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UWM Plan - Municipal Water District of Orange County

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Section 7<br />

Future <strong>Water</strong> Supply Projects and Programs<br />

To accommodate long-term population and economic growth in Southern California, and<br />

to protect against uncertainty and more extreme variability in natural water supply, as<br />

well as development and depletion <strong>of</strong> water resources outside <strong>of</strong> Southern California,<br />

continuing regional and local efforts in water resource management and supply<br />

development will be necessary. Application <strong>of</strong> desalination technology is increasingly<br />

being recognized as one important supply component to develop new sustainable water<br />

supplies and to bolster water system reliability. Overall supply shortage risks from<br />

drought, regulatory constraints on existing supplies and emergency outages can be<br />

lessened with a diversified and disaggregated water supply portfolio that incorporates<br />

appropriate desalination projects. The different opportunities for desalinated water in<br />

MWDOC’s service area are shown in Table 7-2.<br />

In <strong>Orange</strong> <strong>County</strong>, there are three proposed ocean desalination projects that could serve<br />

MWDOC and its member agencies with additional water supply. These are the<br />

Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Project, the South <strong>Orange</strong> Coastal Ocean<br />

Desalination Project, and the Camp Pendleton Seawater Desalination Project.<br />

Table 7-2: Opportunities for Desalinated <strong>Water</strong><br />

Sources <strong>of</strong> <strong>Water</strong><br />

Check if Yes<br />

Ocean <strong>Water</strong><br />

Brackish Ocean <strong>Water</strong><br />

Brackish Groundwater<br />

X<br />

X<br />

X<br />

7.4.1. Groundwater Desalination<br />

Metropolitan instituted its Groundwater Recovery Program in 1991 to provide financial<br />

incentives (up to $250 per acre-foot) to local agencies to develop brackish groundwater<br />

impaired from either natural causes or from agricultural drainage. The purpose <strong>of</strong> the<br />

program was to increase utilization <strong>of</strong> groundwater storage within the region for firm<br />

local production, conjunctive use storage, and drought supply. In MWDOC’s service<br />

area, five groundwater recovery brackish water projects have contracts with<br />

Metropolitan.<br />

Mesa Colored <strong>Water</strong> Treatment Facility Expansion - The Colored <strong>Water</strong> Treatment<br />

Facility (CWTF) is owned and operated by Mesa Consolidated <strong>Water</strong> <strong>District</strong> (Mesa).<br />

The CWTF pumps colored water from a deep colored water aquifer and removes the<br />

color using ozone treatment and biological filtration. Due to the increase in color and<br />

bromide in the source water, Mesa has embarked on a project to replace the ozone and<br />

biological filtration treatment with nan<strong>of</strong>iltration membrane treatment and increase the<br />

capacity from 5.8 MGD to 8.6 MGD. Design and construction <strong>of</strong> the technology<br />

<strong>Municipal</strong> <strong>Water</strong> <strong>District</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Orange</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />

2010 Regional Urban <strong>Water</strong> Management <strong>Plan</strong><br />

Final<br />

7-5

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