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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />FEBRUARY 6, 2018 <br />TITLE: <br />ADOPT RESOLUTIONS AND AUTHORIZE <br />GRANT APPLICATIONS FOR WATER <br />RECYCLING FUNDING & WATER SMART <br />DROUGHT RESPONSE PROGRAMS <br />(NONGENERAL FUND) <br />(STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 6, 1G) <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Adopt Resolutions agreeing to the terms <br />Resources Control Board Water Recycling <br />WaterSMART Drought Response Program <br />improvement project: <br />a. Recycled Water Master Plan <br />b. Well #32 Rehabilitation <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1a Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2n° Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />of participation in the California State Water <br />Funding Program and Bureau of Reclamation <br />for one planning project and one capital <br />2. Authorize the Executive Director of Public Works to submit a grant application for the <br />California State Water Resources Control Board's Water Recycling Funding Program for the <br />Recycled Water Master Plan in the amount of $75,000. <br />3. Authorize the Executive Director of Public Works to submit a grant application for Department <br />of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation's WaterSMART Drought Response Program for Well <br />#32 Rehabilitation Project in the amount up to $750,000. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The City of Santa Ana receives recycled water from the Orange County Water District (OCWD) <br />recycled water system called the Green Acres Project (GAP). GAP is a water reuse effort that <br />provides recycled water for landscape irrigation at parks, schools, and golf courses; industrial <br />uses, such as carpet dying; toilet flushing; and cooling for power generation. Currently, recycled <br />water use in Santa Ana is limited but includes the irrigation of some City parks, schools, street <br />medians, green belts, and commercial -industrial uses. Only about one percent of the City's total <br />water demand (350 acre-feet) is supplied by recycled water. The recycled water consumed <br />5513-1 <br />