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

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202S WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN MAY 2026/FINAL DRAFT/CAROLLO This WSCP is organized into three main sections, with Section 3 aligned with Water Code Section 16032 requirements: Section 1 Introduction and WSCP Overview gives an overview of the WSCP fundamentals. Section 2 Background Information provides a background on the City's water service area. Section 3 Water Shortage Contingency Preparedness and Response Planning. Section 3.1 Water Supply Reliability Analysis provides a summary of the water supply analysis and water reliability findings from the 2025 UWMP. Section 3.2 Annual Water Supply and Demand Assessment Procedures provides a description of procedures to conduct and approve the AWSDA. Section 3.3 Six Standard Water Shortage Stages explains the WSCP's six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10, 20, 30,40, 50, and more than 50 percent shortages. 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. 1.2 Integration with Other Planning Efforts As a retail water supplier in Orange County, the City considered other key entities in the development of this WSCP, including the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MET), regional wholesaler for Southern California and the direct supplier of imported water to the City; and Orange County Water CITY OF SANTA ANA