Das Williams First District Board of Supervisors Janet Wolf County Administration Building Second District*

Published: August 22, 2017 7 pages

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Findings and Recommendations 3 findings

No single entity has decision or enforcement power within Santa Barbara County to lead regional planning. The Board of Supervisors agrees with this finding.

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That the Santa Barbara County Water Agency be designated as the permanent lead agency of the Santa Barbara County Cooperating Partners and granted enforcement power to ensure reliability of Santa Barbara County water supplies. The recommendation will not be implemented. Organizationally, the County Water Agency has no statutory authority over the various water purveyors in the County, unless and until the authority were to change, this recommendation is not feasible. To have the powers recommended, either Legislation at the State level would be needed, or the purveyors would have to agree in writing to grant the Agency this authority which currently has a low likelihood of occurring. While each purveyor does have authority over certain water sources that they own and control, there are other sources that are more regionally operated. For example, the State Water Project is controlled by the State of California, and the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA) delivers the water to the participants. However, as noted in the Grand Jury's 2015-16 Report "Lake Cachuma, Protecting a Valuable Resource, You can't Drink Paper Water", the County Water Agency is pursuing the Contract renewal for the Cachuma Project as approved by the Board of Directors of the County Water Agency on May 2, 2017. As responded by the County Water Agency Board, the County Water Agency strongly believes a scientifically based yield curve is needed for Lake Cachuma to ensure that a stable supply is available for the design drought in concert with the parameters and principles that the Cachuma Project was based on. In doing so, the other various supplies can be used to make up the differences in the supplies, perhaps in conjunction with demand management be each purveyor if needed.

Additional supply sources such as desalination and recycled water are available to localized agencies but there is no concerted effort to develop them regionally. The Board of Supervisors agrees with the finding.

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That Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, in conjunction with San Luis Obispo County, explore the Diablo Canyon desalination plant as a source of water. The recommendation has been implemented. In previous Board meetings, the Board has expressed a desire to explore a cooperative effort with San Luis Obispo County and directed Staff to explore this option further. To that end, County staff, along with staff of CCWA toured the Diablo Desalination facility, led by PG&E staff on July 10, 2015. In addition, County staff engaged the regional desalination proposal with San Luis Obispo County (SLOC) Public Works officials on June 16, 2016, followed by several other discussions. On May 5, Attachment A 2016, then Chair, Supervisor Adam, and County staff toured the newly constructed Carlsbad Desalination facility in San Diego County. Finally, representatives of Poseidon Water (developer of the Carlsbad Plant) attended a Santa Barbara County Water Purveyor Meeting on January 12, 2017 to outline the development process. SLOC was in attendance in this meeting as well. It is important to note that a Regional Desalination project is an option for increasing regional water supply, there needs to be an interest by a group of purveyors to give that project traction. In addition, since the possible transmission system of the State Water Project Coastal Aqueduct is operated by CCWA, a Diablo Desalination option, or other desalination option in the north, would need to be coordinated through CCWA. Through a series of potential exchanges SLOC, as well as the County, would benefit from a joint desalination plant.

Funding under Propositions 50, 84, and 1E has not yet been granted to the County of Santa Barbara for the Cooperating Partners of Santa Barbara Integrated Regional Water Management's prioritized list of water supply projects. The Board of Supervisors agrees with the finding. While the County has received funding under these Propositions in the past, the most recent list of prioritized water supply/drought projects has not received funding yet. Past funding for water, wastewater, and flood control funding is listed below. PROPOSITION 50 Project Proponent Project Grant Award COMB Modified SCC Upper Reach Project $3,200,000 Carpinteria Sanitary District Bluffs Sewer Relocation $1,250,000 Central Zone Pipeline Improvements & Carpinteria Valley Water District Demonstration Aquifer Storage & $2,000,000 Recovery Well Casmalia Community Services District Water System Retrofit Project $631,700 Wastewater Treatment Plant City of Guadalupe $4,750,000 Improvement Project Santa Barbara Flood Control District / Lower Mission Creek Flood Control & $1,000,000 City of Santa Barbara Restoration Project Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion City of Santa Maria $4,800,000 Project, Phase 2 Santa Barbara County Agricultural Santa Ynez River Arundo Removal $100,000 Commissioner's Office Project Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent Cuyama Community Services District $279,800 Disinfection Project Cuyama Community Services District Water Supply Improvement Project $363,500 Fairview Avenue/San Pedro Creek Goleta Sanitary District $1,500,000 Sewer Line Relocation Project Aquifer Storage & Recovery - San Goleta Water District $400,000 Ricardo Well Rehabilitation Project Recycled Water Tank & System Laguna Sanitary District $525,000 Improvement Project Vandenberg Village Community Lompoc Regional Wastewater $4,000,000 Services District Reclamation Plant Upgrade Project TOTAL $24,800,000 Attachment A PROPOSITION 84 Round 1 - Planning Grant Award Project Proponent Project $357,807 Santa Barbara County IRWM Plan Update Santa Barbara County/South Coast $98,770 Carpinteria Water & Sanitation Districts, Montecito Sanitation District, Goleta Water Sub-Region Recycled Water & Sanitation Districts, Goleta West Development Plan Sanitation District, City of Santa Barbara, Heal The Ocean $99,160 City of Santa Maria, City of Guadalupe, Groundwater Basin Assessment in Laguna County Sanitation District Support of a Salt and Nutrient Management Plan TOTAL $555,737 PROPOSITION 84 Round 1 - Implementation Grant Award Project Proponent Project Lompoc Valley Leak Detection & Repair City of Lompoc $171,428 Project Untreated Water Landscape Irrigation Project City of Santa Maria $521,428 City of Santa Maria LeakWatch Project $191,428 City of Goleta San Jose Creek Capacity Improvement & Fish $1,202,428 Passage Project Central Coast Water Authority Water Supply Reliability & Infrastructure $321,428 Improvement Project Goleta Sanitary District Wastewater Treatment Plan Upgrade $521,428 City of Guadalupe $71,428 Recycled Water Feasibility Study TOTAL $3,000,996 PROPOSITION 84 Drought Round Project Proponent Grant Award Project City of Santa Barbara Recycled Water Enhancement Project $1,045,222 COMB Lake Cachuma Drought Pumping Facility $1,037,842 Project Santa Barbara County Water Agency $41,500 Grant Administration TOTAL $2,124,564

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That the funding applied for by the County of Santa Barbara on behalf of the Cooperating Partners of Santa Barbara County Integrated Regional Water Management is actively pursued. The recommendation has been implemented. The County Office of Emergency Management in conjunction with Senator Hannah Beth Jackson, Assemblywoman Monique Limon, the State Governor's Office of Attachment A ī Emergency Services (OES), and the County Water Agency held a series of meetings on this issue to work together to deliver the State a list of projects for better water reliability. That action, along with an on-going proce next IRWMP funding round is expected in 2018. . Attachment A County of Santa Barbara BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Minute Order August 22, 2017 Received and filed staff presentation and conducted public hearing. A motion was made by Supervisor Williams, seconded by Supervisor Wolf, that this matter be acted on as follows: Acting as the Board of Supervisors: a) Adopted; b) Approved and authorized; Chair to execute; and c) Approved. Acting as the Board of Directors, Water Agency: d) Adopted; e) Approved and authorized; Chair to execute; and f) Approved. The motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: 5 - Supervisor Williams, Supervisor Wolf, Supervisor Hartmann, Supervisor Adam, and Supervisor Lavagnino . ÷ County of Santa Barbara BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Minute Order August 22, 2017 5 - Supervisor Williams, Supervisor Wolf, Supervisor Hartmann, Supervisor Adam, and Present: Supervisor Lavagnino COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE, PUBLIC WORKS, BOARD OF File Reference No. 17-00605 DIRECTORS, WATER AGENCY HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding a response to the 2016-2017 Grand Jury Report: RE: Managing Regional Water Supplies, as follows: (EST. TIME: 15 MIN.) Acting as the Board of Supervisors: a) Consider and adopt responses as the Board of Supervisors' response to the 2016-2017 Grand Jury report entitled "Managing Regional Water Supplies, Are There Better Solutions?"; b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court; c) Determine pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guideline 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review because they are organizational or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment; and Acting as the Board of Directors, Water Agency: d) Consider and adopt responses as the Water Agency Board of Directors' response to the 2016-2017 Grand Jury report entitled "Managing Regional Water Supplies, Are There Better Solutions?"; e) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and f) Determine pursuant to CEQA Guideline 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review because they are organizational or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE County of Santa Barbara

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