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CPUC Recycled Water OIR

CPUC Recycled Water OIR. August 30, 2011 Gary R. Lynch VP – Water Quality Park Water Company. PWC’s History with Recycled Water. Many months of pre-planning / discussion Central Basin Municipal Water District (CBMWD) Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD)

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CPUC Recycled Water OIR

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  1. CPUC Recycled Water OIR August 30, 2011 Gary R. Lynch VP – Water Quality Park Water Company

  2. PWC’s History with Recycled Water • Many months of pre-planning / discussion • Central Basin Municipal Water District (CBMWD) • Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD) • Metropolitan Water District of Southern Calif. (MWD) • Century Reclamation Project • Coordination meetings began April 1989 • 17 participants • First of at least 10 meetings over the next year

  3. Who Was Involved? • CBMWD • LACSD • MWD • 60 utilities • 30 cities • County unincorporated areas

  4. How It Would Work • CBMWD lead agency • Put up $300,000 for conceptual design and engineering • Coordinate design, construction, operation, responsibility for funding • Confirm users and get letters of intent • Purchase recycled water from LACSD • Coordinate retrofits for users • Coordinate institutional agreements • Funding included ~$20 million from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Title 16 Water Recycling Funding Program

  5. CBMWD Service Area

  6. CBMWD Recycled Water System

  7. CBMWD Recycled Water System • System subsidized by MWDSC ($/AF) • $10 per parcel annual tax • System has never come close to obtaining the customers initially identified • 2009/10 sales were 4,317 AF versus planned usage of >8,000 AF • Some very large customers have been lost • Two refineries went out of business before they ever used recycled water even though distribution lines were built to the facilities

  8. Are PUC Policy’s Hurting the Use of Recycled Water? • Since 2002, PWCs recycled water sales have dropped from 503 acre feet per year to 260 acre feet • Nurseries, who were the largest users, have lost their leases along Edison rights-of-way • Virtually all nurseries in Central Basin and San Gabriel Valley in Edison rights-of-way are gone • Why has Edison cancelled these leases? • The state economic issues have also eliminated all Caltrans users

  9. Southeast Water Reliability Project • No stakeholder involvement as in the original project – complete lack of transparency by CBMWD • 2000 state audit of CBMWD recommended that the District execute binding agreements with potential customers for at least 50% of expected deliveries before undertaking large capital projects • No realistic identification of users or any written commitments of recycled water users • Primary user, a new power plant in Vernon, probably will never be built

  10. Southeast Water Reliability Project • Serves groundwater utilities in upper part of basin • Paid for by surcharge on MWD purchases by member agencies in other parts of the basin • 70% of the MWD purchases are by IOUs with no benefit to their customers • $17 -19 million SWRP expenditures to date will net approximately 300 AF of recycled water use

  11. Apple Valley Ranchos Water Company • Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) proposed two sub-regional reclamation plants • Hesperia • Apple Valley

  12. Apple Valley Sub-Regional Plant • AVRWC not involved in any way in initial planning process for this project • AVRWC only opportunities to comment when Notice of Preparation and Preliminary Design Report and Initial Study for the Town of Apple Valley was released for public comment (2010) • Second opportunity with Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board’s Tentative Waste Discharge Requirements and Recycling Requirements (2011) • None of AVRWCs 2010 comments had been addressed by VVWRA in application to Lahontan

  13. Apple Valley Sub-Regional Plant • Existing scalping water already dedicated by groundwater adjudication to downstream beneficiary • City of Barstow • Golden State Water Company • Also to California Department of Fish and Game • Plant design includes “percolation ponds” located in dry lake beds (land that does not percolate) • Inadequately addresses potential water quality impacts on two nearby AVRWC wells

  14. Apple Valley Sub-Regional Plant • Project had only alluded to potential users – parks, schools and a country club golf course • No commitment letters • No cost-benefit analysis • No development of cost of water/distribution system • Project does not identify a purveyor for recycled water • Seems to assume that parks and schools will purchase water directly from VVWRA • Does not consider California service duplication law

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