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�.A��i �,3 A reliable water supply is vitally important to Redwood City's existing and ftrture customers. Correcting the current circumstances of the City using more water from the Hetch-Hetchy regional water system than is assured by contract has been a City Council priority for severai .years. On August 11, 2003 �he City Council adopted Resolution No. 14547 appr,�ving the Redwood City Recycled Water Projed and associated facilities. The brosdly-defined project is intended tu deliver recyGed water for non-potable uses in a way that is both cost-effective and respectful of the concerrms of the community. The spec�c goals of the project are to free up a limited supply of high-quality drinking water by distributing 2,000 acre feet per year of recycled water (or water conservation) by 2010. The City Council also directed the City Clerk to file a Notice of Determination with the County of San Mateo and the State of Califomia. The city staff and Planning Commission review of the MSV project relied on water supply projections based on the City Council's August 11, 2003, action approving the Redwood City Recycled Water Project and associated facilities. To address some citizen concems about impacts on public health and safety as a result of converting landscape irrigation water to recycled water where small children play, the City Council formed a broad-based community task force for the purpose of exploring other, financially feasible approaches that may be able to deliver recycled water to different rypes of sites in scheduled program phases than previously envisioned. The Task Force completed its work and presented its recommendations to the City Council on March 22, 2004. '� The implications on the recycied water project and its ability to meet the 2010 delivery goal do not significant�y change with the recommended "Alternative Task Force" project and associated goals: • 1,687 acre feet per year of recycled water delivery (new water supply) • 150 acre feet per year of reduced demand on Hetch Hetchy supply via construction of six new, artificiai play fields ■ 142 acre feet per year of reduced demand on Hetch Hetchy supply via additional water conservation measures (in addition to current "active" program elements) and continued/expanded use of groundwater Combined, it is projected that the City will reduce its demand on the regional water system by 1,979 acre feet per year by 2010, and be prepared to meet some of the new demand caused by growth as early phases of anticipated developments are occupied in the latter years of the decade. In addition to the recycled water, the developer will also have to provide an emergency three-day potable water supply for public use and fire protection. Storage facilities for this emergency supply could be either on or off site so long as adequate transmission infrastructure is developed. 9 '