Laserfiche WebLink
THE CITY OF <br />Water Shortage Contingency Plan rLEASANTON. <br />4.2 Additional Mandatory Restrictions <br />The City protects and preserves the community water supply by defining wasteful water use as a violation <br />of water service. Per PMC §14.04.060, the City's current definitions of water waste include: <br />1. Use of potable water between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. to irrigate grass, lawns, <br />groundcover, shrubbery, crops, vegetation, and trees, with the exception of hand <br />watering and drip irrigation. <br />2. The application of potable water to outdoor landscaping in a manner that causes runoff <br />such that water flows onto adjacent property, non -irrigated areas, private and public <br />walkways, roadways, parking lots or structures. <br />3. Use of potable water to irrigate outdoor landscaping during and within 48 hours after <br />measurable rainfall. <br />4. Use of potable water to wash down sidewalks, walkways, driveways, parking lots, open <br />ground or other hard surface areas by the direct application of water thereto, unless needed <br />for health or safety reasons. <br />5. Use of potable water in non -recirculating decorative ponds, fountains and other water <br />features, with the exception of child water -play features. <br />6. Allowing potable water to escape from breaks within the person or consumer's plumbing <br />system for more than eight hours after the person or consumer is notified or discovers <br />the break. <br />7. Use of potable water for outdoor landscaping through a dedicated irrigation meter within <br />the city's recycled water use area unless exempted by the director of operations and water <br />utilities for existing water customers, or city engineer for new development. <br />These restrictions are in addition to State -mandated prohibitions. <br />4.3 Supply Augmentation and Other Actions <br />Chapter 6 of the City's 2020 UWMP describes the City's normal supply portfolio, which includes purchased <br />treated water from Zone 7 and local groundwater. While Zone 7 has its own supply augmentation options, <br />increased groundwater pumping is the City's only such option. Per its water supply contract with Zone 7, <br />the City has a groundwater pumping quota (GPQ) of 3,500 acre-feet per year (AFY), with the possibility of <br />carrying over up to 700 AFY of unused GPQ from the previous year. To exceed its GPQ the City would <br />have to coordinate with Zone 7. Table 6 lists this supply augmentation method, which the City would use <br />during Stage 6 (i.e., greater than 50 percent shortage). <br />Table 6. Supply Augmentation and Other Actions (DWR Table 8-3) <br />Supply Augmentation Methods and <br />Other Actions by Water Supplier How much is this going to reduce <br />Additional Explanation or Reference <br />Shortage Level Drop down list the shortage gap? Include units <br />(optional) <br />These are the only categories that will be used (volume type or percentage) <br />accepted by the WUEdato online submittal tool <br />Stored emergency supply Up to shortage gap <br />10 <br />Request expansion of groundwater <br />pumping quota from Zone 7 <br />City of Pleasanton <br />N-e80-60-20-04-wP-R-e80-2020uwMP Last Revised: 05-05-21 <br />