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All About EBMUD he East Bay Municipal Utility District is a California public Tutility that supplies high-quality drinking water, generates renewable To manage the natural resources with which the District energy, and provides pollution prevention and wastewater treatment services that is entrusted; to provide reliable, high quality water and protect San Francisco Bay. EBMUD serves many communities on wastewater services at fair and reasonable rates for the the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay. The District’s water system supplies people of the East Bay; and to preserve and protect 1.3 million customers and spans a 332-square-mile area in Alameda and the environment for future generations. Contra Costa counties, extending from –EBMUD Mission Statement Crockett in the north, southward to San Lorenzo, eastward from San Francisco Bay to Walnut Creek, and south Cherryland, Crockett, Diablo, El Sobrante, Kensington, and part of Richmond. through the San Ramon Valley. Fairview, Kensington, North Richmond, EBMUD was formed under the EBMUD’s water system serves Oleum, Rodeo, San Lorenzo and Selby. California Municipal Utility District Act, customers in 20 incorporated and 15 The wastewater service area is which permits formation of multi-purpose unincorporated communities. Places smaller, covering an 88-square-mile government agencies to provide public served include the cities and towns of area of Alameda and Contra Costa services on a regional basis. In 1923, Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Danville, counties along the Bay’s east shore, voters elected to create EBMUD to El Cerrito, Emeryville, part of Hayward, extending from Richmond in the north provide regional water service. In 1944, Hercules, Lafayette, Moraga, Oakland, to Oakland in the south. It serves voters elected to authorize EBMUD to Orinda, Piedmont, Pinole, part of Pleasant 650,000 customers. The service area provide regional wastewater treatment. Hill, Richmond, San Leandro, San Pablo, includes the cities of Alameda, Albany, EBMUD is led by a Board of Directors San Ramon, part of Walnut Creek and the Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and whose seven members are publicly unincorporated communities of Alamo, Piedmont, and the Stege Sanitary elected from wards (areas of comparable Ashland, Blackhawk, Castro Valley, District, which includes El Cerrito, size) within the water service area. 80 Selby Crockett 780 SUISUN BAY EBMUD Oleum Mokelumne Aqueducts SAN PABLO Rodeo 80 BAY 4 Service Area 680 4 Pinole Hercules El 242 Sobrante San North Pablo San Pleasant Richmond Pablo Hill Reservoir 580 Richmond 680 El Cerrito Briones Kensington Reservoir Transmission Lines Orinda Walnut Creek Water Service Area Albany 24 Lafayette Wastewater Service Area Lafayette Berkeley Reservoir 680 Water Sources 2 Alamo Emeryville Moraga Water Use and Distribution 5 80 880 SAN FRANCISCO BAY Piedmont 13 Diablo Ta ble of 980 Danville Blackhawk Oakland Upper Renewable Energy 7 San 580 San Leandro Francisco Reservoir San Contents Water Quality 8 Alameda Ramon Resource Management and Protection 10 Chabot Reservoir The Wastewater System 12 580 San Map not Castro 580 Leandro to Scale 880 Ashland Valley Budget, Rates and Workforce 16 San Cherryland Fairview Lorenzo Hayward Camanche Camanche Dam, ten miles downstream from Pardee on Sacramento River the Mokelumne, works in tandem with Pardee. It stores water to meet the Supply needs of fisheries, riparian habitat and EBMUD has a contract with the Wa t e r U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for a downstream water-rights holders, and it provides flood control. Camanche supplemental water supply because Sources during times of drought or emergency, Reservoir has a capacity of 417,120 acre-feet of water. EBMUD’s Mokelumne River supply can not EBMUD’s primary water supply is from the Mokelumne meet customer needs. That supplemental supply comes from the Sacramento River. River. Local runoff to East Bay reservoirs supplements Local/Emergency EBMUD has rights to up to 100 MGD from the Sacramento River in dry years. that supply, and Sacramento River water is available Supply When needed, the water will be conveyed Local runoff is stored in several East through the Freeport Regional Water when needed during dry years. By helping customers Bay reservoirs for treatment and Facility (shown at right), jointly owned delivery to customers and to assure by EBMUD and Sacramento County. conserve and use recycled water, EBMUD stretches emergency supplies are available (Sacramento County can draw up to locally. In a year of normal precipitation, 85 MGD year round.) EBMUD will draw existing supplies. EBMUD uses an average of 21 million water from the Freeport facility through gallons per day (MGD) of water from a pipeline east to the Folsom South Mokelumne Water Rights EBMUD local watershed runoff. In dry years, Canal and then move the supplies Central Sierra Supply has water rights for up to 325 million enough water can be lost through south to the Mokelumne aqueducts On average, 90 percent of the water gallons (997 acre-feet) daily from the evaporation to completely offset any into EBMUD’s system. used by EBMUD comes from the Mokelumne River, a total of 364,000 water gained from local runoff. EBMUD protected watershed of the Mokelumne acre-feet per year. EBMUD stores water can store up to 151,670 acre-feet of LakeLake Tahoe Tahoe 5 99 NV River. The watershed is on the western water in the East Bay reservoirs. 89 in Pardee and Camanche Reservoirs, 50 CA slope of the Sierra Nevada and collects EBMUD typically maintains a six-month both in the Mokelumne River watershed. 49 melted snow from Alpine, Amador emergency supply in local reservoirs. EBMUD Water Sources Pardee Dam collects water from and Calaveras counties. This area is Pardee Also, a local groundwater injection 578 square miles of the Mokelumne Mokelumne River Water 88 primarily national forest, EBMUD- well (Bayside) is being used to move 50 watershed in Pardee Reservoir near Transmission Roseville owned lands and other undeveloped some water into a deep underground 89 the town of Valley Springs. EBMUD is lands little affected by human activity. aquifer for storage so it can be treated Sacramento River Water licensed to store 209,950 acre-feet per Transmission 5 80 50 49 and used during droughts, adding Mokelumne Watershed The year of water supply in Pardee Reservoir. 4 another one million gallons per day Bayside Groundwater Mokelumne River drains over 627 square The reservoir has a capacity of 197,950 Davis 88 of supplemental supply. Local Reservoirs Sacramento miles of mountains and foothills above acre-feet, which is equivalent to a 505 Freeport Regional Water Facility Camanche Dam. The watershed elevation ten-month supply for EBMUD’s Mokelumne River ranges from 235 feet at the dam to Folsom 4 1.3 million water customers. 88 Watershed South Canal 10,000 feet in the headwater region. 5 Vacaville Napa Sacramento – Pardee Reservoir San Joaquin Delta 99 Camanche Reservoir 80 EBMUD Mokelumne River 12 680 Fish Hatchery and the Delta Vallejo 49 ts The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta provides habitat for more than 55 fish uc Yosemite EB ed National Park MU qu species and 750 plant and wildlife species. It also provides water to roughly D A 4 101 26 two-thirds of California’s population, is a vital recreation resource and is critical Mokelumne to commercial fisheries, agriculture and an extensive network of infrastructure. 80 Stockton 4 Richmond 4 EBMUD’s Mokelumne Aqueducts cross 15 miles of low-lying Delta islands. 4 Between 1995 and 2012, EBMUD invested $80 million in the Delta: $39 million 24 EBMUD in aqueduct seismic improvements, $20 million in corrosion protection for the Oakland Service Area 120 aqueducts, $20 million to support Delta reclamation districts’ efforts to 99 San Francisco 205 49 improve levees, and $1 million for other Delta improvements. More will be 580 Tracy 580 Dublin 5 invested in the coming years, including another $7 million in aqueduct Modesto 680 corrosion protection and additional funding support for levee improvements. Hayward EBMUD’s ability to sustain a healthy salmon run from the Mokelumne 880 Map not 5 to Scale River also makes it a direct stakeholder in the Delta, as the fish pass 101 through the Delta to reach the sea and, years later, return from the sea. 2 3 EBMUD works with business Water Conservation to encourage water use efficiency EBMUD’s plan for assuring adequate and awards certificates that can future water supplies relies heavily on be publicly displayed for three efficient water use by customers. years to those that implement water-efficient best practices. Wa t e r Use Conservation Planning EBMUD has sponsored conservation programs since The 27 businesses recognized in 2011-12 for water efficiency and the 1970s, and adopted its first water conservation master plan in 1994 to improvements reduced their guide a comprehensive program for water annual water demand by more education, conservation assistance and than 18.6 million gallons incentives. The plan was updated in —enough water to serve Distribution 2011. EBMUD promotes cost-effective approximately 189 households Water use has been relatively constant over forty and sustained water savings by testing for an entire year. water conservation products and focusing on those that best help customers save years despite a 29 percent increase in accounts. EBMUD water, energy and money. Recycled Water Partners Water Recycling partners with other public agencies to Water use dipped significantly during Conservation Savings Since 1995, EBMUD has used recycled water for provide recycled water throughout its Water Use water shortage emergencies (declared customers have been saving an estimated almost 40 years for industrial processes service area. Partners include the West The single-family residential customer by the Board of Directors) in calendar 28 MGD. Conservation programs ensure and irrigation at the wastewater County Wastewater District for Richmond category is the largest water user years 1976-78, 1987-94 and 2007- that EBMUD will meet requirements of treatment plant located at the foot projects, the City of San Leandro for category, followed by multi-family 2010.
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