Drought planning: resiliency measures.

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Drought Planning: Resiliency Measures

This law allows small water suppliers and schools with fewer than 3,000 service connections to avoid certain drought resiliency measures if they cannot get state funding or raise local rates.

What This Bill Does

• Exempts small water suppliers and nontransient noncommunity water systems that are schools from metering each service connection and monitoring for water loss due to leakages.
• Requires these exempted water systems to be in the process of applying for state funding, determined ineligible for it, or unable to get it because there is no available funding.
• Requires these exempted water systems to prove that raising local rates is not a feasible option.

Who It Names or Affects

• Small water suppliers with fewer than 3,000 service connections
• Nontransient noncommunity water systems that are schools

Terms To Know

Drought resiliency measures

Steps taken to prepare for and manage drought conditions, such as metering water usage and monitoring for leaks.

Nontransient noncommunity water system

A public water system that regularly serves at least 25 of the same people over six months or more, like a school.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify an effective date.
• It is unclear how many small water suppliers and schools will qualify for this exemption.

Official Summary Text

SB 463, as amended, Alvarado-Gil.
Drought planning: resiliency measures.
Existing law requires small water suppliers, defined for purposes of these provisions to mean a community water system serving 15 to 2,999 service connections, inclusive, and that provides less than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually, and nontransient noncommunity water systems that are schools to implement specified drought resiliency measures, including, among other things, no later than January 1, 2032,
meter
metering
each service connection and
monitor
monitoring
for water loss due to leakages.
This bill would exempt a
water district with fewer than 500 service connections
small water supplier or nontransient noncommunity water system
from
metering each service connection and monitoring for water loss due to leakages.
these metering and monitoring requirements if it (1) is in the process of applying for state funding, has been determined to be ineligible for state funding, or is not able to obtain state funding because there is no funding available in applicable state programs, and (2) has made a finding that increasing its rates to raise revenue locally is not a feasible option.

Current Bill Text

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