BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
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Memorandum of Understanding Between the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the City of Palo Alto Assessing the Feasibility of Developing Water Reuse Alternatives.
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RECOMMENDATION:
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Authorize the Interim Chief Executive Officer to execute the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the City of Palo Alto Assessing the Feasibility of Developing Water Reuse Alternatives.
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SUMMARY:
A proposed memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been developed with the City of Palo Alto (Palo Alto) to assess the feasibility of developing potable water reuse options in Santa Clara County. On May 30, 2017, the Board of Directors Recycled Water Committee recommended that the Board of Directors authorize the Chief Executive Officer to execute the MOU.
Background
The proposed MOU between the District and Palo Alto describes both agencies' commitments to identify the requirements, issues, activities, resources, costs, and funding necessary to implement potable and non-potable water reuse alternatives. The terms of this MOU cover important assumptions and considerations such as source water availability, permitting, reverse osmosis concentrate management, land requirements, and governance.
This MOU is intended to broadly describe our mutual commitments to study the feasibility of: (i) the District's plan to construct and operate an Advanced Water Purification Facility; (ii) water recharge and reuse alternatives identified in the Northwest County Recycled Water Strategic Plan; and (iii) future development of Palo Alto's Non-Potable Recycled Water System.
Depending on the outcomes of the feasibility assessment, these assumptions and considerations will be negotiated by the District and Palo Alto in the future under a comprehensive agreement. Palo Alto is not currently discussing or planning to discuss effluent transfers with other agencies outside of the Palo Alto Region...
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