BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:Title
Receive Information on Santa Clara Valley Water District's Annual Work Study Session of its Water Supply Master Plan Monitoring and Assessment Program Update.
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RECOMMENDATION:Recommendation
A. Receive information on the Annual Work Study Session on the Water Supply Master Plan Monitoring and Assessment Program Update - Water Supply Master Plan Benchmarking Study;
B. Review and provide feedback on the Annual Work Study Session on the Water Supply Master Plan Monitoring and Assessment Program Update - Water Supply Master Plan Project Evaluation Framework Concept; and
C. Provide direction to staff.
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SUMMARY:
The Water Supply Master Plan 2040 (WSMP) is Santa Clara Valley Water District's (Valley Water) guiding document for long-term water supply investments to ensure water supply reliability for Santa Clara County. Adopted by Valley Water's Board of Directors (Board) in 2019, this long-range water supply plan assesses the future county-wide demands and evaluates and recommends water supply and infrastructure projects to meet those demands to achieve its level of service (LOS) goal through 2040.
Valley Water follows a roughly 5-year cycle for its WSMP update. To help inform the direction and framework of the next WSMP update and as part of the annual Monitoring and Assessment Program (MAP), Valley Water staff, with consultant support, performed a benchmarking study to learn best practices in long range water supply planning from some of its peer water utilities. This MAP 2022 memorandum presents findings and recommendations from the study. It also discusses a framework for project evaluation within the context of WSMP, as well as a timeline and next steps for the next comprehensive WSMP update.
Benchmarking Study Overview
The benchmarking study is intended to assess good practices from peer agencies' long range water supply planning efforts to help inform Valley Water's next WSMP update. The study includ...
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