Orange County Water District Annexation Issue Board of Directors - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Orange County Water District Annexation Issue

Board of Directors Meeting October 2, 2013

Areas of Requested Annexations 15,095 acres

LAFCO Sphere of Influence Line and Watershed Line Winter Storm Runoff

Annexations Areas

Approximate Size (Acres) Approximate Additional Total Water Demands (afy) YLWD 6,258 6,518 IRWD 6,482 6,130 (*) Anaheim 2,355 2,470 Totals 15,095 15,118 Current OCWD 229,000 440,000

(*) Demands are net of ~ 2,000 afy of water reclamation supplies served

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1986 Annexation Policy Summary

• Accommodate long-term producers
• Provide uniformity of cost and access
• Within Orange County SAR Watershed
• Within MWD service area
• Pay annexation charge

– Annexation applicant collects and pays approximately what would have been ad valorem property tax received by OCWD before Prop 13 (1978)

4 Policy Reaffirmed in 1999 and 2003

Recent Annexation Schedule

Fall 2009 Summer 2010 October 2, 2013

Annexation Request from Applicants MOU Executed with Applicants to consider Annexations (1) Current Policy Attached (2) Annexation Agreement terms included (1) Draft EIR prepared; ~$260,000 (2) Groundwater basin modeling of numerous scenarios completed to analyze pumping (3) Annexation agreements drafted Board Consider (1) EIR (2) annexation agreements and (3) resolution to LAFCO 5

Annexation Update

• May 9, 2013 letter from nine Producers requesting

consideration to modify the annexation policy

• June 12, 2013 Water Issues Committee – staff directed to

meet with Producers regarding this issue

• Six meetings occurred - New proposed annexation terms

have been developed

• Annexation agreements incorporate these new terms
• Letters attached from three applicants agreeing to the new

agreements

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New Annexation Terms

• Annexation applicants provide sewer flows to Orange

County Sanitation District – various terms

• YLWD and IRWD limit their BPP to 70% maximum for

future period of time

• Anaheim – no benefit from annexing for five years
• No new annexations for 10 years

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Environmental Evaluation

• Includes analysis of construction of 3 new wells by YLWD
• Anaheim and IRWD will use existing facilities

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Evaluation of Potential Impacts to Groundwater Basin

• Evaluated potential impacts at a range of basin storage

conditions (from 200,000 acre-feet to 500,000 acre-feet accumulated overdraft)

• Utilized basin computer model to conduct 14 different

model runs, evaluating a number of different conditions (for example, different BPPs, different amounts of assumed annexation pumping)

• Modeling results used for Draft EIR

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Example Uses of Model Results in EIR

• Evaluated potential groundwater impacts with respect to

changes in groundwater elevations

• Evaluated if changes in groundwater elevations could

impact groundwater quality

• In summary, model results indicate requested

annexations will not have a significant impact on the groundwater basin

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Preparation of EIR

• Prepared Draft EIR based on modeling analyses and

related environmental evaluations

• Draft EIR circulated for public comment on March 29, 2013
• 14 comment letters received
• Conducted 6 additional groundwater basin model runs (20

total) in response to comments

• 6 additional model runs and response to comments did not

provide significant new information

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Final EIR

• Concludes that after mitigation, there will be no significant

unavoidable adverse impacts if the OCWD Board of Directors approves the annexation applications of IRWD, YLWD and the City of Anaheim

• Mitigation measures required of YLWD for construction-

related issues of 3 new production wells

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Staff Recommendations

1. Certify Final Program/Project Environmental Impact Report for the Orange County Water District Annexation Request by the City of Anaheim, Irvine Ranch Water District, and Yorba Linda Water District. 2. Approving and authorizing execution of an annexation agreement with City of Anaheim. 3. Approving and authorizing execution of an annexation agreement with Irvine Ranch Water District. 4. Approving and authorizing execution of an annexation agreement with Yorba Linda Water District. 5. Authorizing filing of a CEQA notice of determination, and 6. Approve transmittal of resolution to LAFCO and directing staff to prepare the necessary documents and application to LAFCO to annex the requested areas into the District.

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End of Presentation

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