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I>L£AS&NTON City Council Staff Report August 16, 2005 Public Works Department Law Department SUBJECT: JOINT RESOLUTION AND POLICY PRINCIPLES REGARDING WATER QUALITY TO BE ADOPTED BY TIlE CITY OF PLEASANTON, THE DUBLIN SAN RAMON SERVICES DISTRICT AND THE ZONE 7 WATER AGENCY STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approve the attached Joint Resolution and Policy Principles regarding Water Quality SUMMARY: On May 13, 2005, there was a joint meeting involving members of the City Council, the DSRSD Board, and the Zone 7 Board, where a number of issues relative to Zone 7's Well Master Plan and water quality were discussed. Direction was given to staff of all three agencies at that meeting to bring back to the elected officials a "road map" that could be reviewed and agreed upon by all three agencies to address the past, current and future concerns of the Well Master Plan and water quality impacts such Plan could have on Zone 7's retailers. On August 1, 2005, another joint meeting of the same elected officials from the three agencies was held to review two documents that are before City Council tonight for approval. The first document is a Joint Resolution (attached) regarding the importance of improving water quality and requiring all three agencies to work in the future to accomplish this goal. The second document, known as the Policy Principles (attached), sets out a number of specific phases, targets, studies, and principles for the staff of all three agencies to work toward to improve water quality, while also allowing Zone 7 to proceed with drilling a minimum of two additional wells while this staff analysis and work is taking place. In addition, two new mitigation measures were incorporated into Zone 7's Final EIR document which requires Zone 7 to develop a Groundwater Influence Study that will allow all three agencies the opportunity SR:05:232 Page 1 of 4