DATE: June 22, 2021
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Public Works
SUBJECT
Tuolumne River Voluntary Agreement: Presentation and Discussion of Tuolumne River Voluntary Agreement (TRVA) as an Alternative to the Bay-Delta Plan
RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council reviews and comments on this report.
SUMMARY
As the State experiences drought conditions this year, all water agencies in California, including the City of Hayward (City), are in the process of updating their 2020 Urban Water Management Plans (UWMP). Agencies’ projected water demands, and blueprints to ensure sufficient long-term water supplies to their customers, are major components of the Plans. Because the City, as well as its other wholesale agencies, depend on potable water supplies from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), that water is critical to the wholesale agencies’ supply projections. This year, the SFPUC in its own projections has incorporated certain flow assumptions emanating from the State Water Resources Control Board’s (State Board) Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary (Bay-Delta Plan). Based on modeling of those flow assumptions, the SFPUC is anticipating significant cutbacks to regional water supplies in dry and multiple-dry years.
This report provides background information on the Bay-Delta Plan and the Tuolumne River Voluntary Agreement (Voluntary Agreement), and their potential impacts on projected water supply availability. Nicole Sandkulla, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA) will make a presentation about these documents at this meeting.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment I Staff Report