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year of operational expenses will be included the Mid-term FY 2022/23 Recycled Water operating budget process. However, should mandatory conservation be in place in future years, staff will request on-going operational expenses from future budgets. Tri-Valley residents will purchase a "season pass" for a Program Fee of $100, which allows users an unlimited amount of recycled water during the Fill Station's operational period of April through October. Program fee revenues would be used to partially offset program costs, and would be shared equitably by DSRSD, Livermore, and Pleasanton. BACKGROUND In 2014, in response to continuing and worsening drought conditions, all the water agencies of the Tri-Valley declared a local drought emergency and implemented mandatory water conservation measures. Most notably, these included a common limit of no more than two days of outdoor irrigation a week. To provide an alternative for residents in the City of Pleasanton and DSRSD service area with trees or landscaping that required more water than the potable limits, DSRSD developed and implemented a residential recycled water fill station program at the DSRSD Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) for residential customers. DSRSD's effort was particularly innovative, requiring special approvals from the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to allow the program under the District's existing recycled water permit. The fill station served as a model for other Bay Area agency fill stations that are currently operating. Typically, residential recycled water users would utilize 280-gallon totes to haul recycled water loads of up to 2,000 pounds. DSRSD's residential fill station was popular with residents in the Tri-Valley and beyond. The number of permitted customers in 2015 rose to over 3,600, and the amount of recycled water consumed in the residential fill station program increased to 28.2 million gallons, representing about 2.7 percent of the recycled water produced that year. On individual days, the fill station use accounted for up to 5 percent of the recycled water produced. Customers were not limited to DSRSD's service area. Interest in the fill station extended throughout the Tri-Valley and as far as San Bruno, Salida, Pittsburg, Newark, Los Gatos, Foster City, and Alameda. The distribution of fill station users was: • Dublin — 17.5% • San Ramon — 12.5% • Pleasanton —45% • Other non-DSRSD customers — 25% With good precipitation in the early months of 2016, in June 2016 the Agencies terminated their local drought emergency declaration, and ended mandatory water conservation measures. On December 20, 2016, the DSRSD Board reviewed operational and financial options for the fill station. The DERWA (DSRSD-EBMUD Recycled Water Authority) Recycled Water Treatment Plant Expansion Project was planned to start in January 2017 and continued through summer 2018. The project entailed significant construction activity in and around the WWTP gate area which would create traffic conflicts with residential Page 2 of 5