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San Dieguito Water District board re-adopts state-required shortage plan and approves 2025 Urban Water Management Plan
Summary
The board unanimously readopted its Water Shortage Contingency Plan and approved the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan after staff presentations that described demand projections, supply assumptions and drought stress tests. Staff recommended adoption with no substantive changes; there were no public speakers.
The San Dieguito Water District board unanimously readopted its state-required Water Shortage Contingency Plan and approved the district’s 2025 Urban Water Management Plan at a public hearing on the plans.
Senior engineer Eric Search told the board the Water Shortage Contingency Plan was originally adopted on May 19, 2021, and that state law requires readoption even when there are no changes. "The water shortage contingency plan is required by the state," Search said, and staff recommended the board conduct the public hearing and adopt Resolution No. 2026-06 if the plan was in substantial conformance.
The board opened and closed the public hearing on the shortage plan with no public comment and then moved and seconded approval of staff’s recommendation; the motion carried unanimously.
Search then introduced the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan, saying it covers a 20-year planning horizon through 2045 and is required every five years to confirm that suppliers can meet current and future water needs. Consultant Ariel O'Callaghan of Woodard & Curran presented demand and supply analyses, saying single-family and multifamily customers account for the district’s largest shares of use and describing baseline, single dry year and multiple dry year scenarios.
"So as you see, your single family, multifamily, majority of your water use, 75%," O'Callaghan said, summarizing the sector breakdown used in demand projections.
O'Callaghan and staff described a conservative assumption about Lake Hodges supply in the plan. In response to board questions, staff said the plan currently assumes limited local service water from Lake Hodges through 2035 and does not rely on Lake Hodges supply returning until about 2040. The staff presentation also included a five-year drought stress test with an extreme demand increase scenario to show system resilience.
With no public commenters during the urban plan hearing, a board member moved to approve staff’s recommendation and the board approved adoption of Resolution No. 2026-07 adopting the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan.
The adopted plans will be submitted to the state as required. The board’s record shows the hearings were noticed on the district website and in Coast News.
