EXHIBIT 12-A
DRAFT
RESOLUTION NO. 2014-15
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE
MONTEREY PENINSULA WATER
MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
MODIFYING RULE 162 – REGULATORY
PRODUCTION TARGETS FOR
WHEREAS, the Monterey Peninsula Water
Management District has developed a set of rules to facilitate compliance by
California American Water systems with the regulatory and legal water
production limits set by the State Water Resources Control Board and the Seaside
Basin Adjudication as administered by the Seaside Groundwater Basin Watermaster;
WHEREAS, District Rule 162 specifies the
regulatory water production targets that are used to trigger higher stages of
water conservation to ensure compliance with these legal and regulatory water
production limits;
WHEREAS, these limits are subject to
change by action of the State Water Resources Control Board and Seaside
Groundwater Basin Watermaster;
WHEREAS, the State Water Resources
Control Board adopted Order WR 2009-0060 on October 20, 2009, which requires
California American Water to divert no more than 9,945 acre-feet from its
Carmel River system sources in Water Year 2015;
WHEREAS, the Monterey County Superior
Court adopted an Amended Decision in the Seaside Groundwater Basin Adjudication
on February 9, 2007 (California American
Water v. City of
WHEREAS, the Seaside Groundwater Basin Watermaster has not yet determined the amount of carryover
credit, if any, that California American Water has from Water Year 2014 that
will be available for diversion in Water Year 2015; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to modify the
monthly and year-to-date at month-end water production targets in Tables XV-1,
XV-2 and XV-3 to reflect the projected quantities of production available to
California American Water for diversion from the Carmel River and Seaside
Groundwater Basins for Water Year 2015.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
1.
District
staff shall modify Tables XV-1, XV-2
and XV-3 of District Rule 162 to reflect the projected quantities of
production available to California American Water for diversion from the Carmel
River and Seaside Groundwater Basins for Water Year 2015.
2.
Specifically, District staff shall replace the monthly and
year-to-date at month-end values presently shown in Tables XV-1, XV-2 and XV-3
of Rule 162 with the monthly and year-to-date at month-end values shown on the
attached tables (Attachment 1).
3.
In addition, District staff shall renumber existing
Table XV-3 of Rule 162 (titled “Derivation of Water Rationing Triggers for the
Monterey Peninsula Water Resource System” and make that Table XV-4.
On
motion of Director ____________, and second by Director _____________, the
foregoing resolution is duly adopted this 15th day of September 2014, by the
following votes:
AYES:
NAYES:
ABSENT:
I, David J. Stoldt, Secretary of
the Board of Directors of the MPWMD, hereby certify that the foregoing is a
full, true and correct copy of a resolution duly adopted on the 15th day of
September 2014.
Witness my hand and seal of the
Board of Directors, this ______ day of September, 2014.
__________________________________
David
J. Stoldt, Secretary to the Board
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