The Water Replenishment District

Engineering Survey and Report 2012

WRD's 2012 Engineering and Survey Report documents the past, current, and ensuing year groundwater conditions in the Central Basin and West Coast Basin ("CBWCB").

The report contains information on groundwater production, annual and accumulated overdraft, water levels, quantity, source, and cost of replenishment water, and a discussion of necessary projects and programs to protect and preserve the groundwater resources of the basins.

The ESR provides necessary information to justify the setting of a replenishment assessment ("RA") for the ensuing fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) to purchase replenishment water and to fund projects and programs related to groundwater replenishment and groundwater quality over the water year (October 1 – September 30).

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WRD Stories

WRD Garners Top North America Government Finance Officers Association Award

The Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) has received notification by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) that it was awarded GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for its fiscal year 2011-12 budget.

This award is the highest recognition in governmental budgeting from the GFOA and represents a significant new award for WRD.

In order to receive this prestigious budget award, WRD satisfied nationally recognized guidelines for effective budget presentation. These stringent guidelines are designed to assess how well an organization’s budget serves as:

• A policy document
  
• A financial plan
  
• An operations guide
  
• A communications device

Budget documents must be rated “proficient” in all four categories, and the 14 mandatory criteria within those categories, to receive the award.
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WRD Director Katherman: SoCal Water Supply Crisis Necessitates Conservation & Reuse

We can't wait for the State to fix the Sacramento Delta. Our water supply from the Sacramento Delta faces potential catastrophe from even a moderate earthquake. The unreinforced earthen levees built more than 100 years ago to prevent the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers from flooding farms in the Delta would give way to the shaking caused by an earthquake.

Many of the "islands" in the southern portion of the Delta, which consist of spongy peat moss material, have subsided from farming use over a century and are now 20-30 feet below the level of the rivers. A breach in these levees would cause seawater to intrude and contaminate our drinking water supply from the Delta for several years.

We need to take advantage of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to finance the co-equal goals of restoring the Delta ecosystem and providing a conveyance facility under or around the Delta.

However, a new Delta conveyance fix will require a vote in the November General election to approve an $11 Billion Bond measure to be paid back over 30 years by the State's General fund which is facing a $9 Billion deficit next fiscal year. The political challenges for such a bond measure are great in light of Governor's proposed tax increase and anticipated political opposition to the bond measure from environmentalists and Delta landowners. Moreover, completion of a conveyance facility would still be at least a decade away.
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