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7a Page 1 R�PD�T To the Honorable Mayor and C�ty eouncil ��om t�e C" i�ana ec May 12, 2008 SUBJECT Redwood City Recycted Water Use Ordinance ' RECOMMENDATION 1. Introduce Ordinance Adding Chapter 38, Artic(e Vil to the Redwood City Cocie —the Recyc{ed Water Use Ordinance 2. Adopt a resolution that estab(ishes a Recycied Water Service Area Map in connection with the City's Ordinance regarding recycled water use BACKGROUND Redwood City is 100% refiant on one source of drinking wa#er supply, the San Francisco regionai water system. Since 1998, the City has consumed an average af 700 acre feet of water per year aver the City's contractual supply assurance of 12,243 acre feet per year. To offset this demand imbaiance, the Ci#y prompted studies which demonstra#sd that implementing a recycled water proje�t, in conjunction with an aggressive water conservation program, would enabEe the City to eliminate its drinking water supply deficit by 2010, and provide a sustainable water supply for existing and future customers. In August 2003, #he City Council approved a broadly-definecf and flexible recycled water projec# to heip the City achieve its goal of reducing demands on the San Francisco regional water system. Also in 2003, the City Council created the Community Task Force on Recycled Water. The objective of the Task Force, in summary, was to identify ways ta reduce the d�nking water demand in a financially feasible manner. The Task Force focused an salving #he City's wa#er supply and demand imbalance by #he year 2010 and presented its recommendations to City Council via the Recycled Water Task Force Report dated March 3, 2004. City Council accepted the Task Force recommendations on March 22, 2004; which included four key components and ten "Other Potential Measures (OPMs)." OPM #4 of the Task Force Report tAdopt an Ordinance ta Imptement Conservation Measures) was a recommendation that the City adopt an ordinance to implement conservation messures including dual plumbing in new commercial construction. This proposed Recycled Water Use Ordinance does not focus solely on separate piping systems for recycled water and drinking water, or in other words, "dual plumbing." The purpose of the Recycled Water Use 4rdinance is to ensure that th� City remain consistent with the Cafifomia Water Code by achieving the maximum public benefit from the use of the Ciiy's recycied water supply. The ordinance estabiishes a recycled wa#er service area, and requirements for approved uses within the service area. It entails a City policy that recycled water shall be used for non-potable uses wherever its use is econornicatly just�ed, financially and technically feasible, and consistent wifh State of