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7A <br /> Page 1 <br /> R�POF�T <br /> To the Honorable Mayor and City Eouncii <br /> ��om t�e C'; ; 11�ana er <br /> May 12r 211�C) <br /> Sua�ECr <br /> Redwood City Recycied Water Use Ordinance ° <br /> RECOMMENDATION <br /> 1. Introduce Ordinance Adding Chapter 38, Article Vil to the Redwood City Code —the <br /> Recycled Water Use Ordinance <br /> 2. Adopt a resolu�ion that establishes a Recycied Water Service Area Map in <br /> connection with the City's Qrdinance regarding recycled wate�use <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> Redwood City is 100% reliant on one source of drinking wa#er supply, the San <br /> Francisco regionai water system. Since 1998, the City has consumed an average of � <br /> 700 acre feet of water per year over the City's contractuat supply assurance of 12,243 <br /> acre feet per year. To affset this demand imba[ance, the City prompted studies which <br /> demonstrated that implementing a recycled water projec#, in conjunction �,�:th an <br /> aggressive water conservation program, would enable the City to elimina#e its drinking <br /> water supply deficit by 2010, and provide a sustamabie watec supply for existing and <br /> future customers. <br /> In August 20Q3, the City Counci) approved a braadly-defined and flexible recycled water <br /> project to help the Ci#y achieve 'rts goal of reducing demands on the San Francisco <br /> regional wate� system. Also in 20Q3, the City Council created the Cammunity Task <br /> Force on Recycled Water. The objective of the Task Force, in summary, was to identify <br /> ways to reduce the d�inking wa#e� demand in a financia(ly feasible manner. The Task <br /> Force focused an soiving the City's water supply and demand imbalance by #he yea� <br /> 2010 and presented its recammendations to City Council via the Recycled Water Task <br /> Force Report dated March 3, 2004. City Council accep#ed the Task Force <br /> recommendations on March 22, 2004; which included four icey components and ten <br /> "Other Potential Measures (QPMs}." OPM #4 of the Task Force Report tAdopt an <br /> Qrdinance to implement Conservation Measures) was a recommendation that the City <br /> adopt an ordinance to implement conservation measures including dual plumbing in <br /> new commercial construction. <br /> This proposed Recycled Water Use Ordinance does not focus solely on separate piping <br /> systems for recycled water and drinking water, or in other words, "dual plumbing." The <br /> purpose o# the Recycled Water Use Ordinance is to ensure that the City remain <br /> consistent with the Califarnia Water Code by achieving the maximum public benefit from <br /> the use of the Ciiy's recycled water supply. The ordinance estabiishes a recycled water <br /> service area, and requirements for approved uses within the service area. It entails a <br /> City policy that recycted water shail be used for non-patable uses wherever i#s use is <br /> economically justified, financially and technically feasibte, and consistent with State of <br />