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BIGHORN-DESERT VIEW WATER AGENCY Our Mission - “To provide a high quality supply of water and reliable service to all

customers at a fair and reasonable rate.” Planning/Legislative/Engineering Grant & Security Standing

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BOARD MEETING OFFICE April 21, 2020 1720 N. CHEROKEE TR. Time – 9:15 A.M. LANDERS, CALIFORNIA 92285

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1. CALL TO ORDER

2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

3. ROLL CALL

4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

Discussion and Action Items - The Committee will discuss the following items, and the Committee will consider taking action, if so inclined. The Public is invited to comment on any item on the agenda during discussion of that item. When giving your public comment, please have your information prepared. If you wish to be identified for the record, then please state your name. Due to time constraints, each member of the public will be allotted three minutes to provide their public comment.

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5. Status of Reservoir B1 and B2 Recoating Project

6. Community Water Systems Alliance Update

7. Prop. 1 / Round 1 Grant Application Update

8. Prop. 1 Planning Grant Project Update

9. Disadvantaged Community Involvement Grant Update (DACI) Update

10. Conference Call with Mojave Water Agency’s Legal/Legislative and Public InformationCommitteeCommittee to participate via teleconference for an update by the State Advocate of Issues atthe State Level, as well as an update by the Federal Advocate of Issues at the Federal Level.

11. Consent Items – The following items are expected to be routine and non-controversial andwill be acted on by the Committee at one time without discussion, unless a member of thePublic or member of the Committee requests that the item be held for discussion or furtheraction.

a. PLEGS Committee Meeting Minutes, February 18, 2020

Recommended Action: Approve as presented (Item a):

12. Public Comment PeriodAny person may address the Committee on any matter within the Agency’s jurisdiction on itemsnot appearing on this agenda. When giving your public comment, please have your informationprepared. If you wish to be identified for the record, then please state your name. Due to timeconstraints, each member of the public will be allotted three minutes to provide their publiccomment. State Law prohibits the Committee from discussing or taking action on items notincluded on the agenda.

13. Verbal Reports - Including Reports on Courses/Conferences/Meetings1. Committee Members’ Comments/Reports2. General Manager’s Report

14. AdjournmentIn accordance with the requirements of California Government Code Section 54954.2, thisagenda has been posted in the main lobby of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency, 622 S.Jemez Trail, Yucca Valley, CA not less than 72 hours if prior to a Regular meeting, date and time

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above; or in accordance with California Government Code Section 54956 this agenda has been posted not less than 24 hours if prior to a Special meeting, date and time above.

As a general rule, agenda reports or other written documentation have been prepared or organized with respect to each item of business listed on the agenda.

Copies of these materials and other disclosable public records in connection with an open session agenda item, are also on file with and available for inspection at the Office of the Agency Secretary, 622 S. Jemez Trail, Yucca Valley, California, during regular business hours, 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. If such writings are distributed to members of the Board of Directors on the day of a Board meeting, the writings will be available at the entrance to the Board of Directors meeting room at the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency.

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Item #5

Reservoir B1 and B2 Re-Coating Project Update No Back-Up Materials

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Item #6

Community Water Systems Alliance Update Back-Up Materials

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Small Water Suppliers and Rural Communities at Risk of Drought and Water Shortage Vulnerability

and Recommendations and Guidance to Address the

Planning Needs of these Communities

REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 10609.42 OF THE CALIFORNIA WATER CODE

Draft MARCH 2020

California Department of Water Resources Water Use Efficiency Branch

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State of California Gavin Newsom, Governor

California Natural Resources Agency Wade Crowfoot, Secretary for Natural Resources

Thomas Gibson, Undersecretary Lisa Lien-Mager, Deputy Secretary for Communications

Department of Water Resources Karla Nemeth, Director

Cindy Messer, Chief Deputy Director Michelle Banonis, Assistant Chief Deputy Director

Deputy Directors

Deputy

Directors

Business Operations Kathie Kishaba

Delta Conveyance Vacant

Flood Management and Dam Safety Gary Lippner

Integrated Watershed Management

Kristopher A. Tjernell

Statewide Emergency Management Program Michael Day

Statewide Groundwater Management

Taryn Ravazzini State Water Project

Ted Craddock (Acting)

Office Executives

Office of the Chief Counsel

Spencer Kenner

Government and Community Liaison Anecita Agustinez

Internal Audit Office David Whitsell

Legislative Affairs Office Kasey Schimke,

Assistant Director

Public Affairs Office Erin Mellon,

Assistant Director

Office of Workforce Equality Stephanie Varrelman

Division of Regional Assistance Office of the Chief Arthur Hinojosa

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County Drought Advisory Group Project Team

Department of Water Resources

Water Use Efficiency Fethi Benjemaa Nirmala Benin James Campagna

Climate Change Program Julia Ekstrom

California Water Plan Jose Alarcon

State Water Resources Control Board

Division of Drinking Water Betsy Lichti Michelle Frederick Joseph Crisologo

Office of Research, Planning and Performance

Kathy Frevert

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

Air and Climate Epidemiology Branch

Carolina Balazs

County Drought Advisory Group Members

Calaveras County Water District Joel Metzger, Peter Martin

California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions

Michael McGill, Pamela Miller, Christina Crawford

California Association of Mutual Water Companies

Adan Ortega, Dave Michalko

California Municipal Utilities Association

Danielle Blacet, Jonathan Young

California Rural Water Association Dustin Hardwick, Tom Keegan

California State Association of Counties

Bruce Gibson, Nick Cronenwett, Cara Martinson

California Water Association Jack Hawks

California Water Institute at Fresno State

Thomas C. Esqueda

Community Water Center Jonathan Nelson, Patricia Avila

County of Napa Christopher M. Silke

County of San Luis Obispo Courtney Howard, Mladen Bandov

EKI Environment & Water Inc. Jacques DeBra

El Dorado County Water Agency Kenneth V. Payne, Kyle Ericson

Environmental Justice Coalition for Water

Colin Bailey, Karen McBride

Indian Health Services Chris Brady, Jonathan Rash

La Posta Tribe James “Potts” Hill

Lake County Jan Coppinger

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County Drought Advisory Group Members (continued)

Local Government Commission Danielle Dolan, Atley Keller, Emily Finnegan

Mojave Water Agency Nicholas Schneider, Lance Eckhart

Office of John S. Mills John S. Mills

Pacific Institute Laura Feinstein, Cora Kammeyer

Pechanga Tribal Government Eagle Jones

Rural Community Assistance Corp Ari Neumann, Rachel Smith

Rural County Reps of California Mary-Ann Warmerdam

San Bernardino Valley Water District Timothy Kellett, Ron Merckling

Santa Clara Valley Water District Jerry De la Piedra Vanessa De la Piedra

Self-Help Enterprises Jessi Snyder, Tami McVay

Stanford University Newsha Ajami

Tulare County Resource Management Agency

Ross W. Miller

Tule River Indian Tribe of California Joe Boy, David Perez

Watershed Progressive Regina Hirsch, Sean Hembree

Wheeler Institute (UC Berkeley School of Law)

Nell Green Nylen

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Contents Executive Summary page 1 1.0 Introduction page 9

1.1 Purpose page 9 1.2 Background page 10 1.3 Agency and Stakeholders Roles page 11 1.4 Drought Planning Approach: Phase Model of Disaster

Risk Management page 13 2.0 Vulnerable Small Suppliers and Rural Communities: Scoring of Drought and Water Shortage Risk page 15

2.1 Small Water Suppliers – Risk Assessment page 16 2.2 Water Shortage Risk Indicators: Exposure, Vulnerability, and

Observed Shortages page 17 2.3 Relative Risk Findings page 21 2.4 Rural Communities (referred to here as “self-supplied

communities”) – Risk Assessment page 23 2.5 Water Shortage Risk Indicators: Exposure, Vulnerability,

Observed Shortages, and Domestic Well Reliance page 24 2.6 Tribal Water Systems – Risk Assessment page 31

3.0 Recommendations and Guidance: Drought and Water Shortage Contingency Planning page 33

3.1 Small Water Supplier Recommendations page 35 3.2 Self-Supplied Communities Recommendations page 40 3.3 Tribal Systems Recommendations page 44 3.4 General Recommendations (Cross-Cutting) page 45

4.0 Topics for Further Discussion page 49 4.1 Support Regional Scale Planning page 49 4.2 Encourage Policies that Prioritize Sustainable Drinking Water for

Rural and Small Water Systems page 49 4.3 Integrate Drought Risk and Resiliency into Hazard Mapping

Tools page 50 4.4 Funding and Financing for Contingency Planning page 50

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5.0 Glossary page 51 5.1 Key Definitions page 51 5.2 Key Concepts page 53

6.0 References page 55

List of Appendices Appendix 1 Literature Review Appendix 2 Drought and Water Shortage Risk Scoring – California’s Small

Water Supplier and Self-Supplied Communities Appendix 3 Small Water System Draft Water Shortage Risk Results Appendix 4 Rural Community Draft Water Shortage Risk Results Appendix 5 Proposed Draft Water Shortage Contingency Plan Components

for Small Water System Appendix 6 Proposed Draft Umbrella Water Shortage Contingency Plan

Components Appendix 7 IHS Template for a Drought Contingency Plan for a Tribal

Public Water system Appendix 8 General Funding and Financing Issues

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Figures

Figure 1 Disaster Risk Management Framework page 14

Figure 2 Small water suppliers in the top 10% of draft drought and water shortage vulnerability risk scores page 21

Figure 3 Self-supplied communities examined and those noted in red that are in the top 10% of draft drought and water shortage vulnerability risk scores page 30

Figure 4 State Water Board DDW key recommendations to Water Suppliers during the 2012–2016 Drought page 34

Tables

Table 1 Summary of Recommendations for Small Water Suppliers page 6

Table 2 Summary of Recommendations for Self-supplied Communities page 7

Table 3 Summary of Recommendations for Tribes page 7

Table 4 Summary of General Recommendations page 7

Table 5 Risk indicators Used to Analyze Drought and Water Shortage Risk for Small Water Suppliers page 17

Table 6 Risk indicators Used to Analyze Drought and Water Shortage Risk for Self-Supplied Communities page 24

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Abbreviations and Acronyms

AB Assembly Bill

AWWA American Water Works Association

CAL OES California Office of Emergency Services

CDAG County Drought Advisory Group

CDFA California Department of Food and Agriculture

CEC California Energy Commission

CPUC California Public Utilities Commission

CWC California Water Code

DDW State Water Resources Control Board Division of Drinking Water

DWR California Department of Water Resources

GSA groundwater sustainability agencies

HSC California Health and Safety Code

IHS Indian Health Services

LHMP local hazard mitigation plan

OEHHA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

OPR Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

SADWF Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund

SB Senate Bill

State Water Board State Water Resources Control Board

WSCP water storage contingency plan

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Executive Summary This report is submitted pursuant to CWC Section 10609.42 which directs DWR to identify small water suppliers and rural communities that may be at risk of drought and water shortage vulnerability and propose recommendations and information in support of improving the drought preparedness of small water suppliers and rural communities.

Specifically, Section 10609.42 requires:

1. DWR, in consultation with the State Water Resources ControlBoard (State Water Board) and other relevant State and localagencies and stakeholders, identify small water suppliersand areas of households on private supplies (termed “ruralcommunities” in the legislation, and also called “self-suppliedcommunities in this report”) that may be at risk of droughtand water shortage. DWR must then notify counties andgroundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) of suppliers orcommunities that may be at risk within its jurisdiction and maymake the information publicly accessible on the website (CWCSection 10609.42[a]).

2. DWR, in consultation with the State Water Board andstakeholders, develop recommendations and guidance relatingto the development and implementation of countywidedrought and water shortage contingency plans to addressthe planning needs of small water suppliers and ruralcommunities. The legislation directs DWR to explain how theplanning needs of small water suppliers and ruralcommunities can be integrated into complementary existingplanning processes (CWC Section 10609.42[b]).

To assess drought and water shortage vulnerability, a methodology for analyzing risk was developed and small water suppliers and self-supplied communities statewide were evaluated for their relative risk of drought and water shortage. Each supplier and community examined received a numeric risk score, which is derived from a set of indicators developed from a stakeholder process. Indicators used to estimate risk represented three key components: (1) the exposure of suppliers and

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communities to hazardous conditions and events, (2) the physical and social vulnerability of suppliers and communities to the exposure, and (3) recent history of shortage and drought impacts. The risk scores for individual small water suppliers and self-supplied communities were calculated separately, using the same methodology but different risk indicators.

Importantly, the methodology used for analyzing risk, and this report as well, do not define thresholds whereby certain small water suppliers and self-supplied communities are considered “at risk” of drought and water shortage and others are not. Instead, the methodology inherently recognizes that all communities in California face some risk of drought and water shortage and thus provides a tool to calculate the relative risk of these suppliers and communities. Future thresholds may be defined and utilized to determine which suppliers and communities are particularly at risk of drought and water shortage; but for now, DWR believes the State is best served by understanding the relative risk of its small water suppliers and self-supplied communities and, perhaps more importantly, having a common methodology for calculating risk that can be applied at different levels of government and in different contexts.

In total, 4,100 small water suppliers were examined for their relative risk of drought and water shortage. The results show that a vast majority of the State’s counties (52 of the 58 counties) have small water suppliers in the top 10th percentile of risk scores based on the risk scoring method described above. As intimated above, the 10% cut-off is not intended to be viewed as a threshold whereby small water suppliers scoring in the top 10% are considered at risk of drought and water shortage and those outside the top 10% are not at risk. Instead, the 10% cut off is useful for summarizing results and providing an example of how the scoring methodology can be used. The primary benefit of this scoring exercise is to offer local and regionally-specific information to assist with drought and water shortage planning. Below, are some statistics among those scoring in the top 10% risk that offer a snapshot of patterns notable statewide:

• 68% are in a fractured rock area, and many of these high-risksuppliers on fractured rock rely on groundwater

• Over half of the high-risk suppliers located in groundwater basins arein high subsidence areas and/or basins identified by DWR in Bulletin118 as subject to critical conditions of overdraft.

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• Over half (58%, 241) of the top at-risk suppliers are in high or veryhigh-risk zone for wildfire, as defined by CalFire.

• To evaluate rural community risk (referred to as self-suppliedcommunity risk), 5000 Census Block Groups (the geographical unitused by the United States Census Bureau, typically between 600 and3,000 people) with record of a domestic well (1970-2019) wereexamined. The results of the evaluation show that 50 of the 58counties contain one or more Block Groups that scored within the top10% at risk. Counties with the highest number of Block Groups withinthe top 10% include:

o Riverside County (60 Block Groups)o Kern County (55 Block Groups)o San Diego County (33 Block Groups)o Tuolumne County (30 Block Groups)o San Luis Obispo County (24 Block Groups)o Stanislaus County (24 Block Groups)o Lake County (15 Block Groups)o Madera County (14 Block Groups)o Monterey County (14 Block Groups)o Siskiyou County (13 Block Groups)

To develop recommendations and guidance on drought planning for small water systems and self-supplied communities, DWR utilized a public process involving State agencies, cities, counties, small communities, small water suppliers and other stakeholders by forming a stakeholder advisory group, the County Drought Advisory Group (CDAG). The CDAG had many discussions on the best way to improve preparation of small communities for the next drought. It offered a venue and process for close collaboration between State agencies and local agencies, as well as input from other key stakeholders.

Throughout the stakeholder process the four-phase model of disaster risk management helped to frame the drought and water shortage planning approach: (1) Mitigation, Preparation, and Capacity Building; (2) Forecasting and Monitoring; (3) Drought and Water Shortage Response; and (4) Recovery and Relief (Wilhite 2000 & 2014).

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State agencies and stakeholders alike agreed that additional planning requirements for the suppliers and communities for drought preparedness and long-term resiliency should leverage and extend existing processes when possible. The recurring theme in the recommendations in this report is to incorporate water shortage contingency plans into existing planning documents for small water suppliers serving 1,000 to 3,000 service connections and emergency response plans for all small water suppliers. Leveraging existing DWR processes to develop and implement water shortage contingency planning and State Water Board processes to develop and implement emergency response planning will help minimize costs to both local and State agencies.

Rural communities with water systems serving fewer than 15 service connections and self-supplied households are likely to be unable to perform meaningful water shortage planning themselves, so integrating planning within existing County plans is more feasible. Counties use a variety of tools to plan for and mitigate against future disasters and hazards; including local hazard mitigation plans, general plan elements, emergency operations plans, climate adaptation plans, Groundwater Sustainability Plans, and others. Providing counties the flexibility to use one or more of these plans is intended to leverage existing processes and organizational capacities in efforts to improve preparation for future droughts.

Regional planning solutions that transcend county boundaries were discussed towards the end of the CDAG stakeholder process. Further discussion is necessary to advance a holistic and regional approach for drought and water shortage planning solutions that include urban water suppliers, small water suppliers and self-supplied communities.

Because Tribes are sovereign governments with data and regulatory systems that are not structured within the State or Counties, their planning systems will be different. This report proposes that Indian Health Services continues to promote the water shortage contingency plan they developed during the last drought.

Technical assistance for helping approximately 250 small community water systems, serving 1,000 to 2,999 service connections, develop water shortage contingency plans would cost approximately $1 to $2 million. Additional funding would be needed to help small community water

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systems serving less than 1,000 service connections and noncommunity water systems that are schools for technical assistance to develop their emergency response plans and comply with minimum resiliency requirements.

The recommendations in this report, as shown in Tables 1 – 4 below, should be considered in the context of other statewide efforts around water including water resiliency, water conservation, safe and affordable drinking water, Human Right to Water, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, and biodiversity.

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Table 1 Summary of Recommendations for Small Water Suppliers S1. All small community water systems serving 15 to 2,999 service connections and noncommunity water system that are schools, should be required to develop an Emergency Response Plan and a drought supply evaluation to submit to the State Water Board. S2. State Water Board should work with small community water systems serving less than 1,000 service connections and noncommunity water systems that are schools to establish minimum resiliency measures. S3. All small community water systems serving 1,000 to 2,999 service connections should be required to develop a drought and water shortage contingency plan and coordinate with groundwater sustainability agencies where applicable. S4. The State should provide technical assistance to small water systems on drought and water shortage planning, preparation and response. S5. In developing a water shortage contingency plan, small water systems should use the proposed annual statewide drought and water shortage risk assessment prepared by the State, unless justifiably better data is available to improve drought and water shortage resiliency. S6. All water suppliers should be required to provide and maintain accurate water service area boundaries on a designated site to be maintained by the State Water Board. S7. The State should make funding available to small community water systems and noncommunity water system that are schools to install additional infrastructure to improve drought and water shortage preparedness and response (e.g., backup well, water meters).

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Table 2 Summary of Recommendations for Self-supplied Communities R1. Counties should complete drought and water shortage contingency plans for self-supplied communities, specify drought as a risk in their LHMPs, and have Emergency Operations Plans covering the entire county that include planned response to drought and water shortage conditions. R2. The County or State should provide technical assistance to self-supplied households to improve reliability of their water supply. R3. Update statutory requirements and guidelines for General Plans to ensure that drought resilience and water shortage contingency policies or implementation programs are incorporated into the safety element, conservation element, or other appropriate elements. R4. Counties and regional planning agencies should use the proposed annual statewide drought and water shortage risk assessment prepared by the State to prioritize needs for drought and water shortage contingency planning. R5. The State should improve its understanding of domestic well locations and well depths.

Table 3 Summary of Recommendations for Tribes T1. Tribes are encouraged to develop drought and water shortage contingency plans and formally adopt them through a resolution of the Tribal Council or other Tribal authority with jurisdiction. T2. The State should coordinate with Indian Health Services when preparing the proposed annual statewide drought and water shortage risk assessment to also include tribal water systems.

Table 4 Summary of General Recommendations G1. The State should conduct an annual statewide drought and water shortage risk assessment and generate risk scores for each small water system, noncommunity water system that is a school, and self-supplied community using best available statewide information. G2. Drought and water shortage contingency planning and response should be incorporated into implementation of the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund. G3. Establish a standing interagency drought and water shortage task force to facilitate proactive State planning and coordination, both for pre-drought planning and post-drought emergency response composed of Department of Water Resources, State Water Board, California Public Utilities Commission, California Office of Emergency Services and Governor’s Office of Planning and Research.

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CA Drought Advisory Group Score Board Results

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System Name

Pwsid

Avg.

Missing

Data

Risk Score

(Percentile

Rank)

Risk Indicators

Climate Change - Change in Temperature (SC1a)

Sea Level Rise (SC1b)

Climate Change - Wildfire (SC1c)

Current Wildfire Risk (SC2a)

Drought Warning WY2019 (SC2b)

Fractured Rock Area (SC2c)

Population Growth Rate (SC2h)

Water Quality in Surrounding Basin (SC2i)

Groundwater Basin Vulnerability (SC2R)

Interties (SC3a)

Emergency Interties (SC3b)

Reported monitoring (SC3c)

Customers Metered (SC3d)

# Water Supply Source (SC3e)

# Source Types (SC3f)

Supplier Size (SC3g)

Distribution Outage Record (SC3i)

Water Level Status (SC3j)

Rate Updated (SC4a)

Rate Type (SC4b)

Drought Prep Plan (SC4d)

Customer Base Socio-Economics (SC4e)

Shortage: Self-Reported (SC3h)

Shortage: Drought Assistance Record (SC3L)

FOREST PARK MWC

CA3600107

25%

100

NORTH SHORE MWC

CA3600184

50%

100

DOGWOOD BLUE JAY CYN IMP

CA3600094

42%

99

GOLDEN STATE WATER CO - WRIGHTWOOD

CA3610047

8%97

CSA 70-F MORONGO

CA3600226

17%

96

STRAWBERRY LODGE MWC

CA3600301

25%

95

SNOWCREST HEIGHTS IMP ASSOC

CA3600262

25%

93

HILLCREST MOBILE ESTATES

CA3600391

50%

93

GLEN MARTIN MWC

CA3610016

25%

91

GLEN HELEN WATER SYSTEM

CA3600108

50%

91

SAN ANTONIO WATER COMPANY

CA3610085

8%91

SMILEY PARK COUNTRY CLUB

CA3600260

25%

91

SBDNO COUNTY SERVICE AREA 70 CEDAR GLE

CA3610026

8%91

GOLDEN STATE WATER CO - MORONGO DEL SU

CA3610063

8%87

CAMP WATERMAN MWC

CA3600064

17%

87

BIG PINE TRACT

CA3600031

25%

87

MOSS MOBILE MANOR

CA3600397

42%

86

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTION FOR MEN

CA3610850

17%

86

MILL CREEK MSC

CA3600166

25%

86

TERRACE WATER COMPANY

CA3610048

25%

85

FALLSVALE SERVICE COMPANY

CA3610021

25%

83

SAN ANTONIO CANYON MSC

CA3610082

17%

83

FREEDOM ACRES THE RESORT

CA3600308

42%

83

UPPER LITTLE BEAR MOUNTAIN CLUB

CA3600446

25%

82

USMC NEBO (BARSTOW)

CA3610701

58%

81

HELENDALE COMMUNITY SERVICE DISTRICT

CA3610112

33%

80

GOLDEN STATE WATER CO - APPLE VLY SOUT

CA3610107

8%80

DAGGETT COMM SVCS DIST

CA3600086

17%

80

CSA 70 W-4 PIONEERTOWN

CA3600196

33%

79

CHAMISAL MWC

CA3600071

17%

79

APPLE VALLEY VILLAGE MHE

CA3600400

50%

77

CLAWA

CA3610114

17%

76

OLIVE DELL RANCH

CA3600187

50%

76

MT BALDY HOMEOWNERS ASSN.

CA3610033

17%

74

LYTLE SPRINGS WC

CA3600158

17%

65

CSA 70 W-3 HACIENDA

CA3600114

17%

61MUSCOY MWC NO. 1

CA3610031

8%56

0.000

1.000

Indicator Scoreboard S..

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System Name

Pwsid

Avg.

Missing

Data

Risk Score

(Percentile

Rank)

Risk Indicators










Interties (SC3a)









Rate Updated (SC4a)

Rate Type (SC4b)





CSA 70 W-3 HACIENDA

CA3600114

17%

61

MUSCOY MWC NO. 1

CA3610031

8%56

DEER LODGE WATER SYSTEM

CA3600087

17%

55

SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY WD

CA3610019

17%

53

RIVER RANCH MHP

CA3600155

25%

51

PARADISE MOBILE ESTATES

CA3600399

25%

51

DESERT DAWN MWC

CA3600088

25%

51

RANCHO PINO VERDE

CA3601085

42%

50

GOLDEN STATE WATER DESERT VIEW

CA3600279

17%

50

APPLE VALLEY FOOTHILL CWD

CA3600008

25%

49

LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY

CA3600152

50%

49

ARROWBEAR PARK CWD

CA3610110

17%

47

CDF - PILOT ROCK CONSERVATION CAMP

CA3610801

58%

43

SHEEP CREEK WATER COMPANY

CA3610109

25%

39

JUNIPER RIVIERA CWD

CA3600222

17%

38

MARIANA RANCHOS CWD

CA3610030

17%

37

DESERT VIEW MOBILE PARK

CA3600388

50%

37

APPLE VALLEY HEIGHTS CWD

CA3600009

17%

37

VALLEY VIEW PARK MWC

CA3610046

17%

36

DESERT SPRINGS MWC

CA3600089

33%

36

ROCKY COMFORT MUTUAL WATER CO

CA3600209

42%

35

LUCERNE VISTA MWC

CA3600157

25%

35

USMC - 29 PALMS

CA3610703

58%

34

RUNNING SPRINGS WATER DISTRICT

CA3610062

0%33

GOLDEN STATE WATER CO - LUCERNE

CA3610108

25%

33

OAK GLEN DOMESTIC WATER

CA3600185

25%

33

DEVORE WC

CA3610117

17%

32

BEAR VALLEY MHP

CA3601045

25%

32

VALLEY OF ENCHANTMENT MWC

CA3610051

8%31

ARROWHEAD VILLAS MUTUAL SERVICE COMPANCA3610093

8%29

GILBERT STREET COMPLEX

CA3600215

50%

28

GREEN VALLEY MWC

CA3610023

0%28

SKY FOREST MWC

CA3600258

25%

27

HIGH DESERT DETENTION CENTER

CA3601182

50%

27

GORDON ACRES WATER CO

CA3600297

33%

26

NEEDLES, CITY OF

CA3610032

33%

26

ALPINE WATER USERS ASSOCIATION

CA3610002

8%26

KNOLL ENTERPRISES

CA3600504

58%

26

0.000

1.000


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System Name

Pwsid

Avg.

Missing

Data

Risk Score

(Percentile

Rank)

Risk Indicators










Interties (SC3a)









Rate Updated (SC4a)

Rate Type (SC4b)





ALPINE WATER USERS ASSOCIATION

CA3610002

8%26

KNOLL ENTERPRISES

CA3600504

58%

26

LUCERNE VALLEY MWC

CA3600156

25%

26

WEST END MWC

CA3600345

17%

26

MWD OF SO CAL GENE PLANT

CA3600383

42%

24

GOLDEN STATE WATER CO - APPLE VLY NORT

CA3610105

17%

24

CALICO LAKE HOMEOWNERS

CA3601036

25%

24

CSA 42 ORO GRANDE

CA3600220

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CA3600785

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CA3600172

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CA3600180

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CA3600385

50%

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CA3600070

17%

21

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CA3600139

25%

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LIBERTY UTILITIES APPLE VALLEY

CA3600010

25%

21

RANCHERITOS MWC

CA3600200

17%

20

PALMS RIVER RESORT

CA3600372

33%

19

IRONWOOD CAMP

CA3601015

58%

18

CA3610009

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CA3600025

42%

17

THUNDERBIRD CWD

CA3600306

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16

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CA3600012

42%

15

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CA3610045

25%

15

BAR "H" MWC

CA3600027

25%

14

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN

CA3610851

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12

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CA3610118

33%

12

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CA3600022

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11

GOLDEN STATE WATER MORONGO DELNORTE

CA3600270

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10

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CA3610017

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10

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CA3610011

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CA3600382

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6

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CA3610854

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6

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CA3610800

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5

CA3610060

17%

3

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CA3600123

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CA3610028

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CA3610028

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CA3610053

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1

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AB 2182 (Rubio) Emergency Back-Up Generators

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california legislature—2019–20 regular session

ASSEMBLY BILL No. 2182

Introduced by Assembly Member Blanca Rubio

February 11, 2020

An act to add Article 9.4 (commencing with Section 42005) to Chapter 3 of Part 4 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to nonvehicular air pollution.

legislative counsel’s digest

AB 2182, as introduced, Blanca Rubio. Emergency backup generators: water and wastewater facilities: exemption.

Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates air pollution control and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to identify toxic air contaminants that are emitted into the ambient air of the state and to establish airborne toxic control measures to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants from nonvehicular sources.

This bill would exempt the operation of an alternative power source, as defined, to provide power to a critical facility, as defined, from any local, regional, or state regulation regarding the operation of that source. The bill would authorize providers of essential public services, in lieu of compliance with applicable legal requirements, to comply with the maintenance and testing procedure set forth in the National Fire Protection Association Standard for Emergency and Standby Power System, NFPA 110, for alternative power sources designated by the providers for the support of critical facilities.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.

State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

line 1 SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the line 2 following: line 3 (a) Due to climate change, California’s risk for catastrophic line 4 wildfires has increased substantially and California’s wildfire line 5 season is now longer and more intense. line 6 (b) Catastrophic wildfires have had and continue to have an line 7 enormous impact on California, taking and threatening life, line 8 property, and our environment, and costing the state billions of line 9 dollars.

line 10 (c) Public safety power shutoffs and deenergization events, line 11 while necessary to protect California from catastrophic wildfires, line 12 impact essential public services, including firefighting, police, and line 13 water services, which are necessary to respond to a wildfire. line 14 (d) Given the importance of essential public services in line 15 responding to wildfire, it is crucial to ensure the essential public line 16 service provider has access to alternative power sources during line 17 public safety power shutoffs and other deenergization events to line 18 maintain California’s ability to respond to wildfire. line 19 SEC. 2. Article 9.4 (commencing with Section 42005) is added line 20 to Chapter 3 of Part 4 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety line 21 Code, to read: line 22 line 23 Article 9.4. Standby Electric Generation line 24 line 25 42005. For purposes of this article, the following terms apply: line 26 (a) “Alternative power source” means equipment that is used line 27 by an essential public service provider to produce electricity to line 28 directly run a critical facility during a deenergization event. line 29 (b) “Critical facility” means a facility necessary or convenient line 30 in providing essential public services, including, but not limited line 31 to, facilities such as police stations, fire stations, emergency line 32 operations centers, water and wastewater treatment facilities, line 33 incident command posts, and communication systems used to line 34 support essential public services.

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line 1 (c) “Deenergization event” means the loss of electricity to a line 2 critical facility due to an emergency, including, but not limited to, line 3 wildfire. line 4 (d) “Essential public service” means fire prevention, protection, line 5 and response, law enforcement, provision of water and wastewater line 6 service, disaster medical response, and other emergency response line 7 services. line 8 (e) “Water and wastewater facilities” mean water and wastewater line 9 facilities critical to maintain public health and safety standards,

line 10 including, but not limited to, treatment plants, pumping stations line 11 and other storage facilities, and water facilities needed to maintain line 12 water service and water pressure necessary for firefighting. line 13 42007. (a) Notwithstanding other law, the use of an alternative line 14 power source by a provider of essential services to operate a critical line 15 facility during a deenergization event shall not be subject to any line 16 local, regional, or state regulation regarding the operation of an line 17 alternative power source. line 18 (b) Notwithstanding other law, in lieu of compliance with any line 19 applicable legal requirements, a provider of essential public service line 20 may comply with the maintenance and testing procedure set forth line 21 in the National Fire Protection Association Standard for Emergency line 22 and Standby Power Systems, NFPA 110, or any successor standard line 23 adopted by the association, for an alternative power source line 24 designated by the provider for the support of a critical facility line 25 during a deenergization event.

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Item # 7

Prop. 1/Round 1 Grant Application Update - Back-up Materials

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Item # 8Prop. 1 Planning Grant Update -

No Back-up Materials

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Item # 9Disadvantaged Community Involvement

Grant (DACI) Update - No Back-up Materials

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Consent Items

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BIGHORN-DESERT VIEW WATER AGENCY Our Mission - “To provide a high quality supply of water and reliable service to all

customers at a fair and reasonable rate.” Planning/Legislative/Engineering Grant & Security Standing

Committee Meeting Agenda Committee Members: Vice President Burkhart & President Corl-Lorono

BOARD MEETING OFFICE February 18, 2020 1720 N. CHEROKEE TR. Time – 9:15 A.M. LANDERS, CALIFORNIA 92285

1. CALL TO ORDERVice President John Burkhart called the meeting to order at 9:15 A.M.

2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCELed by John Burkhart

3. ROLL CALLDirectors: Judy Corl-Lorono

John Burkhart

Staff: Marina West

No Public present.

4. APPROVAL OF AGENDAVice President John Burkhart and President Judy Corl-Lorono approved the agenda aspresented.

Discussion and Action Items - The Committee will discuss the following items, and the Committee will consider taking action, if so inclined. The Public is invited to comment on any item on the agenda during discussion of that item. When giving your public comment, please have your information prepared. If you wish to be identified for the record, then please state your name. Due to time constraints, each member of the public will be allotted three minutes to provide their public comment.

5. Conference Call with Mojave Water Agency’s Legal/Legislative and Public InformationCommitteeCommittee to participate via teleconference for an update by the State Advocate of Issues atthe State Level, as well as an update by the Federal Advocate of Issues at the Federal Level.

No Public comment.

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6. CA Water Systems Alliance Update GM West gave the report noting that the Steering Committee generally meets monthly to discuss emerging issues. She further reported on the upcoming Advocacy Workshop scheduled for February 20, 2020 and new legislation introduced by Herzberg Senate Bill 971. SB 971 would require the adoption of a Water Shortage Contingency Plan. It also establishes the Count Drought Task Force. This is a state mandated local program. By January 2020 the state was to produce a list of “at-risk” suppliers but the Agency had not yet received its “score”. The other bill discussed was AB2182 concerning exemptions for water districts from air quality standards for emergency equipment. No Public comment.

7. Prop. 1 / Round 1 Grant Application Update

Concerning the Prop. 1/Round 1 Planning Grant Application, the Agency has not yet heard the results of our competition for funding from the Colorado Region. GM West continued by discussing the progress of work on the Prop. 1 Planning Grant Project. Progress to date including the “kick-off” meeting with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), initiation of the CEQA/NEPA document processes, planning for biological, cultural and paleontological field surveys and finalization of alignments for the blending pipeline and the interconnections between Bighorn and Goat Mountain. With respect to BLM it was reported that if the Agency can use an existing Frontier Communications (aka Verizon) telecommunications easement across the Pipes Wash area (Winters Rd. /Tracy Blvd.) then the NEPA engagement might be limited to a Categorical Exclusion which decreases the processing time significantly. No Public comment.

8. Disadvantaged Community Involvement Grant Update (DACI) Update

GM West gave the report noting all field work has been completed and all water quality analysis have been received and transmitted to the consultant, BESST, Inc. Staff is awaiting the final report from the consultant. No Public comment.

9. Consent Items

a. PLEGS Committee Meeting Minutes, December 17, 2019

No Public comment.

Vice President Burkhart and President Corl-Lorono approved the minutes as presented.

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10. Public Comment Period

No Public comment. 11. Verbal Reports - Including Reports on Courses/Conferences/Meetings

General Manager West reported on her work to evaluate water consumption tiers for a future rate increase. This is in response to the increasing number of large agricultural operations within the Agency and the thought that such operations are non-community, profit based industries. Since the use is non-beneficial perhaps there should be tiers which cover the cost to import and recharge more water.

12. Adjournment - Vice President Burkhart adjourned the meeting at 11:11 am.

Approved by:

____________________________________ Vice President Burkhart, Committee Chair

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