ITEM:		CONSENT CALENDAR
12.	RECEIVE AND FILE DISTRICT-WIDE ANNUAL WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PRODUCTION SUMMARY REPORT FOR WATER YEAR 2014
Meeting Date:			April 20, 2015	Budgeted:	N/A
From:			David Stoldt,	Program/	Hydrologic Monitoring
			General Manager	Line Item No.:	N/A
Prepared By:			Thomas Lindberg	Cost Estimate:	N/A
General Counsel Approval: N/A
Committee Recommendation: N/A
CEQA Compliance: N/A

SUMMARY: Staff has prepared the draft Water Production Summary Report for Water Distribution Systems (WDSs) within the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (District) for Water Year (WY) 2014. WY 2014 covers the 12-month period from October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014. Preliminary computations indicate that 11,879 acre-feet (AF) of water were produced by the 130 recognized WDSs in the District during WY 2014. In general, recognized WDSs refer to systems that either: (a) have received a WDS permit, or (b) have been confirmed as a pre-existing system prior to District rules that expanded WDS permitting requirements. The California American Water (Cal-Am) main system, which is the largest WDS in the District, accounted for 10,614 AF or approximately 89% of the total production reported by WDSs in WY 2014.

RECOMMENDATION: This report is for informational purposes only. The Board should review the draft summary report and provide staff with any comments or questions. Staff will complete and file the final report, incorporating any late revisions, if this item is approved with the Consent Calendar.

BACKGROUND: All owners and operators of WDSs within the District are required to annually submit water production information to the District. In 1980, District Ordinance No. 1 defined a WDS as works within the District used for the collection, storage, transmission, or distribution of water from the source of supply to the connection of a system providing water service to any connection including all water-gathering facilities and water-measuring devices. Therefore, all wells within the District are considered to be WDSs. However, until the adoption of Ordinance No. 96 in 2001, only multiple-parcel WDSs were required to obtain a permit from the District. Other refinements to the Rules and Regulations governing WDSs were added with the adoption of Ordinance No. 105 in 2002; Ordinance No. 106 in 2003; Ordinance No. 118 in 2005; and Ordinance No. 122 in 2006.

Four new single-parcel WDSs (i.e., the Washburn, Dobbas, Riches, Amatya, and Cooper WDSs) and four multiple-parcel WDSs (Saxton, RSCRd #3/Hatton Rancho, and Unitarian Church WDSs) were established in WY 2014. In addition, the CAW WDS permit was amended to allow for transfer of a portion of Cal-Am’s Seaside Groundwater Basin water rights to Cypress Pacific owned property in Sand City. All of the potable water produced by the Sand City Desalination Plant was provided to the Cal-Am main system, however, that amount (178.51 AF) is tracked separately on this table. In WY 2014, no water was diverted for Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR), and none was delivered into the Cal-Am system.

It is also noted that in WY 2005, the Cañada Woods Alluvial, Cañada Woods Upland and Monterra Ranch WDSs were merged into the Cañada Woods Water Company WDS, although they are reported separately here to facilitate comparisons from one year to another. Of the 11 WDS Permit Exemptions issued during WY 2014, three were for new wells located outside of the Monterey Peninsula Water Resources System (MPWRS) that would have required full WDS Permits prior to the adoption of Ordinance 160 in April 2014, three were for replacement of pre-exiting wells outside of the MPWRS, four were for older existing wells within the MPWRS and one was for a pre-existing diversion from the Carmel River.

Each WDS must report the amount of water produced and where required, the amount of water delivered, in addition to the number of existing and new connections served during the reporting period. The information for WY 2014 is summarized in Exhibit 12-A. The WDSs shown are grouped by source area. This information is also incorporated into the District-Wide Water Production Summary Report, presented as the following item of the Consent Calendar of this packet. For comparative purposes, the Annual WDS Production Summary Report for WY 2013 is provided as Exhibit 12-B. Note that the version of the Annual WDS Production Summary Report for WY 2013 presented here may have been revised since it was originally presented to the Board on April 21, 2014, based on information received since that time.

Production figures for three WDSs -- Bishop, Ryan Ranch, and Hidden Hills Units -- are reported separately from the Cal-Am main system, although Cal-Am owns and operates each of these satellite units. The Ryan Ranch Unit was acquired and annexed into the Cal-Am system in November 1989. The Hidden Hills Unit, which formerly reported as the Carmel Valley Mutual Water Company, was acquired and annexed into the Cal-Am system in March 1993. The Bishop Unit, which has been operated by Cal-Am since September 1996, was acquired and annexed into the Cal-Am system in July 1999. Although water production and delivery values for the Bishop, Hidden Hills and Ryan Ranch Units are reported separately from the values for Cal-Am’s main system in this report, they are included in Cal-Am’s total production in the District-wide Production Summary Report (Exhibit 13-A) as “Cal-Am Wells Within the Water Resources System”.

The production shown in Exhibit 12-A for Monterra Ranch includes water produced from wells that was sent to the system’s reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant and un-treated water that was produced for non-potable purposes. For WY 2014, the reported percentage of unaccounted water for Monterra Ranch represents a comparison of the amount of RO plant and brine production (40.80 + 10.55 AF) minus metered consumption and brine production (40.40 + 10.55 AF) divided by RO plant and brine production (39.72 + 10.55 AF). This percentage does not include the amount of non-potable water produced by wells that was not sent to the plant (20.93 AF).

District-wide - Total WDS production within the District for WY 2014 was 11,879 AF. Of this total, the Cal-Am main system (i.e., not including the Bishop, Hidden Hills and Ryan Ranch Units) accounted for 89% of the water produced by WDSs within the District. The other 129 systems (i.e., including the Bishop, Hidden Hills and Ryan Ranch Units) accounted for the remaining 11 percent of production. Total WDS production for WY 2014 is 775 AF (6%) less than the production reported for WY 2013. During WY 2014, Cal-Am’s main system production decreased by 443 AF (4%), while reported non Cal-Am WDS production decreased by 332 AF (20.8%), relative to production in WY 2013.

Monterey Peninsula Water Resources System (MPWRS) - Total WDS production from the MPWRS, which includes the Carmel River and its tributaries, the Carmel Valley alluvial aquifer, the Seaside Groundwater Basin was 11,404 AF in WY 2014.

The comparisons below include production from Cal-Am’s satellite systems (Bishop, Hidden Hills and Ryan Ranch Units) that derive their source of supply from the Laguna Seca Subarea (LSS) of the Seaside Groundwater Basin. The LSS was added to the MPWRS with the adoption of Ordinance No. 135 on September 22, 2008. Total WDS production within the MPWRS decreased by 478 AF (4%) in WY 2014 compared to production in WY 2013. In WY 2014, production by Cal-Am from within the MPWRS decreased by 458 AF (4%) and the combined production from 22 other active systems within the MPWRS decreased by 20 AF (4%), relative to production reported for WY 2013.

EXHIBITS

12-A Water Production Summary Report for Water Distribution Systems for Water Year 2014

12-B Water Production Summary Report for Water Distribution Systems for Water Year 2013

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