SCH Number 2008052006

Project Info

Title

Revised Program EIR Water Supply Management Program 2040

Description

The WSMP 2040 is a long-range plan that identifies EBMUD's dry year water needs and proposes a program of policy initiatives to meet those needs through 2040. The portfolio of policy and project initiatives set forth in the WSMP 2040 consists of: (1) a rationing level of 15%; (2) additional conservation of 39 mgd; (3) additional recycled water supplies of 11 mgd; (4) Northern California water transfers; (5) Bayside Groundwater Project Phase 2; (6) Sacramento Basin groundwater banking / exchange; (7) a regional desalination project; (8) a project to raise Lower Bear Reservoir, (9) a San Joaquin County groundwater banking / exchange; and (9) participation in Contra Costa Water District's current project to expand Los Vaqueros Reservoir to store 160,000 acre-ft. of water. This WSMP 2040 long-range plan incorporates revisions to a prior version, correcting deficiencies to a in a Program EIR developed in 2009 for said plan (deficiencies as identified in the order issued by the Superior Court for the County of Sacramento in the matter of Foothill Conservancy et al. v. East Bay Municipal Utility District, Case No. 34-2010-80000491).

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