August 2016
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City of Morgan Hill
2015 Urban Water Management Plan
2015
City of Morgan Hill
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CHAPTER 5 – BASELINES AND TARGETS
The UWMPA requires that retail agencies provide a description of methods used for calculating
their baseline consumption as well as target water consumption. For the 2015 UWMP, the
agencies are required to show if the 2015 interim water use target was achieved and if the agency
is on track to achieve the 2020 water use target set forth in the 2010 UWMP.
5.1 2010 UWMP BASELINE AND TARGETS
Senate Bill X7-7 (SBX7-7) was approved by the Governor of California on November 10, 2009,
and requires urban water suppliers to set target goals for water conservation. Water suppliers
must meet the “20X2020” goals set forth by Governor Schwarzenegger of reducing per capita
consumption by 20 percent by the year 2020.
The evaluation of a supply source or storage needs for future growth is commonly achieved by
evaluating past water consumption on a per person basis. The future needs of the supply source
can then be evaluated by applying the per capita consumption rate, expressed as gallons per
capita per day (gpcd), to the projected population.
Table 5-1
summarizes the baseline periods
and per capita water use targets determined as part of the SBX7-7 calculations. The City had an
average gpcd of 192 from 1995 to 2000, while the average from 2001 to 2010 remained relatively
flat at approximately 200 gpcd. Conservation efforts were successful in lowering the water
consumption to a per capita water consumption rate of 123 gpcd in the year 2015.
Table 5-1 Baselines and Targets Summary
Baseline
Period
Start Year End Year
Per Capita Water Use
Average
Baseline
2015 Interim
Target
Confirmed 2020
Target
(gpcd)
(gpcd)
(gpcd)
10-15 year
1996
2005
199
179
159
5 Year
2003
2007
205
It should be noted that the Governor of California released Executive Order (EO) B-37-16 on May
9
th
, 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 that those
Order’s remain in effect. As part of this order, the Department of Water Resources (DWR), in
conjunction with the State Water Resources Control Board, must revise urban water use target
framework to develop new targets that build off of the “20x2020” SB X7-7 requirements. The