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PUBLIC HEARING - 2015 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN AND 2015 URBAN 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, in years ending with a “5” or “0”. The deadline for water suppliers to adopt their 2015 UWMP was extended from December 31, 2015 to July 1, 2016. The City is an urban supplier of water for approximately 53,000 connections supplying approximately 20,000 AFY of water and is therefore required to comply with the Act.
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 City’s previous UWMP was the 2010 UWMP, which was adop...
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