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top priorities for 2002 -2004. The City has developed plans for a recycled water tre;jIftment, storage, pumping and distribution system that will serve high quality water to existing and future water users for landscape irrigation and various industrial uses. This system provides a means of meeting water demands that would otherwise have to be met from potable water sources. The recycled water system is described in an engineering feasibility report previously reviewed and accepted by the City Council: Water Recycling Feasibility Study for Redwood City, by Kennedy Jenks Consultants, August 7, 2002. Attachment 'E' includes excerpts from the executive summary of the August 7, 2002 final report, presenting the consultant's recommended project, estimated project costs, implementation strategy and schedule for implementation. The recommended project would, at full utilization, deliver up to 2,000 AF/Yr by 2010, thereby reducing demand on the San Francisco regional water system. On August 11, 2003 the City Council approved a broadly - defined recycled water project and directed the City Clerk to file a Notice of Determination with the County Clerk and the State of California. Attachment'F includes the staff report and Resolution No. 14547 from the August 11 Council meeting. The Council's commitment to establish a community task force on recycled water will not affect this WSA, as the task force will focus on the feasibility of delivering recycled water to alternative sites in an economically feasible manner, and attain 2,000 AF/Yr of new water supply by 2010. This WSA determines that the City of Redwood City does not currently have sufficient water supply to meet the projected water demands of the proposed Abbott Laboratories Project together with those of its existing customers as well as the demands of other planned development. However, if the City is able to implement plans for additional supplies through a recycled water project approved by the City Council in August 2003, there should be sufficient water supply to meet projected future demands. As this WSA points out, Redwood City's supply reliability now and into the future is a key factor in this determination. Once the WSA has been prepared, it must be approved by the City Council. It should be noted that the City Council's action in approving a WSA for a proposed development project is not an approval or disapproval of the project itself, in part or in whole. Nor is consideration of this WSA a discussion on the merits of, or objections to, the proposed development. As of this date, the draft EIR for the proposed development has yet to be released for public comment, so this determination is very early in the sequence of development review steps. Thus the Council's action should be narrow in its focus on the sufficiency of water supply. The WSA, including the information regarding plans for acquiring additional supplies, shall be included in the environmental document prepared for the project. In the case of the Abbott Laboratories West Coast Research Center Project, it will be included in the CEQA Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR), currently in preparation. At the subsequent stage of project approval /disapproval, the City "shall determine based on the entire record, whether projected water supplies will, or will not be sufficient to satisfy the demands of the project, in addition to existing and planned future uses." If the City determines at that point that water supplies will not be sufficient, it must include that determination in its findings for the project. As other large scale projects come forward, Water Supply Assessments will need to be 2of3