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City of Morgan Hill
Water System Master Plan
Chapter 4 - Existing Domestic Water Facilities.
This chapter provides a description of the City’s
existing domestic water system facilities including the existing wells, pressure zones, distribution
mains, storage reservoirs, and booster pump stations.
Chapter 5 - Water Demands and Supply Characteristics.
This chapter summarizes existing
domestic water demands, identifies potential recycled water demands, and projects the future
domestic water demands.
Chapter 6 - Hydraulic Model Development.
This chapter describes the development and
calibration of the City’s domestic water distribution system hydraulic model. The hydraulic model
was used to evaluate the capacity adequacy of the existing system and to plan its expansion to
service anticipated future growth.
Chapter 7 - Evaluation and Proposed Improvements.
This section presents a summary of the
domestic water system evaluation and identifies improvements needed to mitigate existing
deficiencies, as well as improvements needed to expand the system and service growth.
Chapter 8 - Capital Improvement Program.
This chapter provides a summary of the
recommended domestic water system improvements to mitigate existing capacity deficiencies and
to accommodate anticipated future growth. The chapter also presents the cost criteria and
methodologies for developing the capital improvement program. Finally, a capacity allocation
analysis, usually used for cost sharing purposes, is also included.
1.7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Obtaining the necessary information to successfully complete the analysis presented in this
report, and developing the long term strategy for mitigating the existing system deficiencies and
for accommodating future growth, was accomplished with the strong commitment and very active
input from dedicated team members including:
Karl Bjarke
, Public Works Director/City Engineer
Dan Repp
, Deputy Director of Utility Services
Scott Creer
, Deputy Director for Engineering
John Baty
, Senior Planner
David Gittleson
, Associate Engineer
Mark Rauscher
, Engineering Technician
1.8 UNIT CONVERSIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Engineering units were used in reporting flow rates and volumes pertaining to the design and
operation of various components of the domestic water distribution system. Where it was
necessary to report values in smaller or larger quantities, different sets of units were used to
describe the same parameter. Values reported in one set of units can be converted to another set
of units by applying a multiplication factor. A list of multiplication factors for units used in this