HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 9174RESOLUTION NO. 9174
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Adopting
the 2010 Urban Water Management Plan to be Submitted to
the California Department Of Resources and Approving the
use of Method One To Determine the City's 2020 Urban
Water Use Target and 2015 Interim Urban Water Use Target
In Compliance With the Water Conservation Act of 2009
WHEREAS, the California Legislature has enacted the Urban Water Management
Planning Act, California Water Code Sections 10610 -10656, as amended, which requires every
urban water supplier providing water to more than 3,000 customers or supplying more than 3,000
acre-feet of water annually to prepare an urban water management plan ("Plan") that has as its
primary objective the conservation and efficient use of water; and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto ("City"), a municipal utility and chartered city, is
an urban water supplier providing water to a population over 60,000; and
WHEREAS, the Plan must be reviewed at least once every five years by the City,
which must amend the Plan, as necessary, after it has conducted a review; and
WHEREAS, the preparation of the updated Plan has been coordinated with other
public agencies to the extent practicable, and staff has encouraged the active involvement of
diverse social, cultural and economic sectors of the population witlUn the City's retail water
service area during preparation of the Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Plan must be adopted by July 1, 2011, after it is first made available
for public inspection and a public hearing is noticed and held, and it must be filed with the
California Department of Water Resources within thirty days of adoption; and
WHEREAS, the California Legislature enacted the Water Conservation Act of 2009
(SBX7 -7), which requires each urban retail water supplier to develop an urban water use target
for the year 2020 and an interim urban water use target for the year 2015; and
WHEREAS, the City as an urban retail water supplier must adopt one of four
methods outlined in California Water Code 1 0608.20(b) for determining urban and interim urban
water targets; and
WHEREAS, the City has considered each of the four methods for calculating its
urban and interim urban water targets; and
WHEREAS, "Method One" is outlined in California Water Code Section
10608.20(b)(1), and is based on eighty percent of the urban water user's baseline gallons per
capita per day water use; and
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