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P UBLI C M EETI NGS Pure Water Monterey Groundwater Replenishment Project AND D RAFT E NVI RONMENTAL I MPACT R EPORT May 20-21, 2015 Meeting Overview 1. Introductions 2. Summary of the Project 3. Draft EIR: Process and Contents 4. Next Steps

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May 20-21, 2015

PUBLI C MEETI NGS Pure Water Monterey

Groundwater Replenishment Project

AND

DRAFT ENVI RONMENTAL I MPACT REPORT

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Meeting Overview

  • 1. Introductions
  • 2. Summary of the Project
  • 3. Draft EIR: Process and Contents
  • 4. Next Steps
  • 5. Questions and Answers about the Project

Everyone is invited to comment and view posters following this presentation.

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Introductions

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Lead Agency: Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency (MRWPCA)

Keith Israel, General Manager Paul Sciuto, Deputy General Manager Bob Holden, P .E., Principal Engineer/Project Manager Mike McCullough, Recycled Water Program

Partner Agency: Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD)

Joe Oliver, Water Resources Manager Jon Lear, Senior Hydrogeologist

Agency Staff Present

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CEQA Team Members Present

Den enise se Duffy & Asso ssociat es es

  • Denise Duffy
  • Alison Imamura, AICP
  • Diana Buhler

Haz azen an and Saw aw yer

  • Valerie Young, AICP
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Summary of Proposed Project

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What is Pure Water Monterey?

Pure Water Monterey is a groundwater replenishment project that will provide a safe, environmentally sustainable and economically responsible water supply for years to come.

What is Groundwater Replenishment?

Groundwater Replenishment utilizes water that has been purified through a four-step Advanced Water Treatment process and then introduced into the groundwater where it mixes with native groundwater.

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Why Pure Water Monterey?

Pure Water Monterey is a:

  • multi-benefit,
  • multi-region,
  • multi-agency

project that will provide purified, high quality, drinking water for the Monterey Peninsula and additional irrigation water for the Salinas Valley.

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Sources of Water for Purification Treated Wastewater Produce Wash Water

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Sources of Water for Purification Storm Water Runoff:

  • Salinas
  • Monterey

Agricultural Drainage:

  • Blanco Drain
  • Reclamation Ditch
  • Tembladero Slough
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Key Source Water Sites

Blanco Drain Diversion Reclamation Ditch Diversion Salinas Pump Diversion Salinas Treatment Facility Storage and Recovery

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Regional Treatment Plant

Lake El Estero Diversion is located 6 miles southwest. Tembladero Slough Diversion is located 4 miles northeast.

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Treated Source Waters Ozone Treatment Membrane Filtration Reverse Osmosis UV Disinfection and Hydrogen Peroxide

How Does Purification Work?

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Monterey Bay

Existing Cal-Am/ Seaside Wells ASR (Carmel River Water)

Groundwater I njection Well Vadose Zone Well Rainfall

Groundwater Dune and Alluvial Deposits Paso Robles Aquifer Santa Margarita Aquifer Monterey Formation

Groundwater Replenishment Schematic

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Pure Water Monterey Safety

Advanced water purification technology is a proven approach to provide clean drinking water

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Environmentally Responsible

  • Reduces pollutant discharge into the Monterey

Bay National Marine Sanctuary

  • Uses less energy than desalination
  • Protects and improves the water quality in the

Seaside & Salinas Valley Groundwater Basins

  • Protects endangered species and habitat in

Carmel River

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Economically Responsible

Pure Water Monterey is locally owned and managed by a public agency partnership insuring transparency and a competitive cost overall per unit of water.

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Water Supply Diversification

Future Sources Traditional Sources

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Who Has Benefited From Advanced Water Treatment Technology?

  • Orange County, CA
  • Los Angeles County, CA
  • Santa Clara, CA
  • Scottsdale, AZ
  • El Paso, TX
  • Fairfax, VA
  • Cambria, CA (recently permitted)
  • International projects
  • And many others are working toward potable reuse
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California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and Draft EIR Process

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Overview/Purpose of CEQA

  • Requires review before discretionary

approvals

  • Includes process and content requirements
  • Understand environmental consequences

and identify mitigation measures

  • Inform decision-making; public disclosure
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Public Review Period (ends June 5, 2015) Lead Agency EI R Determination

Notice of Preparation and EI R Scoping

Draft EI R Completed Final EI R Completion EI R Certification/ Project Approval

December 2014 Today Late Summer 2015 Summer 2013

Supplemental Notice of Preparation

April 22, 2015 Fall 2015

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Public Review

  • f the Draft EIR

Notice of Availability of Draft EIR distributed on April 22 to:

  • Email list, including:
  • federal, state, local agencies,
  • non-governmental organizations (environmental,

community groups),

  • interested parties
  • Newspapers
  • State, regional, county clearinghouses
  • Posting at a variety of public places, incl. County Clerk

Copies on-line, at libraries, and MRWPCA/MPWMD offices

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EIR Purpose

  • Disclose the environmental effects
  • f a proposed project
  • Identify mitigation measures to

avoid, reduce, minimize significant environmental effects

  • Evaluate reasonable alternatives
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Key Chapters of Draft EIR

  • Chapter 2: Project Description
  • Chapter 3: Water Quality Compliance Overview
  • Chapter 4: Environmental Analyses

(includes Introduction and 17 topical sections)

  • Chapter 6: Alternatives to the Proposed Project
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Draft EIR Technical Work

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Draft EIR Appendices

Plus, Appendices E through Z with more detail on specific issues in the DEIR

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EIR Resource Sections (Chapter 4)

  • Environmental Setting
  • Regulatory Setting
  • Thresholds to establish how EIR determines

significance of impacts

  • Approach (assumptions /methods of analysis)
  • Impacts Analysis (construction, operational,

and cumulative)

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Types of Significance Determinations

  • Beneficial Effects
  • No Impact
  • Less than significant
  • Significant, but reduced to less than

significant with mitigation

  • Significant and unavoidable (with or

without mitigation)

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Temporary Construction Impacts

  • air quality
  • biology
  • cultural resources
  • energy
  • geology and soils
  • hazardous materials
  • hydrology/water

quality

  • land use/agricultural

resources

  • noise* and vibration
  • public services
  • traffic

* = significant and unavoidable

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Operational Impacts

  • Aesthetics (light and glare from safety lighting)
  • Biology (fish flows downstream of source water

diversion)

  • Biology (maintenance at source water

diversions)

  • Surface water quality (operation of source

water diversion pumps)

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Beneficial Impacts

  • Groundwater:
  • Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin Depletion,

Levels, and Quality

  • Seaside Groundwater Basin Water Quality
  • Marine water quality due to diversion and

treatment of impaired waters

  • Carmel River hydrology and biological

resources

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Alternatives Analysis Requirements

  • Describe and evaluate a reasonable range of

alternatives, that would:

  • lessen significant effects
  • meet most of the basic objectives
  • be potentially feasible
  • An EIR need not consider every conceivable

alternative

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Alternatives Evaluated

  • No Project Alternative
  • Reduced Scale Alternative
  • Alternative combinations of source waters
  • Alternative Designs and Locations by Project

Component (source water, treatment, conveyance, injection, distribution)

  • Discussion of environmentally superior

alternative(s) (as required by CEQA)

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Next Steps

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How to Comment

Submit comments on Draft EI R in writing no later than: 5:00 P.M. on June 5, 2015

Email: gwr@mrwpca.com Mail: MRWPCA

Attn: Bob Holden 5 Harris Court, Bldg. D Monterey, CA 93940

Comment Table is available tonight. Members of the public can provide their comments in writing or orally.

Fax: 831-372-6178

(also send hard copy by mail)

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Final EIR: Next Steps

  • All written comments will be responded to

during public review.

  • The Final EIR will contain:
  • Draft EIR, including appendices;
  • comments received during the public review period

and responses to those comments; and

  • relevant text changes to the Draft EIR.
  • The Final EIR will be scheduled for MRWPCA

Board certification.

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Public Review Period (ends June 5, 2015) Lead Agency EI R Determination

Notice of Preparation and EI R Scoping

Draft EI R Completed Final EI R Completion EI R Certification/ Project Approval

December 2014 Today Late Summer 2015 Summer 2013

Supplemental Notice of Preparation

April 22, 2015 Fall 2015

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For More Information

Project Website:

ht t p t t p:/ / pure rew at at erm erm ont ere erey.org rg

Complete Draft Environmental Impact Report is available on the website. In addition, the EIR Summary and CD copies are available tonight.

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Questions