BOARD OF 'DIRECTORS
SANTA CLARA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT
RESOLUTION NO. 21-68
RESCINDING RESOLUTION 17-43, DECLARING A WATER SHORTAGE
EMERGENCY CONDITION CALLING FOR WATER USE RESTRICTIONS, AND
URGING THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA TO PROCLAIM A LOCAL EMERGENCY WHEREAS, a public hearing was held on June 9, 2021, on the matter of whether the Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) Board of Directors should declare that a water shortage emergency condition exists within Santa Clara County (County); and WHEREAS, notice of said hearing was published on June 2, 2021, in the San Jose Mercury News, a newspaper of general circulation printed and published within the County; and WHEREAS, at said hearing, all persons present were given an opportunity to be heard by the Board; and
WHEREAS, the Board heard and considered public testimony, staff's presentation, and other evidence presented at said hearing; and
WHEREAS, the County is in its second consecutive year of drought, and the County is now in an extreme drought condition according to the United States Drought Monitor; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Water Code Section 350 a "governing body of a distributor of a public water supply, whether publicly or privately owned and including a mutual water company, shall declare a water shortage emergency condition to prevail within the area served by such distributor whenever it finds and determines that the ordinary demands and requirements of water consumers cannot be satisfied without depleting the water supply of the distributor to the extent that there would be insufficient water for human consumption, sanitation, and fire protection"; and
WHEREAS, the Board seeks to conserve the limited water supply of Valley Water for the greatest public benefit with particular regard to public health, fire protection, and domestic use without threatening local land subsidence, by ensuring the conservation of water, by avoiding the waste of water, and to the extent necessary and by reason of the existing water shortage emergency condition, by reducing water use in the County in a manner that is fair and equitable; and
WHEREAS, on March 22, 2021, the California State Water Resources Control Board mailed early warning notices to water rights holders in California; including Valley Water, urging them to plan for potential shortages by reducing water use and adopting practical conservation measures; and
WHEREAS, local watershed runoff was substantially limited in the 2020 and 2021 water years due to extreme dry conditions and Valley Water's current local surface water storage as of June 1 is at 26 percent of the 20-year average; and
WHEREAS, Anderson Reservoir is Valley Water's largest surface water reservoir and holds up to 89,278 acre-feet of water-more than all of Valley Water's other nine surface water reservoirs combined; and
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