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modified unanimously by the agencies; 2) the sewer service area would be limited to the existing and future incorporated areas of Pleasanton, Livermore and Dublin and a western portion of San Ramon, with minor exceptions, and no sewer service would be to the Tassajara and Dougherty Valley areas; and 3) a new pipeline would be constructed with a capacity of 21 million gallons per day. The development of the RO project would not adjust or increase design the limitations of the Principles of Agreement. The principles of agreement also provided for a number of correlating issues to be addressed. For example if the City of Pleasanton chooses not to participate in the RO project, DSRSD would retain all disposal, capacity rights and recycling rights from the RO project but could not use City funds for construction or operation of that project. The City's agreement is required before its wastewater can be used for the RO project unless it is determined that it is less expensive to dispose of the influent through RO than through the LAVWMA facilities. Bob Beebe, General Manager of DSRSD, said from 1989-1993 DSRSD has worked with the City of Livermore and Zone 7 to prepare a plan for the use of recycled water. In 1993, the Dublin voters approved the East Dublin Specific Plan and the first annexation was in 1994. It became clear to DSRSD that it had a commitment to serve the planned expansion of Dublin. In 1994/1995 it was recommended that year round recycling was the best approach in the form of reverse osmosis and groundwater injection. The DSRSD Board approved this. In 1995 Dave Requa joined DSRSD and put together the project team, which had a wide range of expertise. In 1997, after $1.75 million was spent studying the groundwater, modeling the movement of the groundwater and studying the impacts of the project on the community, the EIR was approved. The LAVWMA Principles of Agreement were approved approximately two months later. DSRSD believes this project is an a~set to the community; this is very high quality water. DSRSD likes this type of a project because it serves two customers: the wastewater customer anti ultimately the potable water customer. DSRSD realizes it needs to educate the community so the community shares DSRSD's enthusiasm and confidence. Dave Requa, Engineering Manager of DSRSD, described how the Clean Water Revival Project works. He explained the need for the project, provided a project description, described the quality and benefits of other similar projects and described, Valley agency participation and public education. He said the current import of water is approximately 85 percent: import will increase in the next twenty-five years. He said sewer capacity has increased over the last several years and it is extremely high this year. DSRSD has been able to prevent overflow by the use of dedicated land disposal sites. But this has caused odor problems in the neighborhood and limits the ability to dispose of sludge. He explained that the injection into the groundwater will only occur during the wet weather months. Even with the LAVWMA expansion, this project will be beneficial if there are a number of wet weather months. He showed transparencies of the project. He explained the treatment process the water will go through before it ends up being injected into the ground and what happens to the water after it is injected. The process will eliminate the bacteria and harmful elements. The water put into the groundwater meets every drinking water standard and in fact is better quality than most valley water supplies. He listed similar projects, two of which are the US Army and NASA. He said DSRSD and Zone Pleasanton City Council 2 09/08/98 Minutes