Laserfiche WebLink
01 <br />FIRST AMENDMENT <br />TO <br />GROUNDWATER STORAGE PROGRAM FUNDING AGREEMENT <br />BY AND AMONG <br />THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, <br />ORANGE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT, AND <br />MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT OF ORANGE COUNTY <br />THIS AMENDMENT TO THE GROUNDWATER STORAGE PROGRAM <br />FUNDING AGREEMENT, dated as of June 25, 2003, is entered into effective as of May I, 2004 <br />by and among The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a public entity of the <br />State of California, the Orange County Water District, a water district of the State of California <br />and the Basin Manager for the Orange County Basin, and the Municipal Water District of <br />Orange County, a municipal water district of the State of California. <br />RECITALS <br />A. Since execution of the Agreement in June 2003, the Parties have developed Annual <br />Operating flans for the storage of water in the Metropolitan Storage Account. Water <br />may be stored through in -lieu deliveries or through direct spreading in basins operated <br />and maintained by Orange County Water District. To increase opportunity and flexibility <br />to deliver water to the Metropolitan Storage. Account, the Parties have discussed use of <br />Service Connection OC-59 to make deliveries for direct spreading to the Metropolitan <br />Storage Account. OC-59 is located on the Rialto Pipeline upstream of Prado Flood <br />Control Basin and such deliveries are reviewed by the Santa Ana River Watermaster to <br />assess channel losses. Because the Agreement addresses only groundwater basin losses, <br />this amendment is needed to address channel losses should the Parties agree to deliver <br />water to the Metropolitan Storage Account using Service Connection OC-59. <br />B. The Parties anticipate that the preferred means to store water in the Metropolitan Storage <br />Account will be through in -lieu storage or through direct storage Using the 'Y'orba Linda <br />Feeder Bypass, upon completion, to deliver water to the spreading basins owned and <br />operated by the Orange County Water District. Use of OC-59 for this purpose is <br />anticipated by the Parties to be used on occasion to increase opportunities to store water. <br />C. The Orange County Water District, Municipal Water District of Orange County, and <br />Metropolitan have entered into the Groundwater Storage Program Funding Agreement <br />and desire by this First Amendment to make certain additions to such Agreement to <br />incorporate this additional flexibility, while otherwise continuing the Agreement as <br />amended in frill force and effect, <br />NOW THEREFORE, it is mutually agreed that the following changes and <br />additions are hereby made to the Agreement: <br />First Amendment <br />RECORD NO, <br />0CV.,D noC. <br />FILE W10MON0. -L/o <br />Groundwater Storage <br />