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RESOLUTION NO. 14-710 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON, ADOPTING AN INITIAL STUDY/MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT FOR THE RECYCLED WATER PROJECT, AND ADOPTING A MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM WHEREAS, the City of Pleasanton prepared an Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Recycled Water Pipeline Project (Proposed Project) in accordance with the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended ("CEQA"), and state and local guidelines implementing CEQA; and WHEREAS, the City of Pleasanton (City) is the lead agency on the Proposed Project, and the City Council is the decision-making body for the Proposed Project; and WHEREAS, the purpose of the Proposed Project/Action is to construct and operate a new recycled water system to replace/augment existing irrigation supplies in the City's service area. The development of recycled water service within the City will lessen the demand for Zone 7 Water Agency (Zone 7) potable water supplies and help the City meet the State of California's Water Conservation Act of 2009, which requires a 20 percent reduction in urban per capita water use by the year 2020. Furthermore, the addition of recycled water to the City's water supply portfolio will increase its water system's reliability since recycled water is a local supply within the City's control and is drought-resistant; and WHEREAS, the Proposed Project/Action includes the upgrade and expansion of the Dublin San Ramon Services District's (DSRSD) existing wastewater treatment plant (VVVVTP) to provide a recycled water supply of approximately 2,500 acre-feet per year(afy) to meet recycled water demand in the City's service area and offset deliveries from the City's groundwater supplies and water supply purchases from Zone 7; and WHEREAS, all of the WWTP plant upgrades will be included within DSRSD's existing WWTP location and within existing facilities that were previously designed, sized, and constructed for this potential upgrade and expansion; and WHEREAS, all of the recycled water will be produced by the City of Livermore Waste Water Treatment Facility and/or the Dublin San Ramon Services District/East Bay Municipal District (DERWA) Recycled Water Treatment Facility; and WHEREAS, the Proposed Project/Action also includes the construction of up to approximately 22-miles (115,200 linear feet) of pipeline ranging in diameter from 6-inches to 18- inches in addition to approximately 3.2 miles (16,500 feet) of existing pipeline that will be repurposed from abandoned or existing potable pipelines; and WHEREAS, the Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration concluded that implementation of the Project could result in a number of significant effects on the environment and identified mitigation measures that would reduce the significant effects to a less-than- significant level; and