HomeMy WebLinkAbout99-58 - Groundwater Replenishment System• RESOLUTION NO. 99- 58
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, SUPPORTING THE
GROUNDWATER REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM, A JOINT
EFFORT OF THE ORANGE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT AND
THE ORANGE COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT
WHEREAS, within the next 20 years, Orange County will have a water shortage
of 150,000 acre -feet, the amount of water needed for 300,000 families; and
WHEREAS, the northern portion of the county obtains 75 percent of its drinking
water from the county's vast groundwater basin, and the other 25 percent from imported sources,
such as the Colorado River and northern California; and
WHEREAS, current and future water policy threaten to limit the availability of
future imported water; and
WHEREAS, the Orange County Water District (OCWD) and the Orange County
Sanitation District (OCSD) have found a cost - effective solution to predicted future water
shortages and are sponsoring a proposed supplemental water purification project, known as the
Groundwater Replenishment System, that could each year provide up to 200,000 north - central
• Orange County families with a new source of safe, reliable, high quality water; and
WHEREAS, the Groundwater Replenishment System would take highly treated
wastewater from the Orange County Sanitation District that is currently sent to the ocean, purify
it to near distilled water quality through 100 percent reverse osmosis, microfiltration and
ultraviolet disinfection technologies, and then use it for a seawater intrusion barrier and to
percolate it through the ground into the Orange County groundwater basin; and
WHEREAS, Groundwater Replenishment System water would be of such high -
quality that it will improve the quality of the County's overall drinking water supply by reducing
the salinity of aquifers; and
WHEREAS, to produce water from the Groundwater Replenishment System, it
will take one -half the energy currently required to bring imported water to Orange County,
making it much more environmentally friendly and energy efficient; and
WHEREAS, Groundwater Replenishment System water can be used for multiple
purposes including household, landscaping, industrial and for prevention of sea water intrusion;
and
WHEREAS, Groundwater Replenishment System water will be available
• regardless of rainfall levels or drought conditions; and
• WHEREAS, The Orange County Water District and Orange County Sanitation
District are recognized as innovative leaders in water reuse.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Newport Beach does hereby support the Groundwater Replenishment System and the efforts of
the Orange County Water District and Orange County Sanitation District to identify and develop
alternative sources for safe, reliable water supplies for Orange County.
DATED this 23`d day of August 1999.
MAYOR
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• STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } as.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LEILANI I. BROWN, Deputy City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California,
do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 99 -58, was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the
City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 23rd
day of August, 1999, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Adams, Debay, Noyes, Mayor O'Neil
Noes: Glover, Thomson
Absent: Ridgeway
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
• official seal of said City this 24th day of August, 1999. L
Deputy City Clerk
Newport Beach, California
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