2023 Strategic Water Resources Plan Draft Program Environmental Impact Report

2023 Strategic Water Resources Plan Draft Program Environmental Impact Report

Palmdale Water District (PWD) has updated its Strategic Water Resources Plan (SWRP). The goal of this SWRP Update was to reevaluate PWD’s ability to meet the demands of both current and future customers through the year 2050 while aligning with PWD’s mission, vision, and core values. The SWRP Update, completed in June 2023, gives a new look at PWD’s long-term plan for supplying water to its customers. It looks at PWD’s current mix of water sources, which includes groundwater, surface water, imported water, and recycled water, to find the best way to meet the needs of a growing population under changing future conditions. A Preferred Strategy was identified that optimizes PWD’s mix of water sources up to the year 2050. The Preferred Strategy, referred to as the ‘proposed Project’, includes proposed actions that make the most of local water supplies and facilities and increase water storage in the Antelope Valley Groundwater Basin. The proposed Project is located throughout PWD’s 47-square mile service area in the Antelope Valley area of Los Angeles County, California.

Palmdale

Los Angeles

Southern California

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Lahontan Victorville Region 6 (RWQCB), California San Joaquin River Conservancy (SJRC), California Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Delta Protection Commission, Delta Stewardship Council, Office of Historic Preservation, San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 15, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 16, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 22, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 7, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, State Water Resources Control Board, Divison of Financial Assistance, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT)

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT)

Water Facilities (Purification Facility (5 mgd) and wells (1.7 mgd), and pipe)(Type Facility, wells, MGD 5)

Use Permit

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire