NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of San Clemente (the “City”) will hold a Public Hearing on June 15, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. at the Community Center located at 100 N. Calle Seville, San Clemente, California, 92672 to consider adopting the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan, the 2020 Water Shortage Contingency Plan, and an Addendum to the 2015 Urban Water Management Plan.

Pursuant to Water Code Sections 10610 through 10656 of the Urban Water Management Planning Act, every urban water supplier providing water for municipal purposes to more than 3,000 customers or supplying more than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually is required to prepare, adopt and file an Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) every five years, in years ending in zero and five. The 2020 UWMP updates are due to DWR by July 1, 2021.

Per the Act, a UWMP should serve as a comprehensive document that presents an evaluation of a water supplier’s reliability over a long-term (20-25 year) horizon. In particular, the City’s UWMP details how, in response to the changing climatic conditions and regulatory updates of the past five years, the City has been proactively managing its water supply and demand. Most notably, through the excellent conservation efforts of its water customers, the City achieved a 20% reduction in water use by 2020, as mandated by the Water Conservation Act of 2009 (Senate Bill x7-7). The 2020 UWMP also contains all of the elements necessary to comply with the new requirements of the Act as amended since 2015. The California Water Code now requires a standalone 2020 Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP) that describes how the City intends to identify and respond to water shortages going forward. Finally, the City is also required to adopt an Addendum to the existing 2015 UWMP to demonstrate consistency with the 2013 Delta Plan policy requiring water suppliers to document reduced reliance on the Delta as a water supply.

Draft copies of the 2020 UWMP, 2020 WSCP, and Addendum to the 2015 UWMP will be available for review on the City website (http://www.san-clemente.org) in advance of the Public Hearing. Persons with comments, questions or requests to review hard copies of the subject documents may contact the City’s Utilities Director, David Rebensdorf at (949) 366-1553 or by email at RebensdorfD@san-clemente.org. If you challenge this item in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of San Clemente at, or prior to, the public hearing.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that said Public Hearing will be held at the meeting of the City Council on June 15, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. at the Community Center located at 100 N. Calle Seville, San Clemente.

JOANNE BAADE

City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Council