Item 21 - Public Hearing - Resolutions Approving the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan and the 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan

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2025 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN MAY 2026/FINAL DRAFT/CAROLLO >> Section 3.4 Shortage Response Actions describes the WSCP's shortage response actions that align with the defined shortage levels. >> Section 3.5 Communication Protocols addresses communication protocols and procedures to inform customers, the public, interested parties, and local, regional, and state governments, regarding any current or predicted shortages and any resulting shortage response actions. Section 3.6 Compliance and Enforcement describes customer compliance, enforcement, appeal, and exemption procedures for triggered shortage response actions. » Section 3.7 Legal Authorities describes the legal authorities that enable the City to implement and enforce its shortage response actions. Section 3.8 Financial Consequences of the WSCP provides a description of the financial consequences of and responses for drought conditions. Section 3.9 Monitoring and Reporting describes monitoring and reporting requirements and procedures that ensure appropriate data is collected, tracked, and analyzed for purposes of monitoring customer compliance and to meet state reporting requirements. Section 3.10 WSCP Refinement Procedures addresses reevaluation and improvement procedures for monitoring and evaluating the functionality of the WSCP. Section 3.11 Special Water Feature Distinction provides a required definition for inclusion in a WSCP per the Water Code. Section 3.12 Plan Adoption, Submittal, and Availability describes the process the City followed to adopt its WSCP. The WSCP is based on adequate details of demand reduction and supply augmentation measures that are structured to match varying degrees of shortage and will aim to make the relevant stakeholders understand what to expect during a water shortage situation.The City adopted water shortage levels consistent with the requirements identified in Water Code Section 10632 (a)(3)(A) (Table 8.1). The six shortage levels the City uses in their water shortage planning and documented in their WSCP are the same as DWR's six standard shortage levels in terms of percentage shortage range for each of the six levels, as indicated in Table 8.1. The water supply augmentation measures that align with each shortage level are described in Table 8.2.This table also estimates the extent to which that action will augment supplies to reduce the gap between supplies and demands.The demand reduction action measures that align with each shortage level and how each measure will reduce the shortage gap between expected supplies and the shortage level is summarized in Table 8.3. The purpose of Tables 8.2 and 8.3 is to demonstrate the results the City can expect once shortage level actions are implemented to deliver the expected outcomes necessary to meet the requirements of a given shortage level. CITY OF SANTA ANA