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City of Morgan Hill
2015 Urban Water Management Plan
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AB2409 (2010) requires that urban water suppliers define water features that are artificially
supplied with water currently within the service area. These features must be defined in
the water shortage contingency planning section of the report.
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Executive Order (EO) B-37-16 was released on May 9
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, 2016 regarding the on-going
drought conditions that are affecting large portions of the state. EO B-37-16 addresses the
previous Executive Orders from 2014 and 2015, and maintains that those Order’s should
remain in effect. DWR staff indicated that this EO does not impact the 2015 UWMP, but
potential impacts to future UWMPs are mentioned in this report.
1.3 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLANS IN RELATION TO OTHER
PLANNING EFFORTS
In addition to the preparation of the 2015 Urban Water Management Plan, the City is in the
process of updating the Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater System Master Plans. The
preparation of the 2015 UWMP will complement these additional planning efforts, providing
guidance related to water use over the master planning horizon and identify the measures to be
implemented for water conservation that will have an impact on water demands and related sewer
flows. Effort has been made to provide consistency between the water demand projections and
the projected water use for the 2015 UWMP and current master planning updates.
1.4 REPORT ORGANIZATION
This report is organized in accordance with the outline suggested by the Department of Water
Resources for the 2010 Urban Water Management Plans.
Chapter 1 – Introduction and Overview.
This chapter introduces the purpose of the Urban
Water Management Plan (UWMP) and its importance to the City of Morgan Hill as well as
Department of Water Resources.
Chapter 2 – Plan Preparation.
The Urban Water Management Planning Act requires that a
description be provided for the process that was used for the development of the UWMP. This
chapter also includes the coordination and outreach that took place for this UWMP to come to
fruition. Moreover, this chapter lists previous UWMPs prepared for the City of Morgan Hill. The
chapter also documents the milestones for adopting the UWMP and for submitting it to the
Department of Water Resources (DWR).
Chapter 3 – System Description.
The UWMPA requires that a description be provided of the
water purveyor’s service area, and include various aspects of the service area, including: climate,
population, and land use.
Chapter 4 – System Water Use.
The UWMPA requires that the UWMP provides a description of
the current and projected water uses within the purveyor’s service area. In addition to the
description, the UWMP must also quantify the current and projected water uses.