <br />empowers OCWD to manage the groundwater basin, to provide for the conservation of the <br />quantity and quality of water in the groundwater basin, to conserve and reclaim water within or <br />outside of 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. OCWD purchases imported water from the Metropolitan Water District of <br />Southern California (hereinafter "MWD"), through its member public agencies, for spreading <br />and replenishment purposes, and obtains wastewater from the Orange County Sanitation District <br />(hereinafter "OCSD") for renovation -reclamation, spreading and replenishment purposes, and <br />groundwater injection. <br />C. A portion of the reclaimed wastewater currently produced by OCWD is suitable <br />for a number of non -potable uses, including but not limited to, landscape irrigation and industrial <br />uses. <br />D, RETAILER is a municipal corporation and charter city organized and existing <br />pursuant to the laws of the State of California. RETAILER is the exclusive retail water purveyor, <br />including water for residential, industrial, commercial, public agency, agricultural and other uses, <br />within RETAILER's boundaries. RETAILER currently distributes potable water in part <br />purchased from the MWD and in part produced from groundwater within its boundaries. The <br />corporate and water service boundaries of RETAILER arc within the jurisdictional boundaries of <br />OCWD. <br />E. Landscape irrigation and industrial water users within the jurisdictional and <br />service boundaries of RETAILER currently either purchase potable or non -potable water from <br />RETAILER for their use, or produce water from the groundwater basin by means of their own <br />facilities for their use, which private groundwater production is under the jurisdiction and control <br />of OCWD. <br />1 of 20 <br />