Regional Water Infrastructure Resiliency Planning

Public Draft of the Regional Water Infrastructure Resiliency Plan is now available! Click here.

In response to the recent drought and in anticipation of future drought conditions, the Water Resources Division is coordinating with key water agencies throughout the county to develop a balanced action plan for mitigating vulnerabilities and enhancing reliability, resilience, and optimum utilization of existing and future regional water infrastructure. This effort implements State priorities related to countywide drought planning and key recommendations from the Countywide Master Water Report:

  • Lead efforts to optimize the use of unsubscribed and/or underutilized water from the State Water Project and Nacimiento Water Project, in conjunction with other facilities, to promote enhanced use of existing available resources that support local agency use and exchanges (Section 4.8.2.1)
  • Support development of contingency plans (Section 4.8.1)
  • Develop “boiler plate” agreements, streamlined processes for local interagency collaboration and governance structures for future projects and programs (Section 4.8.6)

When complete, specific prioritized actions to address priority vulnerabilities will be identified along with sample agreements to assist with moving forward on those actions.


Project Updates

Project Charter

A draft Project Charter has been developed to help guide water agency coordination on this effort.

View the scope of work for the planning effort here.


FAQs

The public will be informed via updates to this website and periodic updates to the County’s Water Resources Advisory Committee.

While the plan is not subject to environmental review, the actions, when initiated, would be.

County staff and other water management entities are taking an “all of the above” approach to achieving water resource sustainability in all areas of the county, and this effort is in addition to other efforts related to pursuing conservation, groundwater recharge and recycled water as solutions.  For more information on efforts in the county, please visit SLOCountyWater.