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REPORT - 2020 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN AND 2020 WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN
BACKGROUND: The Urban Water Management Planning Act (Act) requires every urban water supplier that provides water for municipal purposes to more than 3,000 connections or supplying more than 3,000 acre-feet per year (AFY) of water to adopt and submit an Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) every five years. The Act requires very specific information to be included in the UWMP and requires the urban water supplier to hold a public hearing to review and adopt the UWMP. The deadline for water suppliers to submit their 2020 UWMP to DWR is July 1, 2021.
The City is an urban supplier of water for approximately 54,000 connections supplying approximately 19,000 AFY of water and is therefore required to comply with the Act. The City’s previous UWMP was the 2015 UWMP, which was adopted by the City Council in June 2016.
The Act includes a requirement to prepa...
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