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Title:

Council Adopts Water Management Plan

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Date:

2006-01-06

Summary:

January 6, 2006 - Subtitle: "Water & Power Department to focus on security and production of local resources" Pasadena has adopted an updated water management plan that features improving the production of local resources to decrease the use of imported water.

Author:

Charles Cooper

Publication:

Pasadena Independent

Content:

The Pasadena Water and Power Department intends to work in the next five years to increase the security of the local water system and to improve the production of local resources to decrease the needs to purchase imported water through the Metropolitan Water District (MWD).

The Pasadena City Council recently voted to adopt the city’s urban water management program, a document filed every five years with the state.

PWP serves 167,000 water customers, 15 percent of them outside the city limits. Annual water production is about 38,000 acre feet, with 40 percent of it coming from local wells and 60 percent from the MWD.

Pasadena is a partner in the management of the Raymond Basin, a groundwater resource with unused capacity for groundwater storage. Pasadena is working with its partners MWD and the Foothill Municipal Water District on a plan to allow the city to withdraw stored water in the basin to replace imported water when drought issues exist.


The city is also working toward seismic upgrades of reservoirs and booster stations, a long-range effort to replace and upgrade water mains, and pursue connections with neighboring water agencies, according to the report.

A well-publicized local water issue is the continuing effort to deal with perchlorate contamination of local wells. The city is also looking to expand the use of non-potable, or gray water for more issues, and promote continued conservation by local users.

The council adopted as a strategic goal that “Pasadena be a city that responsibly manages its environmental resources and utilizes technology to improve the quality of life, focusing on such areas as water quality, water and energy conservation and waste management.” There is no direct fiscal impact from the water plan.

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