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Mountain View council approves amendment to San Francisco water agreement and new drought allocation plan
Summary
The council unanimously approved an amendment to the San Francisco Water Supply Agreement (WSA) to reset minimum purchase quantities and adopted a Tier 2 drought allocation plan allocating supplies among wholesale customers, aiming to avoid future charges for unused water and better support conservation and local supplies.
The Mountain View City Council unanimously approved amendments on June 24 to its San Francisco water supply agreement and a related Tier 2 drought allocation plan, actions city staff said will reduce future charges for unused water and better align wholesale purchase obligations with local conservation and alternative supplies.
City Water Resources Manager Elizabeth Flegel told the council the recommended package would reset minimum purchase quantities (MPQs) for agencies that have a secondary imported supply, allow agencies to ease back into MPQs after drought years and create a collective waiver when aggregate usage across the minimum-purchase agencies exceeds the total MPQs. “These changes are expected to…
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