Hanford City Council
August 6, 2024

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3.1.4 Socioeconomic Conditions
Based on data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey, the City of Hanford has a median household income of approximately $62,400 per year and a per capita income of approximately $27,400 per year as of 2019. Approximately 19% of the population has a bachelor’s degree or higher, and 80% have a high school diploma or higher. Approximately 15.3% of the population lives below the poverty line.

According to population and housing statistics prepared by the California Department of Finance, the City of Hanford has an average household occupancy of 2.96 people per household.

Approximately 77% of the current residential units are single family residences, with the other 23% reflecting multiple family dwelling units. The 2020 residential vacancy rate is approximately

3.1%.

According to U.S. Census American Community Survey, the primary job sectors within the City are educational and health services, retail, and agricultural production. The most recent unemployment rate was listed as 8.9%.

3.2 CLIMATE DATA
The following sections includes a description of the City’s historical climate data as well as a summary of the potential impacts of climate change.

3.2.1 Historic Climate Data
Yearly extremes in temperature vary, with the peak high rising to above 100 °F and winter lows receding to the 20 °F range. The City has a historical average annual rainfall of approximately 8.4 inches, with the majority of the rainfall occurring from November to April. According to the California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS), the approximate average annual evapotranspiration (Eto) for the City is 61.6 inches. Average climate data is included in Table 3-1.

Table 3-1 Average Climate Data
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
Rainfall
(inches) 1.6 1.5 1.5 0.8 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.8 1.2 8.4 Max. Daily
Temp. (°F) 54.7 61.9 67.5 74.9 83.6 91.4 97.8 96.1 90.5 80.0 66.2 55.4 76.7 Min. Daily
Temp. (°F) 35.2 38.6 42.1 46.4 52.5 58.3 62.5 60.4 55.5 47.4 38.8 34.6 47.7 Average
ETo
(inches)

1.3 2.2 4.2 6.1 8.1 9.0 9.0 8.1 6.1 4.2 2.2 1.2 61.6

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Historical rainfall in the city is shown in Figure 3-5 and has ranged from 0.89 inches in 1984 to

15.57 inches in 1983.
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Figure 3-5 Historical Annual Rainfall

3.2.2 Climate Change
As part of the 2020 UWMP update, the California Water Code requires urban water suppliers to provide a general description of the potential effect of climate change within the service area.

Based on the City’s location and current climate, the most likely changes are related to increasing average temperature, intensifying storm events, and periods of extended drought. Other effects, such as decreasing snowpack or rising sea levels, do not have a direct impact on the City’s water demand or supply. Changes in annual precipitation and temperature could have an impact on the City’s overall water use as well as available supply volumes. 0 2
4 6
8 10
12 14
16 18
195019521954195619581960196219641966196819701972197419761978198019821984198619881990199219941996199820002002200420062008201020122014201620182020 Precipitation (inches)
Year

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3.3 SERVICE AREA POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS
The City is a growing community with an estimated 2020 population of 59,178. According to the California Department of Finance (DOF), which accounts for approximately 39 percent of the population of Kings County. Additionally, the city also supplies domestic water to 651 accounts out of the City limit, which are equaled to 2,148 population. Therefore, the City’s water system serves a total population of 61,326. The City has an average historical growth rate of approximately 0.9% per year, which is used to project populations through the year 2045. The current and projected service area populations are summarized in Table 3-2.

According to 2019 United States Census Bureau’s data, the City is comprised of predominantly Hispanic (49.9%) and white (38.9%) ethnicities, with the remaining population comprised of, Black or African American (4.0%), American Indian and Alaska Native (0.4%), and Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (0.2%), Hispanic or Latino (50.4%), with the rest more than one race or other race.

Table 3-2 Population - Current and Projected
2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045
61,326 64,227 67,264 70,444 73,776 77,265
Notes:

1. Projected population assumes historical average annual growth of 0.9%.

2. Based on Department of Finance E-5 Table, City of Hanford’s 2020 population was 59,178.

3. City of Hanford also supplied 651 accounts outside of the city limit, which included 2,148 residents.

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4.0 CHAPTER 4 – SYSTEM WATER USE
This chapter provides a description of the current and projected water uses within the City’s service area. Additionally, a description of non-potable water use is provided. Water demands are projected through the year 2045.

4.1 NON-POTABLE VERSUS POTABLE WATER USE
The California State Water Code requires documentation of water use within the City’s service area for potable, recycled, and raw water demands, as applicable. While the City does not provide any deliveries of raw water, treated wastewater effluent is used to irrigate crops on privately owned land and is discussed in more detail in Chapter 6. The remaining sections within this chapter summarize the historical and projected water use. The water use projection also includes preliminary estimation for recycled water demands, based on potable water demand and returnto-sewer ratio.

4.2 WATER USES BY SECTOR
This section documents the historical and projected water use as well as the maximum day demand.

Law
10631. (d) (1) For an urban retail water supplier, quantify, to the extent records are available, past and current water use, over the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a), and projected water use, based upon information developed pursuant to subdivision (a), identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following:
(A) Single-family residential.
(B) Multifamily.
(C) Commercial.
(D) Industrial.
(E) Institutional and governmental.
(F) Landscape.
(G) Sales to other agencies.
(H) Saline water intrusion barriers, groundwater recharge, or conjunctive use, or any combination thereof.
(I) Agricultural.
(J) Distribution system water loss.
(2) The water use projections shall be in the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a).

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4.2.1 Historical Water Use
The City currently provides domestic water to residential, commercial, industrial and institutional customers within the City limits. At the time of preparation of the 2020 UWMP, the City had recorded metered water deliveries to 17,965 accounts. The total amount of metered water delivered in 2020 was 10,911 AF, which does not account for an additional 803 AF of unmetered use and water loss. The City’s gross water use, 11,714 AF, is summarized in Table 4-1.

Table 4-1 Demands for Potable and Non-Potable Water – Actual Use Type
Metered
Delivered
Volume
(AF)
Single Family 6,903
Multi-Family 1,002
Commercial1 1,005
Industrial 334
Landscape 750
Other 854
Other2 62
Losses 803
Total 11,714
Notes

1. Includes Commercial and institutional use
Types

2. Constriction Billing
Figure 4-1 displays water use compared to population, which shows decreases in water use following droughts in 2007-2010 and 2013-2015 despite a rising population during the time period.

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Figure 4-1 Historical Water Use and Population

4.2.2 Projected Water Use
Table 4-2 and Table 4-3, found on the following page, summarize the potable water demand projection through the year 2045. To calculate the projected potable water demand through the UWMP planning horizon of 2045, the City’s 2020 urban water use target of 179 gallons per capita per day (gpcd) was applied to the projected population set forth in the 2035 General Plan. The projected demands were then reduced by five percent to account for future water use reductions of up to five percent due to active water savings, as described in more detail in Section 4.4. For conservative planning purposes, the projected water loss amount was estimated as a percentage of other potable water uses based on historical water loss audit information. Table descriptions are as follows:
• Table 4-2 summarizes the projected City-wide water demand by water use type. 10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
5,000
7,000
9,000
11,000
13,000
15,000
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
Population
Water Use (acre-feet)
Year
Water Use (acre-feet) - Normal Water Use (acre-feet) - Drought Population

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• Table 4-3 summarizes the total projected water demand.

Table 4-2 Use for Potable and Non-Potable Water - Projected Use Type
Projected Water Use
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
Single Family 6,849 7,173 7,512 7,868 8,240
Multi-Family 994 1,041 1,090 1,142 1,196
Commercial1 997 1,044 1,093 1,145 1,199
Industrial 332 347 364 381 399
Landscape 744 780 817 855 896
Other 848 888 930 974 1,020
Other2 62 65 68 71 74
Losses 797 834 874 915 959
Total 11,623 12,172 12,748 13,351 13,982
Notes:

1. Includes Commercial and Institutional use types

2. Construction Billing
Table 4-3 Total Water Use (Potable and Non-Potable)
Demand Type
Demand
2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
Potable and Raw
Water 11,714 11,623 12,172 12,748 13,351 13,982
Total 11,714 11,623 12,172 12,748 13,351 13,982

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4.2.3 Maximum Day Demand
Maximum Day Demand is a significant demand condition on the water supply system. This condition is defined as the maximum 24-hour use period in the year. Peaking factors are commonly used as a way of simulating the maximum day demand for future demand scenarios.

This multiplier is assessed to the average day demand, and is commonly in the order of 2 to 2.5 times greater than the average day demand. The September 2017 City Water System Master Plan specified a maximum day demand peaking factor of 1.75 for the main pressure zone and a factor of 2 for the industrial park pressure zone.

4.3 DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WATER LOSSES
Law
As part of the 2020 UWMP update, urban water suppliers are required to quantify the previous five years’ distribution system water losses in a manner consistent with the American Water Works Association (AWWA) water system balance methodology. The City has completed the required water loss audit worksheet in accordance with the DWR guidelines for the years 2016- 2019, while the audit for 2020 will be completed before the October 2021 deadline. Table 4-4 documents the estimated water loss volume for 2020 based on submitted Water Loss Audits and a comparison of available production and consumption records. 10631 (d)(1) For an urban retail water supplier, quantify, to the extent records are available, past and current water use, over the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a), and projected water use, based upon information developed pursuant to subdivision (a), identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following…
(J) Distribution system water loss
(3)(A) The distribution system water loss shall be quantified for each of the five years preceding the plan update, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to Section (B) The distribution system water loss quantification shall be reported in accordance with a worksheet approved or developed by the department through a public process.

The water loss quantification worksheet shall be based on the water system balance methodology developed by the American Water Works Association. (C) In the plan due July 1, 2021, and in each update thereafter, data shall be included to show whether the urban retail water supplier met the distribution loss standards enacted by the board pursuant to Section 10608.34.

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Table 4-4 Last Five Years of Water Loss Audit Reporting Reporting Period Start
Date
Volume of Water Loss
(AF)
January 2016 1,144
January 2017 1,528
January 2018 1,742
January 2019 732
January 2020 803
Note: 2020 water loss was estimated by a comparison of
groundwater wells production and billed consumption
record.

4.4 ESTIMATING FUTURE WATER SAVINGS
Law
The City’s projected water demands include estimated future water savings from active conservation activities (Table 4-5). These estimated water savings reflect future ongoing water use reductions and do not include short-term demand reductions achieved through the implementation of the City’s Water Shortage Contingency Plan.

4.4.1 Active Conservation Program Savings
Active conservation is achieved through activities and programs the City implements as part of its water conservation program. The City’s water conservation programs and demand management measures are discussed in detail in Chapter 9 – Demand Management Measures. For planning purposes, it is assumed that the City will achieve up to an additional five percent reduction in 10631 (d)(4) (A) Water use projections, where available, shall display and account for the water savings estimated to result from adopted codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans identified by the urban water supplier, as applicable to the service area.
(B) To the extent that an urban water supplier reports the information described in subparagraph (A), an urban water supplier shall do both of the following:
(i) Provide citations of the various codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans utilized in making the projections. (ii) Indicate the extent that the water use projections consider savings from codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans. Water use projections that do not account for these water savings shall be noted of that fact.

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water use as a result of active water savings. This reduction is incorporated in the demand projections shown in Table 4-2 and Table 4-3.

4.4.2 Passive Water Savings
Passive water savings include water use reduction that results from codes, standards, ordinances, and other plans. These various sources of water savings typically result from state or regional requirements or guidelines, which are then implemented by the City. Examples of these codes and ordinances are as follows:
• Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO): In 2015 DWR was tasked with updating the MWELO to increase water efficiency standards for new and retrofitted landscapes. This includes the encouragement the use of more efficient irrigation systems, graywater usage, and onsite storm water capture.
• California Energy Commission Title 20: This includes appliance standards for toilets, urinals, faucets, and showerheads. This standard impacts both new construction and replacement fixtures in existing homes.
• CALGreen Building Code: The code requires residential and non-residential water efficiency and conservation measures for new buildings and structures.

Passive water savings typically contribute less to water use reductions than active water conservation programs. Therefore, at this time, reductions from passive water savings are not included in the City’s demand projections.

Table 4-5 Inclusion in Water Use Projections
Are Future Water Savings
Included in Projections? Yes
Are Lower Income Residential
Demands Included In Projections? Yes

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4.5 WATER USE FOR LOWER INCOME HOUSEHOLDS
Law
SB 1087 (Florez, 2005) amended the UWMPA to require urban water suppliers to include single family and multi-family residential units for lower income households as identified by the City, County, or combination of both within the service area of the provider. In the 2015 UWMP, the low-income projected water demands were calculated based on the 2015 Draft Kings County 2016-2024 Housing Element, which identified approximately 35 percent of households as low income. According to the 2016 Adopted Kings County 2016-2024 Housing Element, approximately 35 percent of households are considered low income. As indicated by Table 4-5, the low-income water demands are included in the total water demand projection that is summarized in Table 4-2.

4.6 CLIMATE CHANGE
Based on the City’s location and current climate, the most likely changes in climate are related to increasing average temperature, intensifying storm events, and periods of extended drought.

While the precise effects of climate change on water demand remain uncertain, it is expected that water demands will be affected by increased temperatures and periods of extended drought.

Increases in outdoor water use are expected as temperatures increase. 10631.1 (a) The water use projections required by Section 10631 shall include projected water use for single-family and multifamily residential housing needed for lower income households, as defined in Section 50079.5 of the Health and Safety Code, as identified in the housing element of any city, county, or city and county in the service area of the supplier.

California Health and Safety Code 50079.5
(a) “Lower income households” means persons and families whose income does not exceed the qualifying limits for lower income families…In the event the federal standards are discontinued, the department shall, by regulation, establish income limits for lower income households for all geographic areas of the state at 80 percent of area median income, adjusted for family size and revised annually.

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5.0 CHAPTER 5 – BASELINES AND TARGETS
Senate Bill X7-7 (SBX7-7) was approved by the Governor of California on November 10, 2009, This Senate Bill required urban water suppliers to set target goals for water conservation, which were to be achieved by the year 2020. These goals were referred to as the “20X2020” goals and included reducing per capita consumption by 20 percent by the year 2020. This chapter summarizes the methods used to estimate the target water use. As part of the 2020 UWMP update, this chapter evaluates if the City achieved the required water use reduction target.

Due to ongoing water conservation policies and practices within the City’s service area the 2020 per capita water demand target has been achieved.

5.1 2010 UWMP BASELINE AND TARGETS
The evaluation of a supply source or storage needs for future growth is commonly achieved by evaluating past water consumption on a per person basis. The future needs of the supply source can then be evaluated by applying the per capita consumption rate, expressed as gallons per capita per day (gpcd), to the projected population. Table 5-1 summarizes the baseline periods and per capita water use targets determined as part of the SBX7-7 calculations. The City had an average gpcd of 216 from 1995 to 2000, while the average from 2001 to 2010 remained relatively flat at approximately 214 gpcd. Conservation efforts were successful in lowering the water consumption to a per capita water consumption rate of 188 gpcd in the year 2015, and 171 gpcd in the year of 2020.

Table 5-1 Baselines and Targets Summary
Baseline
Period Start Year End Year
Per Capita Water Use
Average
Baseline
Confirmed
2020 Target
(gpcd) (gpcd)
10-15 year 1995 2004 215
179
5 Year 2006 2010 215

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5.3 BASELINE PERIODS
This section discusses the baseline periods used in the UWMP. The baseline periods discussed in this section are consistent with the 2015 UWMP.

5.3.1 Determination of the 10-15 Year Baseline Period (Baseline GPCD) Law
To adequately project future water use, SBX7-7 must be considered with the appropriate reductions. As part of the new requirements for reductions in water use, a range in years needs to be selected for calculating the base daily (historical) per capita water use.

SBX7-7 allows the selection of either 10 or 15 years as a base period for calculating the average consumption per capita. If the recycled water use exceeds 10 percent of potable water production, a 15-year base period is allowed. Otherwise, a 10-year base period should be used. Additionally, a 5-year base period is to be identified for interim target projections.

The 10- to 15-year base period must end between December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2010; and the 5-year base period must end between December 31, 2007 and December 31, 2010.

The City’s calculations for the base periods are documented on the following page in SBX7-7 Table 1. Since the recycled water usage in 2008 did not account for more than 10 percent of the total potable water production, the City must use the 10-year baseline period. The 10-year base period is selected based on the highest average per capita water use in any 10-year period within the DWR guidelines. The 2020 UWMP uses baseline periods consistent with 2015 UWMP, where the 10-year baseline period is defined as1995 to 2004.
10608.12 (b) “Base daily per capita water use” means any of the following:
(1) The urban retail water supplier’s estimate of its average gross water use, reported in gallons per capita per day and calculated over a continuous 10-year period ending no earlier than December 31, 2004, and no later than December 31, 2010.
(2) For an urban retail water supplier that meets at least 10 percent of its measure retail water demand through recycled water that is delivered within the service area of an urban retail water supplier or its urban wholesale water supplier, the urban retail water supplier may extend the calculation described in paragraph (1) up to an additional five years to a maximum of a continuous 15-year period ending no earlier than December 31, 2004 and no later than December 31, 2010.

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SBX7-7 Table 1 Baseline Period Ranges
Baseline Parameter Value Units
10- to 15-year
baseline period
2008 total water deliveries 12,741 AF
2008 total volume of delivered recycled water 0 AF
2008 recycled water as a percent of total
deliveries 0.00% %
Number of years in baseline period 10 Years
Year beginning baseline period range 1995
Year ending baseline period range 2004
5-year
baseline period
Number of years in baseline period 5 Years
Year beginning baseline period range 2006
Year ending baseline period range 2010

5.3.2 Determination of the 5-year Baseline Period (Target Confirmation) Law
In order to confirm that the calculated 2020 Urban Water Use target meets the minimum water use reduction requirements, water use must also be calculated over a 5-year baseline period. The 2010 and 2015 UWMP selected a 5-year range of 2006-2010, and this range is not updated as part of the 2020 UWMP.
10608.12 (b).
(3) For the purposes of Section 10608.22, the urban retail water supplier’s estimate of its average gross water use, reported in gallons per capita per day and calculated over a continuous five-year period ending no earlier than December 31, 2007, and no later than December 31, 2010.

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5.4 SERVICE AREA POPULATION
Law
California DOF population estimates were used to determine historical populations as part of the 10-year average per capita water use, as indicated on SBX7-7 Table 2. The baseline service area population is summarized on the following page in SBX7-7 Table 3. This population over the baseline period is used in the calculation of the baseline period average per capita water use. The City is a growing community with an estimated 2020 population of 59,178, according to the California Department of Finance (DOF). Additionally, the city also supplies domestic water to 651 accounts out of the City limit, which are equaled to 2,148 population. Therefore, the City’s water system serves a total population of 61,326.

SBX7-7 Table 2 Method for Population Estimates
Method Used to Determine Population

1. Department of Finance (DOF)
DOF Table E-8 (1990 - 2000) and (2000-2010) and
DOF Table E-5 (2011 - 2020)

2. Persons-per-Connection Method

3. DWR Population Tool

4. Other
10608.20 (e) An urban retail water supplier shall include in its urban water management plan due in 2010…the baseline daily per capita water use, …along with the bases for determining those estimates, including references to supporting data. (f) When calculating per capita values for the purposes of this chapter, an urban retail water supplier shall determine population using federal, state, and local population reports and projections.
10644 (a)(2) The plan…shall include any standardized forms, tables, or displays specified by the department

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SBX7-7 Table 3 Service Area Population
Year Population
10 to 15 Year Baseline Population
Year 1 1995 37,400
Year 2 1996 38,150
Year 3 1997 39,300
Year 4 1998 39,900
Year 5 1999 40,350
Year 6 2000 41,450
Year 7 2001 42,462
Year 8 2002 43,869
Year 9 2003 44,466
Year 10 2004 46,096
5 Year Baseline Population
Year 1 2006 48,920
Year 2 2007 50,534
Year 3 2008 51,922
Year 4 2009 52,970
Year 5 2010 53,967
2015 Compliance Year Population
2015 55,337
2020 Compliance Year Population
2020 61,326

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5.5 GROSS WATER USE
Law
In order to determine the baseline per capita water use, gross water use entering the distribution system of the supplier must be determined for each year within the baseline period. There are a number of exclusions taken into consideration when determining the annual gross water use, including recycled water delivered in the service area; water volume placed into long term storage; water conveyed for use by another urban water supplier; water delivered; with certain exceptions, for agricultural use, and industrial water use if the total industrial use is greater than or equal to 12% of gross water use.

Based on historical production reports, and consistent with the 2015 UWMP, there are no exceptions to be taken into consideration when calculating the City’s gross water use. The City’s historical gross water use is summarized on the following page in SBX7-7 Table 4, with the gross water use in the 2020 compliance year equal to 11,714 AF. The volume of water entering the distribution system from the City’s groundwater source is summarized, following SBX7-7 Table 4, in SBX7-7 Table 4-A.
10608.12 (g) “Gross Water Use” means the total volume of water, whether treated or untreated, entering the distribution system of an urban retail water supplier, excluding all of the following:
(1) Recycled water that is delivered within the service area of an urban retail water supplier or its urban wholesale water supplier
(2) The net volume of water that the urban retail water supplier places into long term storage
(3) The volume of water the urban retail water supplier conveys for use by another urban water supplier
(4) The volume of water delivered for agricultural use, except as otherwise provided in subdivision (f) of Section 10608.24.

California Code of Regulations Title 23 Division 2 Chapter 5.1 Article Section 596 (a) An urban retail water supplier that has a substantial percentage of industrial water use in its service area is eligible to exclude the process water use of existing industrial water customers from the calculation of its gross water use to avoid the disproportionate burden on another customer section.

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SBX7-7 Table 4 Annual Gross Water Use
Baseline Year
Volume
Into
Distribution
System
Deductions
Annual Gross
Exported Water Use
Water
Change
in Dist.

System
Storage
(+/-)
Indirect
Recycled
Water
Water
Delivered
for
Agricultural
Use
Process
Water
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
10 to 15 Year Baseline - Gross Water Use
Year 1 1995 9,198 9,198
Year 2 1996 9,348 9,348
Year 3 1997 10,379 10,379
Year 4 1998 8,704 8,704
Year 5 1999 9,855 9,855
Year 6 2000 9,649 9,649
Year 7 2001 9,673 9,673
Year 8 2002 10,502 10,502
Year 9 2003 10,784 10,784
Year 10 2004 11,260 11,260
10 - 15 year baseline average gross water use 9,935
5 Year Baseline - Gross Water Use
Year 1 2006 11,613 11,613
Year 2 2007 12,930 12,930
Year 3 2008 12,742 12,742
Year 4 2009 12,792 12,792
Year 5 2010 12,172 12,172
5 year baseline average gross water use 12,450
2015 Compliance Year - Gross Water Use
2015 11,640 2015 gross water use 11,640
2020 Compliance Year - Gross Water Use
2020 11,714 2020 gross water use 11,714

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SBX7-7 Table 4-A Volume Entering Distribution System
Name of Water Source:

Tulare Lake Groundwater Subbasin
The supplier’s own water source
A purchased or imported water source
Baseline Year
Volume Entering
Distribution
System
(AF)
10 to 15 Year Baseline - Water into
Distribution System
Year 1 1995 9,198
Year 2 1996 9,348
Year 3 1997 10,379
Year 4 1998 8,704
Year 5 1999 9,855
Year 6 2000 9,649
Year 7 2001 9,673
Year 8 2002 10,502
Year 9 2003 10,784
Year 10 2004 11,260
5 Year Baseline - Water into Distribution
System
Year 1 2006 11,613
Year 2 2007 12,930
Year 3 2008 12,742
Year 4 2009 12,792
Year 5 2010 12,172
2015 Compliance Year - Water into
Distribution System
2015 11,640
2020 Compliance Year - Water into
Distribution System
2020 11,714

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5.6 BASELINE DAILY PER CAPITA WATER USE
The final baseline calculation is to determine the per capita water use in each baseline year and the average per capita water use over the entire baseline period. Using the baseline period and service area population as described in previous sections, the per capita water use for each year has been calculated as documented on the following page in SBX7-7 Table 5. The maximum and minimum per capita water use over the baseline period respectively are 236 gpcd in 1997 and 195 gpcd in 1998. The average per capita water use over the 10-year baseline period is 215 gpcd. In the following pages, SBX7-7 Table 6 summarizes the 10-year baseline per capita water use, the 5-year baseline per capita water use, and the 2020 compliance year per capita water use.

5.7 2020 FINAL TARGETS
Consistent with the 2015 UWMP, the 2020 Urban Water Use Target was calculated using Method 3, which is indicated on the following pages in SBX7-7 Table 7. Method 3, as defined by DWR, assigns a static 2020 urban water use target based on a water supplier’s location within one of the ten regional urban water use target areas. Using Method 3, the City’s 2020 urban water use target is documented as 95% of the hydrologic regional (Tulare Lake) target, as 179 gpcd; the water use targets for the ten water use regions are summarized in SBX7-7 Table 7-E on the following pages. The 179 gpcd target is intended to be maintained through the UWMP horizon of 2045.

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SBX7-7 Table 5 Gallons Per Capita Per Day (GPCD)
Baseline Year
Service
Area
Population
Annual
Gross
Water Use
Daily
Per
Capita
Water
Use
(AF) (gpcd)
10 to 15 Year Baseline Per Capita Water
Use
Year 1 1995 37,400 9,198 220
Year 2 1996 38,150 9,348 219
Year 3 1997 39,300 10,379 236
Year 4 1998 39,900 8,704 195
Year 5 1999 40,350 9,855 218
Year 6 2000 41,450 9,649 208
Year 7 2001 42,462 9,673 203
Year 8 2002 43,869 10,502 214
Year 9 2003 44,466 10,784 217
Year 10 2004 46,096 11,260 218
10-15 Year Average Baseline GPCD 215
5 Year Baseline Per Capita Water Use
Year 1 2006 48,920 11,613 212
Year 2 2007 50,534 12,930 228
Year 3 2008 51,922 12,742 219
Year 4 2009 52,970 12,792 216
Year 5 2010 53,967 12,172 201
5 Year Average Baseline GPCD 215
2015 Compliance Year Per Capita Water
Use
2015 55,337 11,640 188
2020 Compliance Year Population
2020 61,326 11,714 171

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SBX7-7 Table 6 Gallons per Capita per
Day Summary
Per Capita
Water Use
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10-15 Year Baseline 215
5 Year Baseline 215
2020 Compliance Year 171
SBX7-7 Table 7 2020 Target Method
Target Method Supporting Documentation
Method 1 SB X7-7 Table 7A
Method 2 SB X7-7 Tables 7B, 7C, and 7D
Method 3 SB X7-7 Table 7-E
Method 4 Method 4 Calculator

5.7.1 5-Year Baseline – 2020 Target Confirmation
Law
The 2020 Urban Water Use Target is required to reduce the City’s 2020 water use by a minimum of 5 percent from the 5-year baseline period (2006-2010). As calculated in SB X7-7 Table 5, the average per capita water use for the 5-year baseline period is 215 gpcd. The 2020 urban water use target of 179 gpcd is an approximate 17 percent reduction from the 5-year average per capita water use, thereby confirming the 2020 Urban Water Use Target as documented in SBX7-7 Table 7-F.
10608.22 Notwithstanding the method adopted by an urban retail water supplier pursuant to Section 10608.20, an urban retail water supplier’s per capita daily water use reduction shall be no less than 5 percent of base daily per capita water use as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 10608.12. This section does not apply to an urban retail water supplier with a base daily per capita water use at or below 100 gallons per capita per day.

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Area in This
Hydrological
Region
Hydrologic Region
"2020
Plan"
Regional
Targets
Method
3 Regional
Targets
(95%)
(gpcd) (gpcd)
North Coast 137 130
North Lahontan 173 164
Sacramento River 176 167
San Francisco Bay 131 124
San Joaquin River 174 165
Central Coast 123 117
100% Tulare Lake 188 179
South Lahontan 170 162
South Coast 149 142
Colorado River 211 200
Target 179

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Baseline GPCD
Maximum 2020
Target1
Calculated
2020 Target
Confirmed 2020
Target
(gpcd) (gpcd) (gpcd) (gpcd)
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Notes:

1. Maximum 2020 Target is 95% of the 5-year Baseline per capita water use

5.8 2020 COMPLIANCE DAILY PER CAPITA WATER USE
Law
Using the City population and gross water use for the 2020 compliance year, the per capita water use was calculated as 171 gpcd, meaning the City has met the 2020 target per capita water use of 179 gpcd. Table 5-2 and SBX7-7 Table 9 summarizes the City’s compliance with the 2020 per capita water use targeted reduction.

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2020 GPCD
2020
Confirmed
Target
GPCD
Did Supplier
Achieve
Targeted
Reduction for
2020?
Actual 2020
GPCD
2020 Total
Adjustments
Adjusted
2020 GPCD
171 - 171 179 Yes
10608.12 (f) ”Compliance daily per-capita water use” means the gross water use during the final year of the reporting period…
10608.20 (e) An urban retail water supplier shall include in its urban water management plan due in 2010…compliance daily per capita water use, along with the bases for determining those estimates, including references to supporting data.

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5.9 REGIONAL ALLIANCE
The DWR allows water supply agencies to comply with SBX7-7 through a Regional Alliance, and the corresponding SBX7-7 compliance information must be reported in a Regional Alliance Report. The City is not part of a regional alliance and is not reporting any compliance information in a Regional Alliance Report.

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6.0 CHAPTER 6 – SYSTEM SUPPLIES
The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the City’s current and planned water supply sources and volumes. This includes a description of the groundwater basins used by the City as a source of supply. Ongoing planning efforts for the potential use of recycled water within the City’s service area are also summarized.

6.1 PURCHASED OR IMPORTED WATER
The City currently uses local groundwater as the sole source of water supply and does not purchase or import water from any other water suppliers or entities.

6.2 GROUNDWATER
For planning purposes, the State of California has been divided into ten separate hydrologic regions by the DWR, based on the State’s major drainage basins. According to the California Water Plan 2018 Update, the City is located in the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region. Each hydrologic region is divided into distinct groundwater basins, each of which is typically divided further into smaller interconnected groundwater subbasins. The following section summarizes the groundwater basin and subbasin underlying the City.

6.2.1 Basin Description
Law
The City is located above the San Joaquin Valley Groundwater Basin, for which the Kings County Water District (KCWD) is the principal groundwater management agency. This basin can further be divided into subbasins that help better define the aquifer below the city. These subbasins are interconnected and help filter, transmit, and store water. The subbasins that subdivide the San Joaquin Valley Groundwater Basin are the Kings, Kern County, Kaweah, Tulare Lake, Tule, Pleasant Valley, and Westside groundwater basin. The Tulare Lake subbasin is the specific groundwater subbasin in which the City resides and has a surface area of approximately 524,000 acres (Figure 6-1). It is bounded to the north by the Kings Groundwater Basin, to the south by the Kings-Kern County line, to the east by the Westside groundwater basin, and to the west by the California Aqueduct; the subbasin has a surface area of approximately 818 square miles. 10631. (b)(4) If groundwater is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the following information shall be included in the plan:
(B) A description of any groundwater basin or basins from which the urban water supplier pumps groundwater.

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The Tulare Lake Groundwater Subbasin is not an adjudicated groundwater basin. In characterizing the groundwater budget, the DWR has classified the subbasin as Type B, which means that enough data is available to estimate groundwater extraction to meet local needs, but not enough data is available to characterize the groundwater budget. Well yields in the Tulare Lake subbasin average between 300 and 1,000 gallons per minute (gpm), with a maximum of 3,000 gpm.

As of 1995, the DWR estimated the total water storage of the subbasin using an estimated specific yield of 8.5 percent and water levels collected by the DWR as well as other cooperators.

Based on these calculations, the DWR estimates the total storage capacity of the subbasin to be 17,100,000 AF to a depth of 300 ft and 82,500,000 AF to the base of fresh groundwater.

The 2003 DWR Bulletin 118 describes the subbasin water level as declining from 1970 to 2000, with fluctuation in the intervening years. Fluctuations can range from a general increase of 24 feet to decrease of up to 23 feet, with an average decline of 17 feet. According to the DWR, fluctuations are most significant in the lakebed area of the subbasin, with the area experiencing some of the steepest decreases and increases in water levels.

According to 2020 Tulare Lake Groundwater Sustainability Plan, GSAs estimate the total annual change in storage in the Subbasin storage ranged from -392,280 AF (2015) to 361,230 AF (2011) and averaged approximately -85, 690 AF per year during the 1990-2016 period. Municipal pumping was assumed to increase slowly from about 25,060 AF (2017) to about 30,160 AF (2070).

6.2.2 Groundwater Management
Law
The Tulare Lake Groundwater Sustainability Plan, adopted in January 2020, was developed for the Tulare Lake Subbasin pursuant to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. The Tulare Lake Subbasin is classified as a high-priority subbasin by DWR and is subdivided into five local GSAs. The Mid-Kings River GSA covers the portion of the Tulare Lake Subbasin from which the City extracts its groundwater supplies.
10631. (b)(4) …if groundwater is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the following information shall be included in the plan:
(C) The current version of any groundwater sustainability plan or … any groundwater management plan adopted by the urban water supplier…or any other specific authorization for groundwater management. (D) For basins that a court or the board has adjudicated the rights to pump groundwater, a copy of the order or decree adopted by the court or the board and a description of the amount of groundwater the urban water supplier has the legal right to pump under the order or decree.

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According to the Tulare Lake Subbasin GSP, the intent of the plan is to manage groundwater resources such that adequate water supplies are maintained for existing users and established management objectives maintain a sustainable groundwater yield. The sustainability goals for the Subbasin will be achieved by implementing the measures below, as extracted from the GSP. • Understanding the interaction between existing and future conditions • Analyzing and identifying the effects of exiting management actions on the Subbasin • Implementing the GSP and its associated measures, including projects and management actions to halt and avoid future undesirable results
• Collaborating between agencies to achieve goals and protect beneficial uses • Assessing at interim milestones the successes and challenges of the implemented projects and

6.2.3 Overdraft Conditions
The Tulare Lake subbasin has been identified by DWR as a high-priority groundwater basin and is one of multiple subbasins within the state listed as being in a condition of critical overdraft. The Tulare Lake Subbasin GSP indicates that the Mid-Kings Rivers GSA intends to coordinate with KCWD to implement ongoing basin management objectives and overdraft mitigation measures.

Several efforts to mitigate overdraft were documented in the KCWD 2001 Groundwater Management Plan Update, which are briefly summarized below. • Water Conservation Efforts: KCWD and the City of Hanford participate in several water conservation and education programs, contributing both funds and staff time. The agricultural users within the KCWD service area use the delivered water responsibly through various highly efficient irrigation systems. Additionally, water deliveries are metered and billed based on volume used and customers therefore have an incentive to minimize water usage.
• Increasing Surface Water Imports: KCWD currently delivers surface water to several water and canal companies. Utilization of surface water supplies decreases the demand on groundwater, serving as a form of in-lieu recharge. KCWD strives to provide surface water at a rate low enough to customers to encourage utilizing as much surface water as possible before resorting to groundwater pumping.
• Increasing Groundwater Recharge: KCWD operates 25 direct groundwater recharge basins and also leaves many earthen canals unlined for the purpose of recharge through seepage. The total recharge surface area, including both basins and unlined canals, is approximately 1,300 acres; the amount of recharge varies from year to year, and the most significant recharge effects occur during wet years.

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6.2.4 Historical Groundwater Pumping
Law
According to the 2017 WSMP there are currently 14 active groundwater wells located throughout the City, as shown in Figure 6-2, with a combined supply capacity of approximately 34.5 million gallons per day (mgd). The firm capacity, designated as the total capacity less the largest unit out of service, of the City wells is 31.6 mgd.

The volume of groundwater pumped by the City over the past five years is summarized in Table 6-1. Historically, the Tulare Lake subbasin has adequately met the City’s water demands, and it is anticipated that the subbasin will adequately meet the City’s water demands in the future.

Table 6-1 Groundwater Volume Pumped
Groundwater
Type
Location or
Basin Name
Volume
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
Alluvial Basin
San Joaquin
Valley
Groundwater
Basin, Tulare
Lake Subbasin
10,910 11,073 11,557 10,927 11,714
Total 10,910 11,073 11,557 10,927 11,714
10631. (b)(4) …if groundwater is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the following information shall be included in the plan:
(C) A detailed description and analysis of the location, amount, and sufficiency of groundwater pumped by the urban water supplier for the past five years. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonable available, including, but not limited to, historic use records.

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6.3 SURFACE WATER
At the time of preparation of the 2020 UWMP, the City does not use surface water as part of its water supply.

6.4 STORMWATER
At the time of preparation of the 2020 UWMP, the City does not use stormwater as part of its water supply.

6.5 WASTEWATER AND RECYCLED WATER
This section discusses the use of recycled water, and the characteristics of the wastewater treated at the City owned and operated treatment plant.

6.5.1 Recycled Water Coordination
Law
The City of Hanford is responsible for the collection, treatment, and disposal of wastewater within the City limits. The subsequent sections document information regarding the wastewater treatment facility, the use of reclaimed wastewater, and the coordination between agencies regarding the treated wastewater.

6.5.2 Wastewater Collection, Treatment, and Disposal
This section describes wastewater collection and disposal.

Law

6.5.2.1 Wastewater Collected Within Service Area
The City collects wastewater from residential, commercial, and industrial customers within the City limits and some unincorporated areas. The collected flows are conveyed through a trunk system to a Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF) in the south of the City. The City’s large industrial area near the southern boundary of the City limits collect flows at a series of lift stations before 10633 The plan shall provide, to the extent available, information on recycled water and its potential for use as a water source in the service area of the urban water supplier. The preparation of the plan shall be coordinated with local water, wastewater, groundwater, and planning agencies that operate within the supplier’s service area. 10633 (a) A description the wastewater collection and treatment systems in the supplier’s service area, including a quantification of the amount of wastewater collected and treated and the methods of wastewater disposal
(b) A description the quantity of treated wastewater that meets recycled water standards, is being discharge, and is otherwise available for use in a recycled water project.

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being pumped north to the WWTF. Based on available data received from City staff, the WWTF treated an average annual wastewater flow of approximately 4,944AF in 2020 (Table 6-2).

Table 6-2 Wastewater Collected Within Service Area in 2020 Wastewater Collection Recipient of Collected Wastewater Name of
Wastewater
Collection
Agency
Wastewater
Volume
Metered or
Estimated?
Volume of
Wastewater
Collected from
UWMP Service
Area 2020
Name of
Wastewater
Treatment
Agency
Receiving
Collected
Wastewater
Treatment
Plant
Name
Is
WWTP
Located
Within
UWMP
Area?
Is WWTP
Operation
Contracted to a
Third Party?
(AF)
City of
Hanford Metered 4,944 City of Hanford
City of
Hanford
WWTF
Yes No

6.5.2.2 Wastewater Treatment and Discharge Within Service Area The City’s WWTF has an existing design capacity of 8.0 mgd and includes the following treatment components: a headworks, two primary clarifiers, two primary trickling filters, two secondary trickling filters, one oxidation ditch, four secondary clarifiers, three anaerobic digesters, one dissolved air flotation sludge thickener, sixteen sludge drying beds, one facultative sludge lagoon, one effluent equalization basin, six effluent disposal/percolation ponds, and two emergency effluent storage ponds. Treated wastewater is discharged to the facility’s equalization basin and then pumped to evaporation/percolation ponds or farmlands for agricultural irrigation. The City’s treatment and discharge of wastewater are summarized in Table 6-3.

Table 6-3 Wastewater Treatment and Discharge Within Service Area in 2020 Wastewater
Treatment
Plant Name
Discharge
Location
Name and
Description
Method
of
Disposal
Does This
Plant Treat
Wastewater
Generated
Outside the
Service
Area?
Treatment
Level
2020 Volume
Wastewater
Treated
Discharged
Treated
Wastewater
Recycled
Within
Service
Area
Recycled
Outside of
Service Area
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
City of
Hanford
WWTF
Equalization
basin
storage of
treated
effluent
Land
disposal No
Secondary
Disinfected
– 23 MPN
4,944 0 0 4,944

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6.5.3 Recycled Water System
Law
The City currently distributes the chlorinated secondary-treated effluent wastewater to agriculture users, east and west of the WWTF, for crop irrigation. The irrigation of crops on privately owned land is permitted under the City’s two monitoring report programs (MRP) from the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB). The first program, MRP 5-00-222, governs the use of recycled water on 11,500 acres of privately owned farmland within the Lakeside Irrigation Water Irrigation District (LIWD). In an agreement with LIWD, the City pays $30 per acre-foot to dispose of its recycled wastewater effluent. The second program, MRP 5-00-223, governs the use of recycled water on a 1,600-acre site owned by the City as well as several small privately owned farms near the WWTF. Appendix B includes the City’s Reclamation Project Agreement, which stipulates the City’s use of recycled water.

The City’s recycling of the disinfected secondary effluent on agricultural farmland does not directly offset potable water use. As such this recycled water use is not able to assist the City in meeting its 2020 Urban Water Use Target and is not used in the calculations set forth in Chapter 5.

However, the City’s recycled water use does offset groundwater and surface water that would otherwise be used by farmers in the area. Furthermore, the recycled water consumer, LIWD locates outside of the city limit, therefore, LIWD’s recycled water demand is excluded from Hanford’s recycled demand projection in this report (2020 UWMP).

Delivery of the secondary treated effluent to permitted lands involves two separate pump stations, each with a 24-inch discharge pipeline. One pump station delivers recycled water from the WWTF to land west of the WWTF through a 24-inch diameter reinforced concrete pipe. Recycled water delivered to the east and south of the WWTF is pumped by the second pump station through a 24-inch diameter polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipeline.

6.5.4 Recycled Water Beneficial Uses
This section documents the current uses of WWTF treated effluent.

Law
10633 (c) A description the recycled water currently being used in the supplier’s service area, including, but not limited to, the type, place, and quantity of use. 10633 (d) A description and quantification of the potential uses of recycled water, including, but not limited to, agricultural irrigation, landscape irrigation, wildlife habitat enhancement, wetlands, industrial reuse, groundwater recharge, indirect potable reuse, and other appropriate uses, and a determination with regard to the technical and economic feasibility of serving those uses.
(e) A description the projected use of recycled water within the supplier’s service area at the end of 5, 10, 15, 20 years and a description of the actual use of recycled water in comparison to uses previously projected pursuant to this subdivision.

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6.5.4.1 Current and Planned Uses of Recycled Water
According to the City’s 2000 Recycled Water Engineering Report, irrigation demand for the LIWD lands alone are 27,103 acre-feet per year (afy). This demand will continue to exceed the amount of recycled water available from the WWTF and is the most economically and technically feasible method for the City’s disposal of its treated effluent. However, the recycled water consumer, LIWD, is located outside of the city limit, therefore LIWD’s recycled water demand projection is not included in Hanford’s recycled water demand projection, nor documented in Table 6-4.

Table 6-4 Current and Projected Recycled Water Direct Beneficial Uses Within Service Area Recycled water is not used and is not planned for use within the service area of the supplier.

The supplier will not complete the table below.

Beneficial Use
Type
General
Description of
2015 Uses
Level of
Treatment
Volume
2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
Total 0 0 0 0 0 0
The City may decide in the future to reevaluate the need or desirability of expanding its recycled water use to serve municipal customers. This would involve constructing a recycled water distribution system throughout the City and would require an upgrade to the WWTF to provide tertiary treatment.

6.5.4.2 Planned Versus Actual Use of Recycled Water
Law
2015 UWMP have identified agricultural irrigation in Lakeside Irrigation Water District (LIWD) as the sole method of recycling the City’s treated wastewater effluent., however, LIWD is located outside of the City Limit. In this report (2020 UWMP), the recycled water use in LIWD is excluded from the Hanford’s Recycled water use, as shown in Table 6-5. 10633 (e) …. (Provide) a description of the actual use of recycled water in comparison to uses previously projected pursuant to this subdivision.

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Table 6-5 2015 UWMP Recycled Water Use Projection Compared to 2020 Actual
Use Type
2015
Projection
for 2020
2020
Actual Use
(AF) (AF)
Agricultural irrigation 5,606 0
Total 5,606 0
Note: Agricultural irrigation volumes were documented in the 2015 UWMP for the informational purposes only and reflected the recycled water demands for Lakeside Irrigation Water District, but not the City. This agricultural irrigation use is not documented as part of the 2020 UWMP.

6.5.5 Actions to Encourage and Optimize Future Recycled Water Use Law
As previously discussed, the City’s current method of recycling its WWTF effluent through agricultural irrigation on LIWD permitted farmland is the most economically and technically feasible method of disposal. Therefore, additional measures taken by the City to encourage recycled water use, such as financial incentives or informational programs, are not expected to result in additional recycled water use, as summarized in Table 6-6.

Table 6-6 Methods to Expand Future Recycled Water Use
Name of
Action Description
Planned
Implementation
Year
Expected
Increase in
Recycled
Water Use
TBD The City currently does not have a plan
to expand recycled water use.
10633 (f) A description of actions, including financial incentives, which may be taken to encourage the use of recycled water, and the projected results of these actions in terms of acre-feet of recycled water used per year.
(g) A plan for optimizing the use of recycled water in the supplier’s service area, including actions to facilitate the installation of dual distribution systems, to promote recirculating uses, to facilitate the increased use of treated wastewater that meets recycled water standards, and to overcome any obstacles to achieving that increased use.

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6.6 DESALINATED WATER OPPORTUNITIES
Law
The groundwater under the City is not brackish in nature and does not require desalination.

However, the City could provide financial assistance to other water purveyors in exchange for water supplies; the City could consider this option should the need arise.

6.7 EXCHANGES OR TRANSFERS
Law
There are currently no known exchanges, transfers, or interties that exist between the City and any other water system.

6.8 FUTURE WATER PROJECTS
Law
As discussed in previous sections, the City’s sole source of potable water is groundwater. As such, the only method available to provide additional supply capacity for growing demand is the construction of new wells, and there are no additional types of future water projects the City plans to implement.

The City’s total supply capacity is approximately 38,600 afy (34.5 MGD); its firm capacity, designated as the total capacity less the largest unit out of service, is approximately 35,400 afy (31.6 MGD). The 2017 WSMP identified needs for additional groundwater wells as the City’s demands increase, which are reflected in the City’s capital improvement program. Previous planning efforts have identified two additional wells for construction. The rated capacity of these additional wells has yet to be determined, but for planning purposes is assumed equal to the average rated capacity of the City’s 14 existing wells, which is approximately 2,700 afy. The City also plans to construct a new tank to serve the southern industrial park, which will improve the 10631 (g) Describe the opportunities for development of desalinated water, including, but not limited to, ocean water, brackish water, and groundwater, as a long-term supply 10631 (c) Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water on a short-term or long-term basis.
10631 (f) …The urban water supplier shall include a detailed description of expected future water projects and programs…that the urban water supplier may implement to increase the amount of the water supply available to the urban water supplier in normal and single dry water years and for a period of drought lasting five consecutive water years. The description shall identify specific projects and include a description of the increase in water supply that is expected to be available from each project. The description shall include an estimate with regard to the implementation timeline for each project or program.

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reliability of the industrial park’s distribution system. These improvements are summarized on the following page in Table 6-7.

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Future
Projects or
Programs
Joint
Project
with other
agencies?
Description
Planned
Implementation
Year
Planned
for Use
in Year
Type
Expected
Increase in
Water Supply
to Supplier
(AF)
Additional
Wells No
Two new wells
planned for next 5
years as part of city's
Capital Improvement
Program
2020-2025 All Year
Types 5,400
Industrial
Park Tank No New tank to serve south Industrial Park 2020-2025 All Year Types Notes:

1. For planning purposes, the expected increase to the City's water supply for future wells with a capacity that is to be determined is equal to the average supply capacity of the City's existing wells. This average supply capacity is approximately equal to 2,700 afy per well site.

6.9 SUMMARY OF EXISTING AND PLANNED SOURCES OF WATER
Law
The City’s groundwater supply has been adequate to meet the City’s historical demands and Table 6-8 summarizes the total amount of groundwater pumped in 2020. In order to meet the growing demand, new groundwater wells will have to be constructed. The City intends to continue to use groundwater as the sole source of potable water supply. Annual projections for the City’s groundwater supplies are estimated based on the groundwater sustainability analysis (Appendix C), which consolidated the estimated sustainable yield information documented in Tulare Lake GSP and the City’s planning water service area.

Annual projections for the City’s recycled water supplies are summarized in Table 6.9 and assume that the City will continue to use 100 percent of its recycled water for agricultural irrigation, although a portion of the water will be lost to evaporation and percolation. Projected 10631 (b) Identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water available to the supplier over the same five-year increments described in subdivision 10631(a). (4) (Provide a) detailed description and analysis of the amount and location of groundwater that is projected to be pumped by the urban water supplier. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonable available, including, but not limited to, historic use records.

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recycled water supply was assumed to be equal to the projected annual wastewater flow of the WWTP. This projected wastewater flow was calculated based on the projected water demand and historical average of the city-wide return-to-sewer ratio, using available data between 2006 and 2020. Consistent with the 2015 UWMP all treated wastewater effluent is expected to be used to irrigate agricultural lands. Table 6-9 summarizes the total projected water supply, including groundwater and recycled water sources, available through 2045.

It should be noted that Tulare Lake subbasin which underlies the City is not adjudicated, and the projected groundwater supply volumes are not intended to and do not limit the City’s water rights or maximum pumping volumes. The Mid-Kings River GSA continues to evaluate any options to enhance groundwater supplies; however, to date, Tulare Lake GSP has not restricted the maximum groundwater availabilities. The City of Hanford actively participates in the preparation of the GSP and monitors any potential changes to groundwater availability in the future.

Table 6-8 Water Supplies – Actual
Water Supply
Source
2020
Actual Volume Water
(AF) Quality
Groundwater 11,714 Potable
Water
Recycled Water 4,944 Recycled
Water
Total 16,658
Table 6-9 Water Supplies – Projected
Water Supply
Source
Projected Water Supply
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
Groundwater 10,033 10,033 10,033 10,033 10,033
Recycled Water 5,077 5,318 5,569 5,833 6,109
Total 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142

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6.10 CLIMATE CHANGE CONSIDERATIONS
Potential impacts of climate change may not only influence demand throughout the City’s service area, but could alter the water supply availability. Based on the City’s location and current climate, the most notable changes in climate would be related to increasing average temperature, intensifying storm events, and periods of extended drought. Other potential effects, such as decreasing snowpack or rising sea levels, would not have a direct impact on the City’s water demand or supply. Changes in annual precipitation and temperature could have an impact on the City’s overall water use as well as available supply volumes. The City, as well as other local water supply agencies, will continue to monitor available water supply volumes and year-on-year changes to determine actions necessary to mitigate potential supply shortages.

6.11 ENERGY INTENSITY
Law
An urban water supplier’s energy intensity (EI) is the amount of energy (kWh) consumed for the purpose of supplying water from the point that it enters the City’s service area to the point at which it exits the system at the point of delivery. The 2020 Urban Water Management Plan Guidebook provides guidance for estimating energy intensity associated with the source of water used by an urban water supplier. The purpose of calculating the City’s energy intensity is to:
• Develop a baseline energy use per acre-foot of treated water delivered by the water system.
• Aid in Identifying energy saving opportunities in the future. • Allow for comparing energy use among similar agencies.

The estimate of energy intensity includes requirements for the purpose of water conveyance, extraction, treatment, placing water into and taking it from storage, and distribution. The City’s water energy intensity only accounts for the water management processes occurring within its 10631.2.(a) In addition to the requirements of Section 10631, an urban water management plan shall include any of the following information that the urban water supplier can readily obtain:
(1) An estimate of the amount of energy used to extract or divert water supplies. (2) An estimate of the amount of energy used to convey water supplies to the water treatment plants or distribution systems.
(3) An estimate of the amount of energy used to treat water supplies. (4) An estimate of the amount of energy used to distribute water supplies through its distribution systems.
(5) An estimate of the amount of energy used for treated water supplies in comparison to the amount used for nontreated water supplies. (6) An estimate of the amount of energy used to place water into or withdraw from storage.
(7) Any other energy-related information the urban water supplier deems appropriate.

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operational control. The following water management processes are accounted for in the City’s energy intensity estimate, which is based on existing processes and available records:
• Extraction of groundwater from Tulare Lake Subbasin.
• Delivery of treated water to end users.

Energy use data relating to the extraction, diversion, conveyance, treatment, distribution and placing into and taking from storage in the City’s water supply system was acquired from Southern California Edison (SCE) meter data for year 2020. The City, therefore, utilized Table O-1B (Appendix A) for its EI calculations instead of Table O-1A or O1-C, since it is not possible to distinguish between energy used for treatment and conveyance at this time.

Total energy use and volume of water entering the City’s water system for year 2020 were 9,259,222 kWh and 11,714 AF, respectively, resulting in an Energy Intensity of 790. kWh/AF (2425.8 kWh/MG).

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7.0 CHAPTER 7 – WATER SUPPLY RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT
This chapter assesses the reliability of the City’s water supply under normal conditions, single year dry conditions, and five-year dry conditions. The reliability assessment includes a comparison of projected water use versus expected water supply for the next 20 years. This chapter also includes the newly required Drought Risk Assessment, which is a review of the capability of the City’s water supplies to meet demands for the next five years, assuming a fiveyear drought occurs.

7.1 CONSTRAINTS ON WATER SOURCES
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As discussed in previous sections, the City’s only current and planned source of supply is groundwater. The potential constraints on the City’s water supply are summarized as follows.

7.1.1 Legal Factors
Examples of legal factors that could impact the supply reliability of a water distribution system include pumping limitations in adjudicated groundwater basins and surface water contracts. As noted in Chapter 6 the Tulare Lake Groundwater Subbasin, the sole basin from which the City extracts groundwater, is not an adjudicated groundwater basin and there are no legal limitations on the amount of groundwater the City can extract under the Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency’s (MKR GSA) groundwater sustainability plan (GSP).

7.1.2 Environmental Factors
Environmental concerns can arise during the water planning process when a project’s impact on the ecosystem is taken into consideration. These concerns can subsequently cause a lack of supply due to the enforcement of environmental legislation. The City’s groundwater source is not expected to be limited by environmental concerns.

7.1.3 Water Quality Factors
If a surface water or groundwater source has water quality constituents that exceed allowable levels, the amount of water a supplier can obtain from that source can be limited. The City’s 10631 (b)(1) A detailed discussion of anticipated supply availability under a normal water year, single dry year, and droughts lasting at least five years, as well as more frequent and severe periods of drought, as described in the drought risk assessment. For each source of water supply, consider any information pertinent to the reliability analysis conducted pursuant to Section 10635, including changes in supply due to climate change.

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7.1.3 Water Quality Factors
If a surface water or groundwater source has water quality constituents that exceed allowable levels, the amount of water a supplier can obtain from that source can be limited. The City’s groundwater supply has one water quality constituent that has historically required mitigation measures in order to ensure the supply is not limited, which is arsenic. Arsenic is concentrated in the clay strata beneath the City, and hydrogen sulfide, which may cause discoloration, adverse taste, and a smell typically compared to rotten eggs. The City has implemented a chlorination program for the water supply, and hydrogen sulfide is no longer considered a water constituent of concern. The steps taken by the City to ensure the water supply is unaffected by arsenic are summarized in the following section.

7.1.3.1 Arsenic
Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in 1975 to protect public health. In accordance with the SDWA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established a maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 0.050 mg/L for arsenic. Amendments to the SDWA in 1996 required the EPA to establish a new MCL of arsenic, which is the current MCL of 0.010 mg/L.

Through the preparation of several studies, the City has determined the best methods for reducing the levels of arsenic in their water supply. These studies include:
• 1989 Water Quality Study (Carollo Engineers)
• 1996 Water System Master Plan (Boyle Engineers)
• 2005 Arsenic Reduction Study (Carollo Engineers)
• 2005 Water Supply and Distribution Capacity Analysis for the Arsenic Reduction Study (Carollo Engineers)
The alternative methods considered by the City to reduce arsenic concentrations below the MCL are summarized as follows:
• Abandon high arsenic wells and drill replacement wells with lower concentrations • Blend water from wells with higher concentrations with wells of lower concentrations • Install well head treatment
• Rehabilitate wells that produce water with high arsenic concentrations to a block of strata with low concentrations, producing water low in arsenic.

A non-treatment based approach was determined to be the most cost effective for the City and was comprised of the following three improvement projects:
• Abandon six shallow wells with low production and high arsenic concentration. Replace the abandoned wells with two wells of a higher production capacity and lower arsenic concentration.

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• Abandon and replace three wells that could not be rehabilitated with new wells with higher production capacities and acceptable arsenic conditions. • Three deep wells were rehabilitated to ensure they only extract groundwater from a zone with lower arsenic concentrations.

The City currently treats a groundwater well for Arsenic contamination. Upon the implementation of these arsenic improvement projects, the City’s water supply is able to reliably produce water below the MCL for arsenic. Based on the current levels, the long-term reliability of the City’s water supply is not restricted due to arsenic.

7.1.4 Climatic Factors
The primary climatic factors that affect the reliability of water supply system are precipitation and runoff characteristics, specifically the seasonal trend. Systems that rely heavily on surface water are most vulnerable to changes in water supply when a shift in precipitation and runoff amounts reduce the amount of surface water available. The City does not rely on surface water as a source of supply and is not vulnerable to these supply reductions.

7.2 RELIABILITY BY TYPE OF YEAR
This section discusses the yearly supply conditions, and the sources of data for supply evaluation.

7.2.1 Types of Years
This section discusses the type of years considered when evaluating water supply reliability. The conditions are as follows:
• Average Water Year – The average water year is a year that represents the median runoff levels from precipitation. The supply quantities would be similar to historical average supplies.
• Single Dry Year – The single dry year is defined as the individual year with the lowest usable water supply. This condition can be derived as the year with the lowest annual supply and is represented by the year 1984 (Table 7-1). It should be noted that under single dry year conditions the anticipated City-wide demand will increase slightly from a normal year as a response to reduced rainfall.
• Five-Consecutive-Year Drought – The five-consecutive year drought is defined as the five consecutive years with the lowest usable water supply. The multiple dry years are detrimental to the water supply system because of their adverse effect on the levels of local and state-wide reservoirs, as well as groundwater levels. Available supply percentage for these conditions is based on an analysis of historical per capita water use described in a later section. Consistent with the 2015 UWMP the period between 1987 and 1991 was selected to represent the five-consecutive-year drought (Table 7-1).

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Table 7-1 Basis of Water Data
Year Type Base
Year
Percent of
Average Supply
(%)
Average Year 2000 100%
Single-Dry Year 1984 84%
Consecutive Dry Years 1st Year 1987 93%
Consecutive Dry Years 2nd Year 1988 90%
Consecutive Dry Years 3rd Year 1989 88%
Consecutive Dry Years 4th Year 1990 86%
Consecutive Dry Years 5th Year 1991 87%

7.2.2 Sources for Water Data
To establish a basis of normal year, single dry year, and five-consecutive-year drought’s historical rainfall data available for the City of Hanford from the DWR California Data Exchange Center (CDEC) was analyzed.

7.3 SUPPLY AND DEMAND ASSESSMENT
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During prolonged years of drought, City-wide water use patterns are expected to change.

Typically, outdoor water use will initially increase as irrigation is used to offset decreased rainfall.

These potential water use increases can be offset, in part, by increasing water conservation measures. To characterize the City’s water use during years of drought, the City’s historical per capita water usage was analyzed. Analyzing per capita water usage, rather than total volume consumed, normalizes water consumption with population and eliminates the increase in demand due to growth. The 2020 UWMP expands on the analysis performed as part of the 2015 UWMP, and includes historical per capita consumption between the years 1984 and 2020, as summarized on Figure 7-1.
10635 (a) Every urban water supplier shall include, as part of its urban water management plan, an assessment of the reliability of its water service to its customers during normal, dry, and multiple dry water years. This water supply and demand assessment shall compare the total water supply sources available to the water supplier with the total projected water use over the next 20 years, in five-year increments, for a normal water year, a single dry water year, and multiple dry water years. The water service reliability assessment shall be based upon the information compiled pursuant to Section 10631, including available data from state, regional or local agency population projections within the service area of the urban water supplier.

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Figure 7-1
Historic Per Capita Demand Variation
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1987 per capita demand
variation: 10.6%

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Figure 7-1 indicates a downward trend in per capita water consumption, with a sharp decrease between the 1980s and mid-1990s, and a more gradual decrease from the mid-1990s to present.

To account for this downward trend in the analysis, two linear fit trend lines were developed, characterizing the trend from 1984 to 1995 and 1995 to 2020.

Table 7-1 summarizes the supply available for the various hydrologic water years. Because the City utilizes groundwater as its sole source of supply, the available “supply” drawn from the aquifer in any year is equal to the system-wide water demand for that particular year. The demand projections for the various hydrologic water years are summarized in Table 7-2, Table 7-3, and Table 7-4 and assume the projected supply will be equal to the projected demand as the City’s sole source is groundwater.

Table 7-2 Normal Year Supply and Demand Comparison
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
Supply 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand 11,623 12,172 12,748 13,351 13,982
Difference 3,488 3,179 2,855 2,515 2,160
Table 7-3 Single Dry Year Supply and Demand Comparison
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
Supply 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538

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Table 7-4 Multiple Dry Years Supply and Demand Comparison 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045
(AF) (AF) (AF) (AF) (AF)
First year
(1987)
Supply 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Second year
(1988)
Supply 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Third year
(1989)
Supply 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Fourth year
(1990)
Supply 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Fifth year
(1991)
Supply 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Historical production records indicate that during drought water years, water demands during the single dry and multiple dry periods vary from the normal year baseline. Figure 7-1 documents historical per capita water use between 1984 and 2020 and summarizes the City’s historical response to periods of dry weather. 1987 is shown as the first year of the multiple dry water year period and reflects the significant variation between the annual per capita water use and the historical trend; in 1987, the per capita water use was approximately 10.6% above the historical trend. While this year remains the significant deviation between annual per capita water use and the historical trend, 2013 is another year of significant deviation. During California’s recent drought, the City’s per capita water use was approximately 11.6% above the historical trend.

While the magnitude of the current drought is similar to that of the 1987 water year, increased water conservation measures put in place by the City have resulted in lower per capita water use.

In order to account for demand variation during drought water years, the projected water demands during the single dry and multiple dry water years (Table 7-3 and Table 7-4) are increased by a factor that reflects the greatest deviation (11.6% in 2013) of per capita water use from the historical trend.

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7.4 REGIONAL SUPPLY RELIABILITY
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As discussed previously, the City uses groundwater as its sole source of supply and no known opportunities currently exist for diversifying sources of supply. In order to reduce the burden on groundwater resources during periods of prolonged drought, the City has an aggressive water conservation ordinance to prevent and prohibit the wasting of water, while also encouraging the community to conserve.

7.5 DROUGHT RISK ASSESSMENT
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As part of the 2020 UWMP, the California Water Code now requires urban water suppliers to develop a drought risk assessment (DRA). The DRA is a planning exercise that considers the effects on available water supply sources should a five-year drought occur immediately following the preparation of the DRA. It is similar in nature to the supply and demand assessment described in a previous section, but only evaluates the effects of a five-year drought. The DRA also considers the effect of the City’s Water Shortage Contingency Plan on available supply and total demand. Ultimately, the DRA is a proactive planning review that readies the City for the worstcase water supply condition should it occur in the immediate future. 10620 (f) An urban water supplier shall describe in the plan water management tools and options used by that entity that will maximize resources and minimize the need to import water from other regions.
10635 (b) Every urban water supplier shall include, as part of its urban water management plan, a drought risk assessment for its water service to its customers as part of information considered in developing the demand management measures and water supply projects and programs to be included in the urban water management plan. The urban water supplier may conduct an interim update or updates to this drought risk assessment within the five-year cycle of its urban water management plan update. The drought risk assessment shall include each of the following:
(1) A description of the data, methodology, and basis for one or more supply shortage conditions that are necessary to conduct a drought risk assessment for a drought period that lasts five consecutive water years, starting from the year following when the assessment is conducted.
(2) A determination of the reliability of each source of supply under a variety of water shortage conditions. This may include a determination that a particular source of water supply is fully reliable under most, if not all, conditions. (3) A comparison of the total water supply sources available to the water supplier with the total projected water use for the drought period. (4) Considerations of the historical drought hydrology, plausible changes on projected supplies and demands under climate change conditions, anticipated regulatory changes, and other locally applicable criteria.

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7.5.1 DRA Data, Methods, and Basis for Water Shortage Conditions The DRA evaluates the effect on available water supply during the course of a five-year drought.

Currently, the City’s sole water supply source is groundwater. As such, the same data and methodology used for preparing the supply and demand assessment through 2045, described in a previous section, can be used for the purposes of the DRA.

For conservative planning purposes, the DRA considers an unconstrained demand condition within the City’s service area, which means no additional demand management measures or water use reduction methods are in place outside of the City’s year-round prohibitions. This conservative planning condition allows the DRA to identify if additional water use reductions, documented in the Water Shortage Contingency Plan, should be implemented.

7.5.2 DRA Individual Water Source Reliability
The DRA water demand and supply comparisons are documented in Table 7-5, which assumes that the available groundwater supplies are equal to the projected unconstrained demand through 2025 should a five-year drought occur.

7.5.3 DRA Total Water Supply and Use Comparison
The City’s DRA is summarized at the beginning of the following page in Table 7-5. Using assumptions for available supplies consistent with previous planning efforts, and accounting for an unconstrained demand condition, the DRA shows that the City will be able to meet projected water demands under a 5-consecutive-year drought starting in 2021. At this point in time no water shortage declarations or shortage response actions are required to be implemented.

7.5.4 Management Tools and Options
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In order to reduce the burden on groundwater resources during periods of prolonged drought, the City has developed a Water Shortage Contingency Plan that can be implemented to prevent and prohibit the wasting of water while also encouraging the community to conserve.

The City’s supply reliability is dependent on the rate of available recharge for the groundwater subbasins beneath the City. KCWD imports raw water for the purpose of recharging the groundwater subbasins they manage, which includes the Tulare Lake subbasin. During periods of drought, the imported water supplies available to KCWD can be reduced or not provided at all, which would reduce the amount of recharge available to the groundwater basins. In periods of 10620 (f) An urban water supplier shall describe in the plan water management tools and options used by that entity that will maximize resources and minimize the need to import water from other regions.

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Table 7-5 Five-Year Drought Risk Assessment
Totals 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Demands
Total Water Use 12,502 12,619 12,737 12,854 12,971
Supplies
Groundwater Supplies 15,004 15,031 15,057 15,084 15,110 Surplus/Shortfall without
WSCP Action 0 0 0 0 0
Planned WSCP Actions (use
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benefit 0 0 0 0 0
WSCP - use reduction savings
benefit 0 0 0 0 0
Revised Surplus/(shortfall) 2,502 2,411 2,321 2,230 2,140 Resulting % Use Reduction
from WSCP action 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
water shortage, KCWD works closely with the water suppliers extracting water from groundwater subbasins they manage in order to minimize overdraft and subsidence. Typically, when KCWD identifies a risk to regional supply reliability, they call for urban water suppliers to reduce their water use through voluntary and mandatory water conservation measures.

Additionally, during a drought, KCWD anticipates the City to use groundwater reserves. Historical groundwater monitoring by KCWD in the Tulare Lake subbasin also indicates stable groundwater conditions during multiple-year droughts. Through KCWD’s implementation of conjunctive use programs, the Tulare Lake groundwater subbasin has historically experienced well managed levels. As a result of this management, the Tulare Lake subbasin is considered a reliable source of supply during water shortages. While pumping may exceed recharge during a drought, basin management practices have prevented long-term adverse conditions.

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8.0 CHAPTER 8 – WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLANNING
This chapter summarizes the City’s Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP). The WSCP is a separately adopted planning document that most notably outlines levels of water shortage conditions, demand reduction methods to be implemented in the event of a water shortage and the process the City will implement to perform an annual Supply and Demand assessment. The WSCP also includes discussion of the City’s communication protocols during a water shortage, methods of determining compliance and enforcing water use prohibitions, estimating the financial consequences of a water shortage, and the methods the City has in place to monitor and report the effectiveness of any water demand reduction methods implemented.

8.1 WATER SUPPLY RELIABILITY ANALYSIS
The City currently uses groundwater as the sole source of water supply, with wells extracting water from the Tulare Lake Subbasin of the San Joaquin Valley Groundwater Basin. These groundwater basins are managed by the Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency and the 2020 Tulare Lake Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan lists the rates of natural recharge for these groundwater supply sources. Consistent with previous planning efforts, the City’s Water Supply Reliability Analysis and the available supply drawn from the aquifer in any year is equal to the system-wide water demand for that particular year.

8.2 ANNUAL WATER SUPPLY AND DEMAND ASSESSMENT
Updates to the California Water Code now require that urban water suppliers prepare an annual water supply and demand assessment (Annual Assessment) on an annual basis. The findings of this Annual Assessment will be summarized in a report submitted to the Department of Water Resources by July 1 of each calendar year, with the first report required for submission on July 1st ,
2022. The purpose of this annual assessment is to ensure water suppliers are proactively considering the available water supplies and demand requirements, as well as identifying the potential need for implementing the Water Shortage Contingency Plan.

It should be noted that DWR is in the process of preparing a stand-alone guidance document that will outline general procedures to aid urban water suppliers in preparing the Annual Assessment.

The decision-making process and Annual Assessment completion steps are preliminary at this point in time and will be further refined as the DWR guidance document is completed.

The City’s Water Shortage Contingency Plan is provided in Appendix D and summarizes the decision-making process and methodology used to prepare the Annual Assessment. The reporting timeline is shown in Figure 8-1.

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FIGURE 8-1 ANNUAL ASSESSMENT REPORTING TIMELINE

8.3 WATER SHORTAGE LEVELS
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Water agencies that rely on groundwater as the sole source of supply are unlikely to experience water shortages like those agencies that rely on surface water. As the City is currently utilizing groundwater as its sole source of supply, it is not expected that the City will experience the water supply shortages that surface water dependent suppliers will.

As part of the City’s efforts to conserve water, the City has permanent water use prohibitions in place. Additionally, the City’s conservation ordinance describes a multiple stage water conservation plan. Each water rationing stage includes a water demand reduction percentage, which is to be applied to normal water demands. The plan is dependent on the cause, severity, and anticipated duration of the water shortage, and a combination of voluntary and mandatory water conservation measures can be put in place to reduce City-wide water usage. A comparison between the City’s water shortage levels and the DWR recommended 6-level framework is documented in the WSCP. The water shortage levels are summarized in Table 8-1. 10632 (a)(1) Stages of action to be undertaken by the urban water supplier in response to water supply shortages, including up to a 50 percent reduction in water supply and an outline of specific water supply conditions which are applicable to each stage.

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Table 8-1 Water Shortage Contingency Plan Levels
Stage Percent Supply
Reduction Water Supply Condition
1 10%-20%
Minor Shortage Potential
- Below average rainfall in the previous 12-24 months
- 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
- Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
2 20%-35%
Moderate Shortage Potential
- Below average rainfall in the previous 24-36 months
- Prolonged periods of low water pressure
- 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
- Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
3 35%-50%+
Critical Shortage Potential
- Below average rainfall for over 36 months
- Prolonged periods of low water pressure
- 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
- Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
The water shortage stages become effective when the City Manager declares that the City is unable to provide sufficient water supply to meet ordinary demands, to the extent that insufficient supplies would be available for human consumption, sanitation, and fire protection. The declared stage will be based on the City Manager’s judgment and to the degree of the immediate or future supply deficiency.

8.4 SHORTAGE RESPONSE ACTIONS
The City’s WSCP includes shortage response actions that may be implemented during a water shortage. Additionally, the City’s municipal code has multiple permanent water use restrictions in place year-round that minimize water waste. These shortage response actions and permanent water use restrictions are summarized in the WSCP, provided in Appendix D.

8.5 PLAN ADOPTION, SUBMITTAL, AND AVAILABILITY
The WSCP adoption, submittal and availability process are the same as those for the City’s UWMP. However, the WSCP may be periodically amended independently from the City’s UWMP.

Should an amendment to the WSCP be implemented, stakeholder and public notification methods consistent with the UWMP will be performed prior to the adoption of the amended plan.

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9.0 CHAPTER 9 – DEMAND MANAGEMENT MEASURES
This chapter summarizes the demand management measures, which are additional measures the supplier plans on implementing to achieve its water use targets and maintain ongoing water conservation.

9.1 DEMAND MANAGEMENT MEASURES AND IMPLEMENTATION
The following section summarizes the Demand Management Measures planned and implemented by the City to promote water conservation. This section includes, as applicable, discussions on both the historical implementation and planned implementation of various measures.

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9.1.1 Waste Water Prevention Ordinances
The City adopted a Water Waste Ordinance in 1976 requiring all new connections to the water system to have meters. Citations were issued for ordinance violations and a five dollar penalty was imposed after three violations; a water meter was installed after the fourth violation, with all installation costs being charged to the customer. In 1986 the Water Waste Ordinance was revised, increasing the penalty for the first violation to 15 dollars and every subsequent penalty to ten dollars. A flow restrictor is installed if the violations continue. In 2015, the Water Waste Ordinance was revised, increasing the penalty for the second violation to 50 dollars and the fourth violation to 200 dollars.

On August 4, 2014 the City Council adopted updated Water Supply Shortage Regulations and declared a Level 1 Water Supply Shortage, with the intent of reducing water use by 20% as compared to the previous year. Over the following 8-months, the City’s customers achieved a

13.6% water use reduction compared to the same time period in the previous year, which was short of the 20% reduction goal. In May 2015, City staff recommended the implementation of additional water use reduction methods and the declaration of a Level 2 Water Supply Shortage, 10631 (f)(A) …The narrative shall describe the water demand management measure that the supplier plans to implement to achieve its water use targets pursuant to Section 10608.20. (B) The narrative pursuant to this paragraph shall include descriptions of the following water demand management measures:
(i) Water waste prevention ordinances.
(ii) Metering.
(iii) Conservation pricing.
(iv) Public education and outreach.
(v) Programs to assess and manage distribution system real loss. (vi) Water conservation program coordination and staffing support. (vii) Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water use as measured in gallons per capita per day, including innovative measures, if implemented.

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which was adopted by the City Council. As part of this declaration, additional water reduction methods have been put in place, including but not limited to the prohibition of irrigating public medians with potable water, washing down sidewalks and driveways, and operating a decorative water feature without a recirculation system. The full summary of water use prohibitions and consumption reduction methods for each water supply shortage level is discussed in Chapter 8, as part of the City’s Water Shortage Contingency Plan.

9.1.2 Metering
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Since the 1976 adoption of a Water Waste Ordinance, all new connections to the water system have been required to have meters. The City requires the installation of a water meter for any unmetered customer that installs a swimming pool or constructs an addition to an existing home valued in excess of 5,000 dollars. The City has also worked to convert previous unmetered and flat rate accounts to the new AMR metering system currently in use throughout the City.

9.1.3 Conservation Pricing
Currently, the City bills customers at a monthly rate per 100 cubic feet. In December 2015, the City adopted a resolution (Appendix E) to increase the monthly water rate in order to provide sufficient funds to operate, maintain, and improve the water system and to pay debt service for bonds, maintain system facilities, and provide water quality compliance. The City currently does not utilize seasonal rates and has no declining rate structure.

9.1.4 Public Outreach
The City has undertaken multiple public information programs to help reduce water consumption and raise public awareness of methods of water conservation.

9.1.4.1 Public Information Programs
In order to raise awareness of water conservation, the City implements programs for the purpose of distributing water use information to the public through varying methods, which can include 526
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, an urban water supplier that, on or after January 1, 2004, receives water from the federal Central Valley Project under a water service contract or subcontract…shall do both of the following:
(1) On or before January 1, 2013, install water meters on all service connections to residential and nonagricultural commercial buildings…located within its service area. 527
(a) An urban water supplier that is not subject to Section 526 shall do both of the following:
(1) Install water meters on all municipal and industrial service connections located within its service area on or before January 1, 2015.

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brochures, radio or television broadcasts, or through school programs and videos. Additionally, information on water use conservation can be found on the City website.

The City currently distributes information about water-saving tips, outdoor water use restriction reminders, and water saving information in the local paper, in the monthly bill stuffers, at the City’s seasonal farmers market, and at the Hanford Mall.

9.1.4.2 School Education Program
As a member of the Kings County Water Education Committee (KCWEC), the City sends representatives to public schools throughout the county to give presentations on water safety and water conservation. KCWEC also provides book covers to schools detailing water conservation and water safety information.

9.1.4.3 Residential Water Audits
In 2014, the City started providing residential water audits for members of the community who wished to have their system evaluated. In 2015, the City began auditing Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial users as part of a State Conservation Order.

9.1.5 Programs to Assess and Manage Distribution System Real Loss When water enters the transmission and distribution system, it is difficult to account for the end result of the water. As a means to better account for water use in the system, a water supplier may use a water audit. Unaccounted for water is the difference between the water supplied to the system and the cumulative total of metered water use. The City’s ability to accurately determine the amount of unaccounted for water is complicated by the number of unmetered service connections, and the City has not conducted a formal water auditing and leak detection program at this time. However, the City has been implementing an automated meter reading (AMR) retrofit for its existing connections, allowing City staff to identify users with high consumption rates.

Additionally, the new meters allow the City to identify connections with relatively constant consumption rates throughout both day and night, indicating the customer may have a leak. The City identifies these potential leak locations and advises potentially affected customers.

Currently, the City does not meter sewer and hydrant flushing, as well as street sweeping, and the City compares well production with water usage to determine these uses. Additionally, unaccounted for water can be an indicator of leaks, meter errors, water system repair or maintenance, or illegal connections.

The City’s annual capital improvement budget currently allocates funds for system repairs, including transmission and distribution mains, as well as pump stations and storage tanks. Leaks within the system are immediately fixed upon detection. The City keeps a record of all repaired leaks in the Public Works Department.

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9.1.6 Water Conservation Program Coordination and Staffing Support The Utilities Superintendent is responsible for coordinating and expanding the City’s water conservation program as well as providing useful water conservation information to residents through the various public outreach programs. The City employs part-time staff to enforce water use prohibitions and write violations; the City recently hired a full-time water conservation technician to assist with the enforcement of the water conservation program.

9.1.7 Other Demand Management Measures - Large Landscape Conservation Program In accordance with Assembly Bill 325, the Water Conservation Landscaping Act, the City has adopted a Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance, which limits the amount of turf in landscaping, requires plant groupings according to water needs, and provides some flexibility to the landscape designer while promoting landscape water efficiency. The Parks Superintendent is responsible for reviewing all commercial landscaping plans for compliance before permits are issued.

To ensure that commercial landscape water use does not exceed allowable levels, the Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance establishes a method of breaking up landscaped areas into zones that have similar water use requirements, either none, low, medium, or high. Based on the water use requirements of each zone, a multiplier is applied to the square footage of the zone and the sum of these zone calculations must not exceed the project’s total landscaped area

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10.0 CHAPTER 10 – PLAN ADOPTION, SUBMITTAL, AND

IMPLEMENTATION
This section includes the process undertaken for adoption and submittal of the UWMP as well as the plan required to implement the UWMP. Ways in which the public can access the UWMP is also described in this section.

10.1 INCLUSION OF 2015 DATA
The City is preparing the 2020 UWMP on the basis of a calendar year, and preparation of the plan was completed following the end of the calendar year 2020. Relevant data has been updated through December of 2020.

10.2 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
This section documents the public notification process and when a notice was given.

10.2.1 Notice to Cities and Counties
Law
The City provided notice to relevant stakeholders, summarized in Table 10-1, on April 27th, 2021; this notification date was more than the required 60 days prior to the public hearing on the 2020 UWMP.

Table 10-1 Notification to Cities and Counties
City or County
Name 60 Day Notice Notice of Public Hearing
Kings County
KCWD
10621 (b) Every urban water supplier required to prepare a plan shall…at least 60 days prior to the public hearing on the plan…notify any city or county within which the supplier provides water supplies that the urban water supplier will be reviewing the plan and considering amendments or changes to the plan.
10642 …The urban water supplier shall provide notice of the time and place of hearing to any city or county within which the supplier provides water supplies. A privately owned water supplier shall provide an equivalent notice within its service area…

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10.2.2 Notice to the Public
Law
A notice of the public hearing was published in the local newspaper in a manner pursuant to the stated Government Code 6066. Documentation of the notice provided to the public is included in Appendix E, and the draft 2020 UWMP and WSCP were available for review at various City facilities and on the City’s web page.

10.3 PUBLIC HEARING AND ADOPTION
Following the notification of relevant stakeholders, the City held a City Council meeting on October 5th, 2021, to address and review comments received from both stakeholders and members of the community. These comments were reviewed and addressed, and the final 2020 UWMP was adopted by City Council on October 19th, 2021; Appendix F includes a copy of the adopting resolution.

10.4 PLAN SUBMITTAL
The UWMPA requires water agencies to submit a copy of the adopted 2020 UWMP to the DWR within 30 days of adoption and before July 1st, 2021. Additionally, water agencies are required to submit a copy of the adopted 2020 UWMP to all relevant stakeholders within 30 days of adoption.

The adopted 2020 UWMP was submitted to the DWR on October 26th, 2021. The adopted 2020 UWMP was submitted to relevant stakeholders and the California State Library within 30 days of adoption.

10.5 PUBLIC AVAILABILITY
Consistent with the UWMPA requirements, a copy of the 2020 UWMP was made available to the public in the office of the City Clerk at City Hall, located at 319 Douty St, and the Public Works Department, located at 900 S 10th Ave, within 30 days of adoption. 10642 …Prior to adopting a plan, the urban water supplier shall make the plan available for public inspection…Prior to the hearing, notice of the time and place of hearing shall be published within the jurisdiction of the publicly owned water supplier pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code…
Government Code 6066
Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be once a week for two successive weeks. Two publications in a newspaper published once a week or oftener, with at least five days intervening between the respective publication dates not counting such publication dates, are sufficient. The period of notice commences upon the first day of publication and terminates at the end of the fourteenth day, including therein the first day.

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10.6 AMENDING AND ADOPTED UWMP
Any amendments to the adopted 2020 UWMP will be adopted and filed in a manner consistent with the UWMPA requirements. Additionally, all adopted amendments will be submitted to DWR and any relevant stakeholders within 30 days of adoption.

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11.0 CHAPTER 11 – DWR CHECKLIST
This report is organized in accordance with the outline suggested by DWR for the 2020 Urban Water Management Plans. This additional chapter is included to guide the reviewers to the chapters or sections in this report that address the items listed in the DWR Checklist, as published in the Final Guidebook (March 2021) Table 11-1 DWR Checklist
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1 A plan shall describe and evaluate sources of supply, reasonable and practical efficient uses, reclamation
and demand management activities.

Introduction and
Overview 10615 Chapter 4, 6
2 Each plan shall include a simple description of the
supplier’s plan including water availability, future
requirements, a strategy for meeting needs, and other
pertinent information. Additionally, a supplier may also choose to include a simple description at the
beginning of each chapter.

Summary 10630.5 Chapter 1-10
3 Every person that becomes an urban water supplier
shall adopt an urban water management plan within
one year after it has become an urban water supplier.

Plan Preparation 10620(b) -
4 Coordinate the preparation of its plan with other
appropriate agencies in the area, including other water suppliers that share a common source, water
management agencies, and relevant public agencies, to
the extent practicable.

Plan Preparation 10620(d)(2) Section 10.2

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5 Provide supporting documentation that the water
supplier has encouraged active involvement of diverse
social, cultural, and economic elements of the
population within the service area prior to and during
the preparation of the plan and contingency plan.

Plan Preparation 10642 Section 10.2
6 Retail suppliers will include documentation that they have provided their wholesale supplier(s) - if any - with water use projections from that source.

System Supplies 10631(h) Section 4.2.2,
Section 6.1
7 Wholesale suppliers will include documentation that
they have provided their urban water suppliers with
identification and quantification of the existing and
planned sources of water available from the wholesale
to the urban supplier during various water year types.

System Supplies 10631(h) -
8 Describe the water supplier service area. System
Description 10631(a) Section 3.1,
9 Describe the climate of the service area of the supplier. System Description 10631(a) Section 3.2
10 Provide population projections for 2025, 2030, 2035, 2040 and optionally 2045.

System
Description 10631(a) Section 3.3
11 Describe other social, economic, and demographic
factors affecting the supplier’s water management
planning.

System
Description 10631(a) Section 3.1.4Section 3.3
12 Indicate the current population of the service area.

System
Description and
Baselines and
Targets
10631(a) Sections 3.3
13 Describe the land uses within the service area. System Description 10631(a) Section 3.1.3

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14 Quantify past, current, and projected water use,
identifying the uses among water use sectors. System Water Use 10631(d)(1) Section 4.2 15 Retail suppliers shall provide data to show the
distribution loss standards were met. System Water Use 10631(d)(3)(C) Section 4.3 16 In projected water use, include estimates of water
savings from adopted codes, plans, and other policies
or laws.

System Water Use 10631(d)(4)(A) Section 4.4
17 Provide citations of codes, standards, ordinances, or plans used to make water use projections. System Water Use 10631(d)(4)(B) - 18 Report the distribution system water loss for each of the 5 years preceding the plan update. System Water Use 10631(d)(3)(A) Section 4.3 19 Include projected water use needed for lower income
housing projected in the service area of the supplier. System Water Use 10631.1(a) Section 4.5 20 Demands under climate change considerations must be
included as part of the drought risk assessment. System Water Use 10635(b) Section 7.5 21 Retail suppliers shall provide baseline daily per capita water use, urban water use target, interim urban water
use target, and compliance daily per capita water use,
along with the bases for determining those estimates,
including references to supporting data.

Baselines and
Targets 10608.20(e) Chapter 5
22 Retail suppliers shall meet their
water use target by December 31, 2020.

Baselines and
Targets 10608.24(a) Chapter 5
23 Wholesale suppliers shall include an assessment of
present and proposed future measures, programs, and
policies to help their retail water suppliers achieve
targeted water use reductions.

Baselines and
Targets 10608.36 -

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24 If the retail supplier adjusts its compliance GPCD using weather normalization, economic adjustment, or
extraordinary events, it shall provide the basis for, and data supporting the adjustment.

Baselines and
Targets 10608.24(d)(2) -
25 Retail suppliers’ per capita daily water use reduction shall be no less than 5 percent of base daily per capita water use of the 5-year baseline. This does not apply if the suppliers base GPCD is at or below 100.

Baselines and
Targets 10608.22 Section 5.6
26 Retail suppliers shall report on their compliance in meeting their water use targets. The data shall be
reported using a standardized form in the SBX7-7 2020
Compliance Form.

Baselines and
Targets 10608.4 Section 5.8
27 Provide a discussion of anticipated supply availability under a normal, single dry year, and a drought lasting
five years, as well as more frequent and
severe periods of drought.

System Supplies 10631(b)(1) Sections 7.2
28 Provide a discussion of anticipated supply availability under a normal, single dry year, and a drought lasting
five years, as well as more frequent and severe periods of drought, including changes in supply due to climate
change.

System Supplies 10631(b)(1) Sections 7.2
29 When multiple sources of water supply are identified, describe the management of each supply in
relationship to other identified supplies.

System Supplies 10631(b)(2) Section 6.2
30 Describe measures taken to acquire and develop
planned sources of water. System Supplies 10631(b)(3) Section 6.1 31 Identify and quantify the existing and planned sources of water available for 2020, 2025, 2030, 2035, 2040
and optionally 2045.

System Supplies 10631(b) Section 6.9

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32 Indicate whether groundwater is an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier. System Supplies 10631(b) Section 6.2 33 Indicate whether a groundwater sustainability plan or groundwater management plan has been adopted by
the water supplier or if there is any other specific
authorization for groundwater management. Include a
copy of the plan or authorization.

System Supplies 10631(b)(4)(A) Section 6.2.2
34 Describe the groundwater basin. System Supplies 10631(b)(4)(B) Section 6.2.1 35 Indicate if the basin has been adjudicated and include a copy of the court order or decree and a description of
the amount of water the supplier has the legal right to pump.

System Supplies 10631(b)(4)(B) Section 6.2
36 For unadjudicated basins, indicate whether or not the department has identified the basin as a high or
medium priority. Describe efforts by the supplier to
coordinate with sustainability or groundwater agencies
to achieve sustainable groundwater conditions.

System Supplies 10631(b)(4)(B) Section 6.2
37 Provide a detailed description and analysis of the
location, amount, and sufficiency of groundwater
pumped by the urban water supplier for the past five
years.

System Supplies 10631(b)(4)(C) Section 6.2.4
38 Provide a detailed description and analysis of the
amount and location of groundwater that is
projected to be pumped.

System Supplies 10631(b)(4)(D) Section 6.9
39 Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water on a short-term or long- term basis. System Supplies 10631(c) Section 6.7

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40 Describe the quantity of treated wastewater that
meets recycled water standards, is being discharged,
and is otherwise available for use in a recycled water
project.

System Supplies
(Recycled Water) 10633(b) Section 6.5
41 Describe the recycled water currently being used in the supplier's service area.

System Supplies
(Recycled Water) 10633(c) Section 6.5.2
42 Describe and quantify the potential uses of recycled water and provide a determination of the technical and
economic feasibility of those uses.

System Supplies
(Recycled Water) 10633(d) Section 6.5.4
43 Describe the projected use of recycled water within the supplier's service area at the end of 5, 10, 15, and 20 years, and a description of the actual use of recycled
water in comparison to uses previously projected.

System Supplies
(Recycled Water) 10633(e) Section 6.5.4
44 Describe the actions which may be taken to encourage the use of recycled water and the projected results of
these actions in terms of acre-feet of recycled water
used per year.

System Supplies
(Recycled Water) 10633(f) Section 6.5.4
45 Provide a plan for optimizing the use of recycled water in the supplier's service area.

System Supplies
(Recycled Water) 10633(g) Section 6.5.4
46 Describe desalinated water project opportunities for long-term supply. System Supplies 10631(g) Section 6.6
47 Describe the wastewater collection and treatment
systems in the supplier’s service area with quantified
amount of collection and treatment and the disposal
methods.

System Supplies 10633(a) Section 6.5.2

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48 Describe the expected future water supply projects and programs that may be undertaken by the water
supplier to address water supply reliability in average, single-dry, and for a period of drought lasting 5
consecutive water years.

System Supplies 10631(f) Section 6.9
49 The UWMP must include energy information, as stated
in the code, that a supplier can readily obtain.

System Suppliers,
Energy Intensity 10631.2(a) Section 6.11
50 Provide information on the quality of existing sources of water available to the supplier and the manner in
which water quality affects water management
strategies and supply reliability
Water Supply
Reliability
Assessment
10634 Section 7.1
51 Describe water management tools and options to
maximize resources and minimize the need to import
water from other regions.

Water Supply
Reliability
Assessment
10620(f) Section 6.2.2
Section 7.5.1
52 Service Reliability Assessment: Assess the water supply reliability during normal, dry, and a drought lasting five consecutive water years by comparing the total water
supply sources available to the water supplier with the total projected water use over the next 20 years.

Water Supply
Reliability
Assessment
10635(a) Section 7.3
53 Provide a drought risk assessment as part of
information considered in developing the demand
management measures and water supply projects.

Water Supply
Reliability
Assessment
10635(b) Section 7.5
54 Include a description of the data, methodology, and
basis for one or more supply shortage conditions that
are necessary to conduct a drought risk assessment for
a drought period that lasts 5 consecutive years.

Water Supply
Reliability
Assessment
10635(b)(1) Section 7.5
55 Include a determination of the reliability of each source of supply under a variety of water shortage conditions.

Water Supply
Reliability
Assessment
10635(b)(2) Section 7.3

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56 Include a comparison of the total water supply sources available to the water supplier with the total projected water use for the drought period.

Water Supply
Reliability
Assessment
10635(b)(3) Section 7.3
Section 7.5
57 Include considerations of the historical drought
hydrology, plausible changes on projected supplies and
demands under climate change conditions, anticipated
regulatory changes, and other locally applicable
criteria.

Water Supply
Reliability
Assessment
10635(b)(4) Section 7.3
Section 7.5
58 Provide a water shortage contingency plan (WSCP)
with specified elements below.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
59 Provide the analysis of water supply reliability (from Chapter 7 of Guidebook) in the WSCP
Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(1) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
60 Describe reevaluation and improvement procedures
for monitoring and evaluation the water shortage
contingency plan to ensure risk tolerance is adequate
and appropriate water shortage mitigation strategies
are implemented.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(10) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
61 Provide the written decision- making process and other methods that the supplier will use each year to
determine its water reliability.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(2)(A) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
62 Provide data and methodology to evaluate the
supplier’s water reliability for the current year and one dry year pursuant to factors in the code.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(2)(B) Chapter 8,
Appendix D

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63 Define six standard water shortage levels of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 percent shortage and greater than 50 percent
shortage. These levels shall be based on supply
conditions, including percent reductions in supply,
changes in groundwater levels, changes in surface
elevation, or other conditions. The shortage levels
shall also apply to a catastrophic interruption of supply.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(3)(A) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
64 Suppliers with an existing water shortage contingency plan that uses different water shortage levels must
cross reference their categories with the six standard
categories.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(3)(B) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
65 Suppliers with water shortage contingency plans that align with the defined shortage levels must specify
locally appropriate supply augmentation actions.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(4)(A) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
66 Specify locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(4)(B) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
67 Specify locally appropriate operational changes.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(4)(C) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
68 Specify additional mandatory prohibitions against
specific water use practices that are in addition to
state-mandated prohibitions are appropriate to local
conditions.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(4)(D) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
69 Estimate the extent to which the gap between supplies and demand will be reduced by implementation of the
action.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(4)(E) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
70 The plan shall include a seismic risk assessment and mitigation plan.

Water Shortage
Contingency Plan 10632.5 Chapter 8, Appendix D

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71 Suppliers must describe that they will inform
customers, the public and others regarding any current
or predicted water shortages.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(5)(A) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
72 Suppliers must describe that they will inform
customers, the public and others regarding any
shortage response actions triggered or anticipated to
be triggered and other relevant communications.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(5)(B)106
32(a)(5)(C)
Chapter 8,
Appendix D
73 Retail supplier must describe how it will ensure
compliance with and enforce provisions of the WSCP.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(6) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
74 Describe the legal authority that empowers the
supplier to enforce shortage response actions.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(7)(A) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
75 Provide a statement that the supplier will declare a water shortage emergency Water Code Chapter 3.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(7)(B) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
76 Provide a statement that the supplier will coordinate with any city or county within which it provides water
for the possible proclamation of a local emergency.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(7)(C) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
77 Describe the potential revenue reductions and expense increases associated with activated shortage response
actions.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(8)(A) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
78 Provide a description of mitigation actions needed to address revenue reductions and expense increases
associated with activated shortage response actions.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(8)(B) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
79 Retail suppliers must describe the cost of compliance with Water Code Chapter 3.3: Excessive
Residential Water Use During Drought
Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(8)(C) Chapter 8,
Appendix D

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80 Retail suppliers must describe the monitoring and
reporting requirements and procedures that ensure
appropriate data is collected, tracked, and analyzed for purposes of monitoring customer compliance.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(a)(9) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
81 Analyze and define water features that are artificially supplied with water, including ponds, lakes, waterfalls, and fountains, separately from swimming pools and
spas.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(b) Chapter 8,
Appendix D
82 Provide supporting documentation that Water
Shortage Contingency Plan has been, or will be,
provided to any city or county within which it provides water, no later than 30 days after the submission of
the plan to DWR.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10635(c) Sections 8.12
and 10.4
83 Make available the Water Shortage Contingency Plan
to customers and any city or county where it provides
water within 30 days after adopted the plan.

Water Shortage
Contingency
Planning
10632(c) Section 8.14
84 Wholesale suppliers shall describe specific demand
management measures listed in code, their distribution
system asset management program, and supplier
assistance program.

Demand
Management
Measures
10631(e)(2) Sections 9.1
and 9.3
85 Retail suppliers shall provide a description of the
nature and extent of each demand management
measure implemented over the past five years. The
description will address specific measures listed in
code.

Demand
Management
Measures
10631(e)(1) Sections 9.2
and 9.3
86 Retail suppliers shall conduct a public hearing to
discuss adoption, implementation, and economic
impact of water use targets (recommended to discuss
compliance).

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10608.26(a) Chapter 10.3

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87 Notify, at least 60 days prior to the public hearing, any city or county within which the supplier provides water that the urban water supplier will be reviewing the
plan and considering amendments or changes to the
plan. Reported in Table 10-1.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10621(b) Section

10.2.1 88 Each urban water supplier shall update and submit its 2020 plan to the department by July 1, 2021.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10621(f) Section 10.4
89 Provide supporting documentation that the urban
water supplier made the plan and contingency plan
available for public inspection, published notice of the public hearing, and held a public hearing about the
plan and contingency plan.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10642 Sections 10.2
90 The water supplier is to provide the time and place of the hearing to any city or county within which the
supplier provides water.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10642 Section 10.2
91 Provide supporting documentation that the plan and
contingency plan has been adopted as prepared or
modified.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10642 Section 10.4
92 Provide supporting documentation that the urban
water supplier has submitted this UWMP to the
California State Library.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10644(a) Section 10.4
93 Provide supporting documentation that the urban
water supplier has submitted this UWMP to any city or
county within which the supplier provides water no
later than 30 days after adoption.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10644(a)(1) Section 10.4
94 The plan, or amendments to the plan, submitted to the department shall be submitted electronically.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10644(a)(2) Sections 10.4

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95 Provide supporting documentation that, not later than 30 days after filing a copy of its plan with the
department, the supplier has or will make the plan
available for public review during normal business
hours.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10645(a) Section 10.5
96 Provide supporting documentation that, not later than 30 days after filing a copy of its water shortage
contingency plan with the department, the supplier
has or will make the plan available for public review
during normal business hours.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10645(b) Section 10.5
97 If supplier is regulated by the Public Utilities
Commission, include its plan and contingency
plan as part of its general rate case filings.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10621(c) -
98 If revised, submit a copy of the water shortage
contingency plan to DWR within 30 days of
adoption.

Plan Adoption,
Submittal, and
Implementation
10644(b) -

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APPENDIX A
DWR Recommended Tables

Public Water System
Number
Public Water System
Name
Number of Municipal
Connections 2020
Volume of
Water Supplied
2020 *
1610003 City of Hanford                            17,965 11,714 17,965 11,714
Submittal Table 2‐1 Retail Only: Public Water Systems
NOTES:

TOTAL
Add additional rows as needed
* Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Water Supplier is also a member
of a RUWMP
Water Supplier is also a member
of a Regional Alliance
Regional Urban Water Management Plan
(RUWMP)
Submittal Table 2‐2: Plan Identification
NOTES:

Individual UWMP
Name of RUWMP or Regional Alliance
if applicable
(select from drop down list)
Select
Only One Type of Plan

Supplier is a wholesaler
Supplier is a retailer
UWMP Tables are in calendar years
UWMP Tables are in fiscal years
Unit AF
NOTES:

Submittal Table 2‐3: Supplier Identification
Type of Supplier (select one or both)
Fiscal or Calendar Year (select one)
If using fiscal years provide month and date that the fiscal year begins (mm/dd)
Units of measure used in UWMP *                           (select from drop down)
* Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Submittal Table 2‐4 Retail: Water Supplier Information Exchange The retail Supplier has informed the following wholesale supplier(s) of projected water use in accordance with Water Code Section 10631.

Wholesale Water Supplier Name
Add additional rows as needed
Kings County Water District
Kings County Water Commission
NOTES:

2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045(opt)
61,326 64,227 67,264 70,444 73,776 77,265
Submittal Table
3‐1 Retail: Population ‐ Current and Projected
Population
Served
NOTES:1.Projected population assumes historical average annual growth of 0.9%.

2.Based on Department of Finance E‐5 Table, City of Hanford’s 2020 population was 59,178.

3.City of Hanford also supplied 651 accounts outside of the city limit, which included 2,148

Use Type
Drop down list
May select each use multiple times
These are the only Use Types that will be
recognized by the WUEdata online
submittal tool
Additional Description
(as needed)
Level of Treatment
When Delivered
Drop down list
Volume2
Single Family Drinking Water 6,903
Multi‐Family Drinking Water 1,002Commercial Commercial and Institutional Drinking Water 1,005 Industrial Drinking Water 334
Landscape Drinking Water 750
Other Drinking Water 854
Other Construction Billing Drinking Water 62
Losses 803
11,714
Submittal Table 4‐1 Retail: Demands for Potable and Non‐Potable 1 Water ‐ Actual 2020 Actual
NOTES:

TOTAL
Add additional rows as needed
1 Recycled water demands are NOT reported in this table. Recycled water demands are reported in Table 6‐4. 2Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Use Type
Drop down list
May select each use multiple times
These are the only Use Types that will be recognized by the WUEdata online submittal tool
2025 2030 2035 2040
2045
(opt)
Single Family 6,849 7,173 7,512 7,868 8,240Multi‐Family 994 1,041 1,090 1,142 1,196Commercial Commercial and Institutional 997 1,044 1,093 1,145 1,199Industrial 332 347 364 381 399Landscape 744 780 817 855 896Other 848 888 930 974 1,020Other Construction Billing 62 65 68 71 74 Losses 797 834 874 915 959
11,623 12,172 12,748 13,351 13,982
Projected Water Use2
Report To the Extent that Records are Available
Submittal Table 4‐2 Retail: Use for Potable and Non‐Potable 1Water ‐ Projected Additional Description
(as needed)
NOTES:

TOTAL
Add additional rows as needed
1 Recycled water demands are NOT reported in this table. Recycled water demands are reported in Table 6‐4. 2 Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 (opt)
Potable Water, Raw, Other
Non‐potable
From Tables
4‐1R and
4‐2
R
11,714 11,623 12,172 12,748 13,351 13,982
Recycled Water Demand1
From Table
6‐4
0 00000
Optional Deduction ofRecycled Water Put Into Long‐
Term Storage2
TOTAL WATER USE 11,714 11,623 12,172 12,748 13,351 13,982 Submittal Table
4‐3 Retail: Total Water Use (Potable and Non‐Potable)
NOTES:1 Recycled water demand fields will be blank until Table 6‐4 is complete 2
Long term storage means water placed into groundwater or surface storage that is not removed from storage in the same year. Supplier may deduct recycled water placed in long‐term storage from their reported demand. This value is manually entered into Table 4‐3.

Reporting Period Start Date
(mm/yyyy) Volume of Water Loss 1,2
01/2016 114401/2017 152801/2018 174201/2019 73201/2020 803 Submittal Table 4‐4 Retail: Last Five Years of Water Loss Audit Reporting
NOTES:
1 Taken from the field "Water Losses" (a combination of apparent losses and real losses) from the AWWA worksheet. 2
Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Are Future Water Savings Included in Projections?
(Refer to Appendix K of UWMP Guidebook)
Drop down list (y/n) Yes
If "Yes" to above, state the section or page number, in the cell to the right, where citations of the codes, ordinances, or otherwise are utilized in demand projections are found.

4.3 Are Lower Income Residential Demands Included In Projections? Drop down list (y/n)
Yes
Submittal Table 4‐5 Retail Only: Inclusion in Water Use Projections NOTES:

10‐15
year
1995 2004 215
5 Year 2006 2010 215
Submittal Table 5‐1 Baselines and Targets Summary
From SB X7‐7 Verification FormRetail Supplier or Regional Alliance Only *All cells in this table should be populated manually from the supplier's SBX7‐7 Verification Form and reported in Gallons per Capita per Day (GPCD) NOTES:
179
Baseline
Period Start Year * End Year *
Average
Baseline
GPCD*
Confirmed
2020 Target*

Actual
2020 GPCD*
2020 TOTAL
Adjustments*
Adjusted 2020
GPCD*
(Adjusted if
applicable)
171 ‐ 171 179 YES
NOTES:
2020 Confirmed
Target GPCD*
Did Supplier
Achieve
Targeted
Reduction for
2020? Y/N
2020 GPCD
Submittal Table 5‐2: 2020 Compliance From
SB X7‐7 2020 Compliance Form
Retail Supplier or Regional Alliance Only
*All cells in this table should be populated manually from the supplier's SBX7‐7 2020 Compliance Form and reported in Gallons per Capita per Day (GPCD)

Groundwater Type
Drop Down List
May use each category
multiple times
Location or Basin Name 2016* 2017* 2018* 2019* 2020*
Alluvial Basin
San Joaquin Valley
Groundwater Basin, Tulare
Lake Subbasin
10910 11073 11557 10927 11714
10,910 11,073 11,557 10,927 11,714
Add additional rows as needed
Submittal Table 6‐1 Retail: Groundwater Volume Pumped
Supplier does not pump groundwater.

The supplier will not complete the table below.

NOTES:

TOTAL
All or part of the groundwater described below is desalinated. * Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Name of
Wastewater
Collection
Agency
Wastewater
Volume Metered
or Estimated?
Drop Down List
Volume of
Wastewater
Collected from
UWMP Service
Area 2020 *
Name of
Wastewater
Treatment
Agency Receiving
Collected
Wastewater
Treatment Plant
Name
Is WWTP Located
Within UWMP
Area?
Drop Down List
Is WWTP
Operation
Contracted to a
Third Party?
(optional)
Drop Down List
City of Hanford Metered 4,944 City of Hanford City of Hanford WWTF Yes No 4,944
Total Wastewater Collected from
Service Area in 2020:

NOTES:* Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3 .

Submittal Table 6‐2 Retail: Wastewater Collected Within Service Area in 2020 There is no wastewater collection system. The supplier will not complete the table below.

Percentage of 2020 service area covered by wastewater collection system (optional) Percentage of 2020 service area population covered by wastewater collection system (optional) Wastewater Collection Recipient of Collected Wastewater

Wastewater
Treated
Discharged
Treated
Wastewater
Recycled Within
Service Area
Recycled
Outside of
Service Area
Instream Flow
Permit
Requirement
City of Hanford Equalization Land disposal No Secondary, 4,944 4,944 Total 4,944 0 0 4,944 0
1Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.2 If the Wastewater Discharge ID Number is not available to the UWMP preparer, access the SWRCB CIWQS regulated facility website at https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/readOnly/CiwqsReportServlet?inCommand=reset&reportName=RegulatedFacility NOTES:

Submittal Table 6‐3 Retail: Wastewater Treatment and Discharge Within Service Area in 2020 No wastewater is treated or disposed of within the UWMP service area. The supplier will not complete the table below.

Wastewater
Treatment Plant
Name
Discharge
Location Name
or Identifier
Discharge
Location
Description
Wastewater
Discharge ID
Number
(optional) 2
Method of
Disposal
Drop down list
Does This
Plant Treat
Wastewater
Generated
Outside the
Service Area?
Drop down list
Treatment
Level
Drop down list
2020 volumes 1

Potential Beneficial
Uses of Recycled Water
(Describe)
Amount of Potential
Uses of Recycled Water
(Quantity)
Include volume units 1
General Description
of 2020 Uses
Level of
Treatment
Drop down list
2020 1 2025 1 20301 20351 20401 20451 (opt)
Total: 000000
NOTES:

Agricultural irrigationLandscape irrigation (exc golf courses) Commercial useGolf course irrigation
Supplemental Water Added in 2020 (volume) Include units Source of 2020 Supplemental Water
Beneficial Use Type Insert
additional rows if needed.

Geothermal and other energy production Other (Description Required) 2020 Internal Reuse
1 Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Reservoir water augmentation (IPR) Direct potable reuse Submittal Table 6‐4 Retail: Recycled Water Direct Beneficial Uses Within Service Area Recycled water is not used and is not planned for use within the service area of the supplier.

The supplier will not complete the table below.

Name of Supplier Producing (Treating) the Recycled Water:Name of Supplier Operating the Recycled Water Distribution System:

Wetlands or wildlife habitatGroundwater recharge (IPR)Industrial useSeawater intrusion barrierRecreational impoundment

2015 Projection for
2020 1 2020 Actual Use1
5,606 0
5,606 0
Submittal Table 6‐5 Retail: 2015 UWMP Recycled Water Use Projection Compared to 2020 Actual
Recycled water was not used in 2015 nor projected for use in 2020.

The supplier will not complete the table below. If recycled water was not used in 2020, and was not predicted to be in 2015, then check the box and do not complete the table.

Beneficial Use Type
Agricultural irrigationReservoir water augmentation (IPR) Landscape irrigation (exc golf courses) Insert additional rows as needed.

Golf course irrigationCommercial useIndustrial useGeothermal and other energy production Seawater intrusion barrierRecreational impoundmentWetlands or wildlife habitatGroundwater recharge (IPR) Total
Other (Description Required)Direct potable reuse
NOTE: Agricultural irrigation volumes were documented in the 2015 UWMP for the informational purposes only and reflected the recycled water demands for Lakeside Irrigation Water District, but not the City. This agricultural irrigation use is not documented as part of the 2020 UWMP. 1 Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Name of Action Description
Planned
Implementation
Year
Expected Increase in
Recycled Water Use *
TBD
The City currently does not have a plan to
expand recycled water use.
0 NOTES:

Submittal Table 6‐6 Retail: Methods to Expand Future Recycled Water Use Supplier does not plan to expand recycled water use in the future. Supplier will not complete the table below but will provide narrative explanation.

Provide page location of narrative in UWMP
Add additional rows as needed
Total
*Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Drop Down List (y/n) If Yes, Supplier Name
Additional Wells No
Two new wellsplanned for next 5
years as part of
city's Capital
ImprovementProgram
2020‐2025 All Year Types 5,400
Industrial Park Tank No
New tank to serve
south Industrial
Park
2020‐2025 Average Year
No expected future water supply projects or programs that provide a quantifiable increase to the agency's water supply. Supplier will not complete the table below.

Some or all of the supplier's future water supply projects or programs are not compatible with this table and are described in a narrative format.

Submittal Table 6‐7 Retail: Expected Future Water Supply Projects or Programs Joint Project with other suppliers?
NOTES: For planning purposes, the expected increase to the City's water supply for future wells with a capacity that is to be determined is equal to the average supply capacity of the City's existing wells. This average supply capacity is approximately equal to 2,700 afy per well site.

Name of Future Projects
or Programs
Description
(if needed)
Planned
Implementation
Year
Expected Increase
in Water Supply
to Supplier*
This may be a range
Planned for Use in
Year Type
Drop Down List
Provide page location of narrative in the UWMP
Add additional rows as needed
*Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Water Supply
Drop down list
May use each category multiple
times.These are the only water supply
categories that will be recognized by
the WUEdata online submittal tool
Actual Volume* Water Quality
Drop Down List
Total Right or Safe
Yield* (optional)
Groundwater (not desalinated) 11,714 Drinking Water
Recycled Water 4,944 Recycled Water
16,658 0
Submittal Table 6‐8 Retail: Water Supplies — Actual
Additional Detail on
Water Supply
2020
NOTES:

Add additional rows as needed
Total
*Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Water Supply
Reasonably
Available
Volume
Total Right or
Safe Yield
(optional)
Reasonably
Available
Volume
Total Right or
Safe Yield
(optional)
Reasonably
Available
Volume
Total Right or
Safe Yield
(optional)
Reasonably
Available
Volume
Total Right or
Safe Yield
(optional)
Reasonably
Available
Volume
Total Right or
Safe Yield
(optional)
Groundwater (notdesalinated) 10,033 10,033 10,033 10,033 10,033Recycled Water 5,077 5,318 5,569 5,833 6,109 15,110 0 15,351 0 15,602 0 15,866 0 16,142 0
NOTES
Submittal Table 6‐9 Retail: Water Supplies — Projected
Additional Detail on
Water Supply
Projected Water Supply *
Report To the Extent Practicable
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 (opt)
Total
Drop down list
May use each category multiple
times. These are the only water
supply categories that will be
recognized by the WUEdata online
submittal tool
Add additional rows as needed
*Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

Urban Water Supplier:

Water Delivery Product (If delivering more than one type of product use Table O‐1C) Retail Potable Deliveries
Table O‐1B: Recommended Energy Reporting  ‐ Total Utility Approach Enter Start Date for Reporting Period 1/1/2020
End Date 12/31/2020
Is upstream embedded in the values
reported?
Sum of All
Water
Management
Processes
Water Volume Units Used AF Total Utility Hydropower Net Utility Volume of Water Entering Process (volume unit) 11714 11714 Energy Consumed (kWh) 9259222 9259222
Energy Intensity (kWh/vol. converted to MG) 2425.8 #DIV/0! 2425.8 Quantity of Self‐Generated Renewable Energy
kWh
Data Quality (Estimate, Metered Data, Combination of Estimates and Metered Data) Metered Data
Data Quality Narrative:

Narrative:

City of Hanford
Urban Water Supplier Operational Control
Non‐Consequential Hydropower

% of Average Supply
Average Year 2000 100%
Single‐Dry Year 1984 84%
Consecutive Dry Years 1st Year 1987 93%
Consecutive Dry Years 2nd Year 1988 90%
Consecutive Dry Years 3rd Year 1989 88%
Consecutive Dry Years 4th Year 1990 86%
Consecutive Dry Years 5th Year 1991 87%
Submittal Table 7‐1 Retail: Basis of Water Year Data (Reliability Assessment) Year Type
Base Year
If not using a calendar
year, type in the last
year of the fiscal,
water year, or range
of years, for example,
water year 2019‐
2020, use 2020
Available Supplies if
Year Type Repeats
Quantification of available supplies is not
compatible with this table and is provided
elsewhere in the UWMP.

Location __________________________
Quantification of available supplies is provided in
this table as either volume only, percent only, or
both.

Volume Available *
NOTES:

Supplier may use multiple versions of Table 7‐1 if different water sources have different base years and the supplier chooses to report the base years for each water source separately. If a Supplier uses multiple versions of Table 7‐1, in the "Note" section of each table, state that multiple versions of Table 7‐1 are being used and identify the particular water source that is being reported in each table. *Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG ) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 (Opt)
Supply totals
(autofill from Table 6‐9) 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142 Demand totals
(autofill from Table 4‐3) 11,623 12,172 12,748 13,351 13,982 Difference 3,488 3,179 2,855 2,515 2,160
Submittal Table 7‐2 Retail: Normal Year Supply and Demand Comparison NOTES:

2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 (Opt)
Supply totals* 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand totals* 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Submittal Table 7‐3 Retail: Single Dry Year Supply and Demand Comparison NOTES:
*Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

2025* 2030* 2035* 2040* 2045* (Opt)
Supply totals 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand totals 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Supply totals 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand totals 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Supply totals 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand totals 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Supply totals 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand totals 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Supply totals 15,110 15,351 15,602 15,866 16,142
Demand totals 12,971 13,584 14,227 14,899 15,604
Difference 2,140 1,767 1,376 967 538
Supply totals
Demand totals
Difference 0 0 0 0 0
Submittal Table 7‐4 Retail: Multiple Dry Years Supply and Demand Comparison First year
Second year
Third year
NOTES:

Fourth year
Fifth year
Sixth year
(optional)
*Units of measure (AF, CCF, MG) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP as reported in Table 2‐3.

2021 Total
Total Water Use 12,502
Total Supplies 15,004
Surplus/Shortfall w/o WSCP Action 2,502
WSCP ‐ supply augmentation benefit
WSCP ‐ use reduction savings benefit
Revised Surplus/(shortfall) 2,502
Resulting % Use Reduction from WSCP action 0%
2022 Total
Total Water Use 12,619
Total Supplies 15,031
Surplus/Shortfall w/o WSCP Action 2,411
WSCP ‐ supply augmentation benefit
WSCP ‐ use reduction savings benefit
Revised Surplus/(shortfall) 2,411
Resulting % Use Reduction from WSCP action 0%
2023 Total
Total Water Use 12,737
Total Supplies 15,057
Surplus/Shortfall w/o WSCP Action 2,321
WSCP ‐ supply augmentation benefit
WSCP ‐ use reduction savings benefit
Revised Surplus/(shortfall) 2,321
Resulting % Use Reduction from WSCP action 0%
2024 Total
Total Water Use 12,854
Total Supplies 15,084
Surplus/Shortfall w/o WSCP Action 2,230
WSCP ‐ supply augmentation benefit
WSCP ‐ use reduction savings benefit
Revised Surplus/(shortfall) 2,230
Resulting % Use Reduction from WSCP action 0%
2025 Total
Total Water Use 12,971
Total Supplies 15,110
Surplus/Shortfall w/o WSCP Action 2,140
WSCP ‐ supply augmentation benefit
WSCP ‐ use reduction savings benefit
Revised Surplus/(shortfall) 2,140
Resulting % Use Reduction from WSCP action 0%
Submittal Table 7‐5: Five‐Year Drought Risk Assessment Tables to address Water Code Section 10635(b)
Planned WSCP Actions (use reduction and supply augmentation) Planned WSCP Actions (use reduction and supply augmentation) Planned WSCP Actions (use reduction and supply augmentation) Planned WSCP Actions (use reduction and supply augmentation) Planned WSCP Actions (use reduction and supply augmentation)

Shortage
Level
Percent Shortage
Range
Shortage Response Actions
(Narrative description)
1 Up to 10%
A Level 1 Water Supply Shortage condition exists when the City notifies its water users that due to drought, the supply reductions targets are up to 10%.
2 Up to 20%
A Level 1 Water Supply Shortage condition exists when the City notifies its water users that due to drought, the supply reductions targets are 11 to 20%.
3 Up to 30%
A Level 2 Water Supply Shortage condition exists when the City notifies its water users that due to drought, the supply reductions targets are 21 to 30%.
4 Up to 40%
A Level 2 Water Supply Shortage condition exists when the City notifies its water users that due to drought, the supply reductions targets are 31 to 35%.

A Level 3 Water Supply Shortage condition exists when the City notifies its water users that due to drought, the supply reductions targets are 36 to 40%.
5 Up to 50%
A Level 3 Water Supply Shortage condition exists when the City notifies its water users that due to drought, the supply reductions targets are 41 to 50%.
6 >50%
A Level 3 Water Supply Shortage condition exists when the City notifies its water users that due to drought, the supply reductions targets are greater than 50%
NOTES:

Submittal Table 8‐1
Water Shortage Contingency Plan Levels

Stage
Percent
Supply
Reduction
Water Supply Condition
Minor Shortage Potential
‐ Below average rainfall in the previous 12‐24 months
‐ 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
‐ Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
Moderate Shortage Potential
‐ Below average rainfall in the previous 24‐36 months
‐ Prolonged periods of low water pressure
‐ 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
‐ Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
Critical Shortage Potential
‐ Below average rainfall in the previous 36 months
‐ Prolonged periods of low water pressure
‐ 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
‐ Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
Submittal Table 8‐1 Water Shortage Contingency Plan Levels 10%‐20%
2 20%‐35%
3 35%‐50%
1

2020 Hanford WSCP
Stage Precent Supply
Reduction Water Supply Stage
1 Up to 10%
2 10 to 20%
3 20 to 30%
4 30 to 40%
5 40 to 50%
6 Greater than 50%
Corresponding
Relationship
("crosswalk")
DWR 6 Standard Water
Shortage Levels
3 2
1 0‐20%
Minor Shortage Potential
‐ Below average rainfall in the previous 12‐24 months
‐ 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
‐ Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
20%‐35%
Moderate Shortage Potential
‐ Below average rainfall in the previous 24‐36 months
‐ Prolonged periods of low water pressure
‐ 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
‐ Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
35%+
Critical Shortage Potential
‐ Below average rainfall in the previous 36 months
‐ Prolonged periods of low water pressure
‐ 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
‐ Warm weather patterns typical of summer months

Shortage
Level
Demand Reduction Actions
Drop down list
These are the only categories that will be accepted by the WUEdata online submittal tool. Select those that apply.

How much is this going to reduce the shortage gap?
Include units used (volume type or percentage)
Additional Explanation
or Reference
(optional)
Penalty, Charge, or
Other
Enforcement?
For Retail Suppliers Only
Drop Down List
1 Landscape ‐ Limit landscape irrigation to specific days Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying
water to any yard, ground, premises or vegetation except on the following designated days:
‐ Properties ending with even‐numbered addresses:

Tuesday and Saturday
‐ Properties ending with odd‐numbered addresses:

Wednesday and Sunday.

Yes
1 Landscape ‐ Limit landscape irrigation to specific days Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying
water to any yard, ground, premises or vegetation on
any day of the week between the hoursof 10 a.m. and 6
p.m. during periods designated as "daylight savings time" (generally occurring between March and November).

Yes
1 Landscape ‐ Other landscape restriction or prohibition Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying
water to any yard, ground, premises, or vegetation
except by the use of a hand‐held hose, a sprinkling
device or an approved sprinkler system controlled by an automatic shut‐off device or a person who is in
immediate attendance of the sprinkling device or system.

Yes
1 Landscape ‐ Other landscape restriction or prohibition Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying
water to any yard, ground, landscaping or vegetation
during and up to 48 hours after measurable rainfall.

Yes
1 Landscape ‐ Prohibit certain types of landscape irrigation Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying water to any ornamental turf or public street medians. Yes Submittal Table 8‐2: Demand Reduction Actions
Add additional rows as needed

1 Landscape ‐ Other landscape restriction or prohibition Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying
water to any yard, ground, landscaping or vegetation
outside of a newly constructed home or a building in a
manner inconsistent with regulations or other
requirements established by the California Building
Standards Commission and the California Department of
Housing and Community Development.

Yes
1 Landscape ‐ Restrict or prohibit runoff from landscape irrigation Prohibit water used to irrigate any yard, ground,
landscaping or vegetation to run or waste onto non‐
irrigated areas, private or public walkways, sidewalks, driveways, streets or adjoining or adjacent property.

Yes
1 Other ‐ Customers must repair leaks, breaks, and
malfunctions in a timely manner
Prohibit keeping, maintaining, operating, or using any
water connection, hose, faucet, hydrant, pipe, outlet, or plumbing fixture which is not tight and free from leakage and dripping.

Yes
1 Other
Prohibit washing any type of vehicle, boat or trailer with water supplied by a hose unless the hose is fitted with a shut‐off nozzle or device attached to it that causes it to cease dispensing water immediately when not in use.

Yes
1 Other ‐ Prohibit use of potable water for washing hard surfaces
Prohibit use of water for sidewalk, driveway, or walkway washing cleaning, except as required to address an
immediate public health or safety need.

Yes
1 Water Features ‐ Restrict water use for decorative
water features, such as fountains
Prohibit operation of water fountains or other decorative water fixtures without recirculation pumps. Yes
1 Other water feature or swimming pool restriction
Prohibit draining and filling of a swimming pool or similar water feature more than once during a one year period
(all pool drainage must occur pursuant to a permit issued by the City's public works department.

Yes
1 Other Prohibit willful of negligent waste of water in any manner.

Yes

1 CII ‐ Lodging establishment must offer opt out of linen service
Require operators of hotels and motels to provide guests with the option of choosing not to have towels and
linens laundered daily. Each hotel and motel shall
prominently display notice of this option in each
bathroom using clear and easily understood language.

Yes
1 Landscape ‐ Prohibit certain types of landscape
irrigation
Prohibit the planting of rye grass on any property that is serviced by the city's water system. Yes
1 Other
The city may issue Conditional Water Permits that allow the watering of new landscaping planted outside of
newly‐constructed buildings on days and/or times other
than those consistent with the current use restrictions.

Yes
1 Other ‐ Prohibit vehicle washing except at facilities using recycled or recirculating water
Prohibit charity and community vehicle wash events,
including any event at which an individual or a group,
which is not a commercial washing business operating
legally in the city, offers to the general public or portion thereof the service of washing, with water, any type of vehicle, boat, or trailer in exchange for a fee, donation, other form of compensation, or for no compensation.

Yes
1 Landscape ‐ Prohibit certain types of landscape
irrigation
Eliminate watering of ornamental turf areas. Water only actively used turf areas no more than twice per week.

Trees and shrubs may be water only twice per week
using a handheld hose with a positive shutoff nozzle or drip irrigation. Use of reclaimed water (if available), is exempt.

Yes
1 Landscape ‐ Limit landscape irrigation to specific days Water no more than twice per week using only hand‐
held hoses with positive shutoff nozzle or drip irrigation systems. Eliminate sprinkler use.

Yes
1 CII ‐ Restaurants may only serve water upon request Prohibit the serving of drinking water, other than upon request, in eating or drinking establishments. Yes

1 Other ‐ Customers must repair leaks, breaks, and
malfunctions in a timely manner
When a leak is discovered by a customer in a customer's water system and a customer is charged for water that it has not used, as a result of the leakage, it shall be policy of the city to aid the customer in locating the leak. If the leak is repaired by the customer within a period of ten days of the date the leak was discovered and the
customer can establish that a portion of the charges
identified in its water bill are in excess of the amount normally charged to the customer, that excess amount of water use caused by the leakage shall be charged to the customer at the standard water rate. If the leak is not repaired by the customer within the 10 day period, the
portion of the excess water usage which results from the leakage will be billed at two times the standard water
rate until the leak is repaired by the customer. The city shall give prompt notice to a customer if the city obtains information indicating that a leak may exist in the
customer's exclusive control.

Yes
1 Other ‐ Prohibit use of potable water for construction and dust control
All construction water must be reclaimed or non‐potable.

Issuance of construction meters will be only for testing and disinfection of potable water lines.

Yes
NOTES:

Shortage Level
Supply Augmentation Methods and Other
Actions by Water Supplier
Drop down list
These are the only categories that will be accepted
by the WUEdata online submittal tool
How much is this going to reduce the
shortage gap? Include units used
(volume type or percentage)
Additional Explanation or Reference
(optional)
Submittal Table 8‐3: Supply Augmentation and Other Actions Add additional rows as needed
NOTES:

City Name 60 Day Notice
Notice of Public
Hearing
County Name
Drop Down List
60 Day Notice
Notice of Public
Hearing
Kings County Yes Yes
NOTES:

Submittal Table 10‐1 Retail: Notification to Cities and Counties
Add additional rows as needed
Add additional rows as needed

SB X7‐7 Table 0: Units of Measure Used in UWMP*           (select one from the drop down list)
Acre Feet
*The unit of measure must be consistent with Submittal Table 2‐3 NOTES:

Parameter Value Units
2008 total water deliveries 12,741                     Acre Feet 2008 total volume of delivered recycled water                           ‐ Acre Feet 2008 recycled water as a percent of total deliveries 0% See Note 1 Number of years in baseline period1, 2
10 Years
Year beginning baseline period range 1995
Year ending baseline period range3 2004
Number of years in baseline period 5 Years
Year beginning baseline period range 2006
Year ending baseline period range4 2010
2 The Water Code requires that the baseline period is between 10 and 15 years. However, DWR recognizes that some water suppliers may not have the minimum 10 years of baseline data.

SB X7‐7 Table‐1: Baseline Period Ranges
1 If the 2008 recycled water delivery is less than 10 percent of total water deliveries, then the 10‐15year baseline period is a continuous 10‐year period.  If the amount of recycled water delivered in 2008 is 10 percent or greater of total deliveries, the 10‐15 year baseline period is a continuous 10‐ to 15‐year period.
3 The ending year for the 10‐15 year baseline period must be between December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2010. 4 The ending year for the 5 year baseline period must be between December 31, 2007 and December 31, 2010. 5‐year
baseline period
Baseline
10‐ to 15‐year
baseline period
NOTES:

NOTES:

SB X7‐7 Table 2: Method for Population Estimates
Method Used to Determine Population
(may check more than one)

1. Department of Finance  (DOF) or American Community
Survey (ACS)

3. DWR Population Tool

4. Other
DWR recommends pre‐review

2. Persons‐per‐Connection Method

Population
Year 1 1995                                     37,400
Year 2 1996                                     38,150
Year 3 1997                                     39,300
Year 4 1998                                     39,900
Year 5 1999                                     40,350
Year 6 2000                                     41,450
Year 7 2001                                     42,462
Year 8 2002                                     43,869
Year 9 2003                                     44,466
Year 10 2004                                     46,096 Year 11
Year 12
Year 13
Year 14
Year 15
Year 1 2006                                     48,920
Year 2 2007                                     50,534
Year 3 2008                                     51,922
Year 4 2009                                     52,970
Year 5 2010                                     53,967
SB X7‐7 Table 3: Service Area Population
10 to 15 Year Baseline Population
5 Year Baseline Population
NOTES:

Year

Acre Feet
Exported
Water
Change in
Dist. System
Storage
(+/‐)
Indirect
Recycled
Water
This column will
remain blank
until SB X7‐7
Table 4‐B is
completed.

Water
Delivered
for
Agricultural
Use
Process Water
This column will
remain blank
until SB X7‐7
Table 4‐D is
completed.

Annual Gross Water Use
Year 1 1995                           9,198                     ‐                          ‐                                           9,198 Year 2 1996                           9,348                     ‐                          ‐                                           9,348 Year 3 1997                         10,379                     ‐                          ‐                                         10,379 Year 4 1998                           8,704                     ‐                          ‐                                           8,704 Year 5 1999                           9,855                     ‐                          ‐                                           9,855 Year 6 2000                           9,649                     ‐                          ‐                                           9,649 Year 7 2001                           9,673                     ‐                          ‐                                           9,673 Year 8 2002                         10,502                     ‐                          ‐                                         10,502 Year 9 2003                         10,784                     ‐                          ‐                                         10,784 Year 10 2004                         11,260                     ‐                          ‐                                         11,260 Year 11 0                               ‐                     ‐                          ‐                                                 ‐ Year 12 0                               ‐                     ‐                          ‐                                                 ‐ Year 13 0                               ‐                     ‐                          ‐                                                 ‐ Year 14 0                               ‐                     ‐                          ‐                                                 ‐ Year 15 0                               ‐                     ‐                          ‐                                                 ‐ 9,935
Year 1 2006                         11,613                     ‐                          ‐                                         11,613 Year 2 2007                         12,930                     ‐                          ‐                                         12,930 Year 3 2008                         12,742                     ‐                          ‐                                         12,742 Year 4 2009                         12,792                     ‐                          ‐                                         12,792 Year 5 2010                         12,172                     ‐                          ‐                                         12,172 12,450
*  Units of measure (AF, MG , or CCF) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP,  as reported in Table 2‐3.

NOTES:

SB X7‐7 Table 4: Annual Gross Water Use *
10 to 15 Year Baseline ‐ Gross Water Use
10 ‐ 15 year baseline average gross water use
5 Year Baseline ‐ Gross Water Use
5 year baseline average gross water use
Baseline Year
Fm SB X7‐7 Table 3
Volume Into
Distribution System
This column will remain
blank until SB X7‐7 Table
4‐A is completed.

Deductions

Volume   Entering
Distribution
System1
Meter Error
Adjustment 2
Optional
(+/‐)
Corrected
Volume Entering
Distribution
System
Year 1 1995                       9,198                     9,198 Year 2 1996                       9,348                     9,348 Year 3 1997                    10,379                   10,379 Year 4 1998                       8,704                     8,704 Year 5 1999                       9,855                     9,855 Year 6 2000                       9,649                     9,649 Year 7 2001                       9,673                     9,673 Year 8 2002                    10,502                   10,502 Year 9 2003                    10,784                   10,784 Year 10 2004                    11,260                   11,260 Year 11 0                            ‐
Year 12 0                            ‐
Year 13 0                            ‐
Year 14 0                            ‐
Year 15 0                            ‐
Year 1 2006                    11,613                   11,613 Year 2 2007                    12,930                   12,930 Year 3 2008                    12,742                   12,742 Year 4 2009                    12,792                   12,792 Year 5 2010                    12,172                   12,172 SB X7‐7 Table 4‐A:  Volume Entering the Distribution System(s) Complete one table for each source.
10 to 15 Year Baseline ‐ Water into Distribution System 5 Year Baseline ‐ Water into Distribution System
Name of Source
Baseline Year
Fm SB X7‐7 Table 3
1   Units of measure (AF, MG , or CCF) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP,  as reported in Table 2‐3.
2 Meter Error Adjustment  ‐ See guidance in Methodology 1, Step 3 of Methodologies Document NOTES:

This water source is:

The supplier's own water source
A purchased or imported source
Tulare Lake Groundwater Subbasin

Service Area
Population
Fm SB X7‐7
Table 3
Annual Gross
Water Use
Fm SB X7‐7
Table 4
Daily Per
Capita Water
Use (GPCD)
Year 1 1995 37,400                                      9,198                  220 Year 2 1996 38,150                                      9,348                  219 Year 3 1997 39,300                                    10,379                  236 Year 4 1998 39,900                                      8,704                  195 Year 5 1999 40,350                                      9,855                  218 Year 6 2000 41,450                                      9,649                  208 Year 7 2001 42,462                                      9,673                  203 Year 8 2002 43,869                                    10,502                  214 Year 9 2003 44,466                                    10,784                  217 Year 10 2004 46,096                                    11,260                  218 Year 11 0                       ‐ ‐
Year 12 0                       ‐ ‐
Year 13 0                       ‐ ‐
Year 14 0                       ‐ ‐
Year 15 0                       ‐ ‐
215
Service Area
Population
Fm SB X7‐7
Table 3
Gross Water Use
Fm SB X7‐7
Table 4
Daily Per
Capita Water
Use
Year 1 2006                48,920                      11,613                    212 Year 2 2007                50,534                      12,930                    228 Year 3 2008                51,922                      12,742                    219 Year 4 2009                52,970                      12,792                    216 Year 5 2010                53,967                      12,172                    201 215
NOTES:
5 Year Average Baseline GPCD
Baseline Year
Fm SB X7‐7 Table 3
SB X7‐7 Table 5: Baseline Gallons Per Capita Per Day (GPCD) Baseline Year
Fm SB X7‐7 Table 3
10 to 15 Year Baseline GPCD
10‐15 Year Average Baseline GPCD
5 Year Baseline GPCD

215
215
SB X7‐7 Table 6: Baseline GPCD         Summary
From Table SB X7‐7 Table 5
10‐15 Year Baseline GPCD
5 Year Baseline GPCD
NOTES:

Supporting Tables
Method 1 SB X7‐7 Table 7A
Method 2 SB X7‐7 Tables 7B, 7C, and 7D
Method 3 SB X7‐7 Table 7‐E
Method 4
Method 4 Calculator           Located
in the WUE Data Portal at
wuedata.water.ca.gov Resources
button
SB X7‐7 Table 7: 2020 Target Method
Select Only One
Target Method
NOTES:

Agency May
Select More
Than One as
Applicable
Percentage of
Service Area
in This
Hydrological
Region
Hydrologic Region
"2020 Plan"
Regional
Targets
Method 3
Regional
Targets
(95%)
North Coast 137 130
North Lahontan 173 164
Sacramento River 176 167
San Francisco Bay 131 124
San Joaquin River 174 165
Central Coast 123 117
100% Tulare Lake 188 179
South Lahontan 170 162
South Coast 149 142
Colorado River 211 200
179
SB X7‐7 Table 7‐E: Target Method 3
2020 Target
(If more than one region is selected, this value is calculated.) NOTES:

Prorated 2020
Target
Population
Weighted
Average
2020 Target
215 205 179 179
SB X7‐7 Table 7‐F: Confirm Minimum Reduction for 2020 Target NOTES:
1 Maximum 2020 Target is 95% of the 5 Year Baseline GPCD except for suppliers at or below 100 GPCD. 2 Calculated 2020 Target is the target calculated by the Supplier based on the selected Target Method, see SB X7‐7 Table 7 and corresponding tables for agency's calculated target. Supplier may only enter one calculated target. 3 Prorated targets and population weighted target are allowed for special situations only. These situations are described in Appendix P, Section P.3                                                                                                                                                                                              4 Confirmed Target is the lesser of the Calculated 2020 Target (C5, D5, or E5) or the Maximum 2020 Target (Cell B5) Maximum 2020
Target1
5 Year
Baseline GPCD
From SB X7‐7
Table 5
Calculated
2020 Target 2
Special Situations3
Confirmed 2020
Target4
As calculated by
supplier in this
SB X7‐7
Verification
Form

SB X7‐7 Table 0: Units of Measure Used in 2020 UWMP*
(select one from the drop down list)
Acre Feet
*The unit of measure must be consistent throughout the UWMP, as reported in Submittal Table 2‐3.

NOTES:

NOTES: City of Hanford also supplied water to 651 accounts outside of the City Limit, which included 2,148 population.

SB X7‐7 Table 2: Method for 2020 Population Estimate
Method Used to Determine 2020 Population
(may check more than one)

1. Department of Finance (DOF) or
American Community Survey (ACS)

3. DWR Population Tool

4. Other
DWR recommends pre‐review

2. Persons‐per‐Connection Method

2020 61,326
SB X7‐7 Table 3: 2020 Service Area Population
2020 Compliance Year Population
NOTES: City of Hanford also supplied water to 651
accounts outside of the City Limit, which included 2,148 population.

Exported
Water *
Change in
Dist. System
Storage*
(+/‐)
Indirect
Recycled
Water
This column will
remain blank
until SB X7‐7
Table 4‐B is
completed.

Water
Delivered for
Agricultural
Use*
Process Water
This column will
remain blank
until SB X7‐7
Table 4‐D is
completed.
11,713                       ‐                           ‐    11,713 NOTES:

SB X7‐7 Table 4: 2020 Gross Water Use
2020 Volume
Into
Distribution
System
This column will
remain blank until
SB X7‐7 Table 4‐A
is completed.
2020 Gross Water
Use
2020 Deductions
* Units of measure (AF, MG , or CCF) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP, as reported in SB X7‐7 Table 0 and Submittal Table 2‐3.

Compliance
Year 2020

Volume Entering
Distribution System 1
Meter Error
Adjustment 2
Optional
(+/‐)
Corrected Volume
Entering
Distribution System
11,713 ‐ 11,713
SB X7‐7 Table 4‐A: 2020 Volume Entering the Distribution System(s), Meter Error Adjustment
Complete one table for each source.

Name of Source
1 Units of measure (AF, MG , or CCF) must remain consistent throughout the UWMP, as reported in SB X7‐7 Table 0 and Submittal Table 2‐3. 2 Meter
Error Adjustment  ‐ See guidance in Methodology 1, Step 3 of Methodologies Document NOTESThis water source is (check one) :

The supplier's own water source
A purchased or imported source
Tulare Lake Groundwater Subbasin
Compliance Year
2020

2020 Gross Water
Fm SB X7‐7 Table 4
2020 Population Fm
SB X7‐7 Table 3
2020 GPCD
11,713 61,326 171
SB X7‐7 Table 5: 2020 Gallons Per Capita Per Day
(GPCD)
NOTES:

Extraordinary
Events1
Weather
Normalization1
Economic
Adjustment1
171                         ‐                               ‐                          ‐    ‐ 171 179 YES NOTES:
1 All values are reported in GPCD2 2020 Confirmed Target GPCD is taken from the Supplier's SB X7‐7 Verification Form Table SB X7‐7, 7‐F.

SB X7‐7 Table 9: 2020 Compliance
Optional Adjustments to 2020 GPCD Did Supplier
Achieve
Targeted
Reduction for
2020?
Actual 2020
GPCD1
2020 Confirmed
Target GPCD 1, 2 TOTAL Adjustments1
Adjusted 2020
GPCD 1
(Adjusted if
applicable)
Enter "0" if Adjustment Not Used

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APPENDIX B
Reclamation Project Agreement

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APPENDIX C
Groundwater Sustainability Analysis

Table 1  Estimated Subbasins Sustainable Yield
Urban Water Manangment Plan
City of Hanford
Tulare Lake Groundwater subbasin1
Basin Area (acres) 535,869
Average groundwater pumping (AFY) 348,700
Average net recharge (AFY) 335,360
Groundwater Overdraft (AFY) ‐13,340
Estimated Sustainable Yield (AFY) 335,360
Sustainable Yield per Unit Area (AFY/acre) 0.63
City of Hanford
Planning Area (acres) 16,032
Sustainable Yield per Unit Area (AFY/acre) 0.63
Estimated Sustainable Yield (AFY) 10,033
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Notes:

1. Source: Tulare Lake Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan, January 2020.

Estimate of Ststainable Yield

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APPENDIX D
Water Shortage Contingency Plan

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FINAL

Acknowledgements
City Council
Francisco Ramirez, Mayor
Diane Sharp, Vice Mayor
Amanda Saltray
Kalish Morrow
Art Brieno
Management Personnel
John Doyel, Director of Public Works
Jim Ross, Deputy Public Works Director
Christine Baca, Regulatory Compliance Analyst
Bob Williams, Utilities Supervisor

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Table of Contents Page No.

Section 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 1 Section 2 WATER SUPPLY RELIABILITY ANALYSIS ..................................................... 1 Section 3 ANNUAL WATER SUPPLY AND DEMAND ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES . 2

3.1 Decision Making Process ................................................................................. 3

3.2 Data and Methodologies .................................................................................. 4

3.2.1 Evaluation Criteria .......................................................................... 4

3.2.2 Water Supply.................................................................................. 5

3.2.3 Current Year Unconstrained Customer Demand ........................... 5

3.2.4 Current Year Available Supply ....................................................... 5

3.2.5 Infrastructure Considerations ......................................................... 5 Section 4 WATER SHORTAGE LEVELS ......................................................................... 6 Section 5 SHORTAGE RESPONSE ACTIONS ................................................................ 7

5.1 Demand Reduction .......................................................................................... 7

5.2 Supply Augmentation ....................................................................................... 8

5.3 Operation Changes .......................................................................................... 8

5.4 Additional Mandatory Restrictions ................................................................... 8

5.5 Emergency Response Plan ............................................................................. 8

5.6 Seismic Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan ................................................ 14

5.7 Shortage Response Action Effectiveness ........................................................ 14 Section 6 COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS ................................................................... 14 Section 7 COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT ............................................................. 15 Section 8 LEGAL AUTHORITIES ..................................................................................... 16 Section 9 FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF WSCP ACTIVATION................................ 16 Section 10 MONITORING AND REPORTING .................................................................... 17 Section 11 WSCP REFINEMENT PROCEDURES ............................................................. 18 Section 12 SPECIAL WATER FEATURE DISTINCTION ................................................... 18 Section 13 PLAN ADOPTION, SUBMITTAL, AND AVAILABILITY ..................................... 18

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Figures Page No.

Figure 3-1 Annual Assessment Report Timeline .................................................................... 3 Tables Page No.

Table 4-1 Water Shortage Contingency Plan Levels ............................................................ 7 Table 5-1 Demand Reduction Actions .................................................................................. 9 Table 9-1 Financial Consequences of WSCP…………………………………………………..17 Appendices
Appendix A Water Shortage Level Comparison
Appendix B Urban Water Management Plan Adoption Resolution and Notifications

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Section 1 INTRODUCTION
This report documents the City of Hanford’s Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP). This 2020 WSCP document builds upon previous water shortage contingency planning efforts completed by the City and documented in the 2010 and 2015 Urban Water Management Plans (UWMP). This WSCP reflects updates to the City’s water shortage levels and water conservation measures for consistency with state-wide requirements provided by the Department of Water Resources. As part of the 2020 UWMP update, the Department of Water Resources requires urban water suppliers to prepare a stand-alone 2020 WSCP, that is separate from the 2020 UWMP, and intended to manage a water shortage. As the City continues to monitor the effectiveness of the WSCP, this document can be updated and adopted separately from the UWMP.

Though it is a stand-alone document, the 2020 WSCP is still considered one of the elements of the 2020 UWMP, as required by the State Law.

Based on Department of Water Resources (DWR) requirements, and consistent with previous planning efforts, this WSCP includes the following sections:
 Water Supply Reliability Analysis
 Annual Water Supply and Demand Assessment
 Shortage Response Actions
 Communication Protocols
 Compliance and Enforcement
 Legal Authorities
 Financial Consequences of WSCP Activation
 Monitoring and Reporting
 Special Water Feature Distinction
 Plan Adoption, Submittal, and Availability
Section 2 WATER SUPPLY RELIABILITY ANALYSIS
Law
The City currently uses groundwater as the sole source of water supply, with wells extracting water from the Tulare Lake Subbasin of the San Joaquin Valley Groundwater Basin. These groundwater basins are managed by Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency, and the 2020 Tulare Lake Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan lists the rates of natural recharge for these groundwater supply sources. Consistent with previous planning efforts, the City’s Water 10632 (a)(1) The analysis of water supply reliability conducted pursuant to Section 10635.

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Supply Reliability Analysis, the available supply drawn from the aquifer in any year is equal to the system-wide water demand for that particular year.

As part of the 2020 UWMP the City has also prepared a Drought Risk Assessment (DRA), which is a proactive planning review that readies the City for worst-case water supply conditions should they occur in the immediate future. The DRA compares the City’s projected demands over the next five years to estimated available supplies should a five-year dry period occur. The results of the DRA prepared as part of the 2020 UWMP indicate that the City has sufficient supplies to meet projected demands over the next five years.

Section 3 ANNUAL WATER SUPPLY AND DEMAND ASSESSMENT

PROCEDURES
Law
Updates to the California Water Code now require that urban water suppliers prepare a water supply and demand assessment on an annual basis (Annual Assessment). The findings of this Annual Assessment will be summarized in a report submitted to the DWR by July 1st of each calendar year, with the first report required for submission on July 1st, 2022. The purpose of this annual assessment is to ensure water suppliers are proactively considering the available water 10632 (a)(2) The procedures used in conducting an annual water supply and demand assessment that include, at a minimum, both of the following:
(A) The written decision-making process that an urban water supplier will use each year to determine its water supply reliability.
(B) The key data inputs and assessment methodology used to evaluate the urban water supplier’s water supply reliability for the current year and one dry year, including all of the following:
(i) Current year unconstrained demand, considering weather, growth, and other influencing factors, such as policies to manage current supplies to meet demand objectives in future years, as applicable.
(ii) Current year available supply, considering hydrological and regulatory conditions in the current year and one dry year. The annual supply and demand assessment may consider more than one dry year solely at the discretion of the urban water supplier. (iii) Existing infrastructure capabilities and plausible constraints. (iv) A defined set of locally applicable evaluation criteria that are consistently relied upon for each annual water supply and demand assessment. (v) A description and quantification of each source of water supply. 10632.1 An urban water supplier shall conduct an annual water supply and demand assessment pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 10632 and, on or before July 1 of each year, submit an annual water shortage assessment report to the department with information for anticipated shortage, triggered shortage response actions, compliance and enforcement actions, and communication actions consistent with the supplier’s water shortage contingency plan. An urban water supplier that relies on imported water from the State Water Project or the Bureau of Reclamation shall submit its annual water supply and demand assessment within 14 days of receiving its final allocations, or by July 1 of each year, whichever is later.

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supplies and service area demand requirements, as well as identifying the potential need for implementing the Water Shortage Contingency Plan.

It should be noted that DWR is in the process of preparing a stand-alone guidance document that will outline general procedures to aid urban water suppliers in preparing the Annual Assessment.

The decision-making process and Annual Assessment completion steps are preliminary at this point in time and will be further refined as the guidance document by DWR is completed.

3.1 Decision Making Process
This section describes the decision-making process to prepare and approve the Annual Assessment each year. It should be noted that the Annual Assessment and decision-making process will rely on the findings of the Tulare Lake Subbasin Annual Report, which will include documentation of available water supply information and any subbasin-wide required water shortage actions to be implemented.

Figure 3‐1 Annual Assessment Report Timeline
September to February – Ongoing Monitoring and Review
For the majority of the year, City staff will continue to monitor and report monthly water consumption and production. This information will be used when the Annual Assessment is initiated to prepare a year-to-year comparison of system-wide water demands for the purpose of projecting demands for the following year.

March – Initiate WSCP Annual Assessment
City staff will initiate the Annual Assessment process by gathering the collected demand and production data. Other relevant information includes but is not limited to the following:

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 Land Use/Planning: Changes in land use or number of building permits will be used in estimating the next year’s demands.
 Hydrologic Year Review: The City’s wet year typically ends in April and rainfall information over the past year can be gathered and reviewed.
 Climate Forecast: Any available climate projection information The purpose of gathering this information will be to compare the various factors that affect water demand throughout the City’s service area. This comparison will guide the City’s projection for water demand in the upcoming year.

April – Review Available Supply Information
According to the Tulare Lake Groundwater Sustainability Plan, a Groundwater Annual Report will be completed by the month of April. City staff will review this document once available and use it as a basis for estimating the available supply in the upcoming year. If required, City staff will also prepare to initiate any water shortage response actions noted by Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency.

May – City Council Review of Annual Assessment
The draft of Annual Assessment will be presented to City Council for their information and discussion. If water shortage actions are recommended by the Annual Assessment, the City Council will be asked to begin the implementation of the recommended actions.

June – Finalize Annual Assessment
The Annual Assessment is finalized based on any feedback received during the City Council review process.

July – Submit Annual Assessment
The Annual Assessment will be submitted to DWR on or before July 1st.

3.2 Data and Methodologies
This section describes the key data and methodologies used in the preparation of the Annual Assessment. This includes historical water supply information, historical and projected water demand, demand and projected water supply demand, which city uses to evaluate their water supply reliability for a normal and a dry subsequent year.

3.2.1 Evaluation Criteria
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wide review of available water supplies prepared by Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Kings County Water District, or other local groundwater planning agencies. The demand projections will be prepared using a combination of factors, including a comparison to historical demand, land use changes, building permits, and historical rainfall. The City will continue to review its Annual Assessment preparation process, and additional criteria may be added if considered appropriate.

3.2.2 Water Supply
The City currently relies on groundwater as the sole source of supply. There are numerous groundwater wells used by the City, each of which is monitored and has production reported on a monthly basis. These monthly production records will be used to characterize the City’s current water production requirement and compared to previous years to estimate production requirements for the upcoming year.

As the Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Mid-Kings River GSA manages water supplies within the Tulare Lake Subbasin; this also includes the Mid-Kings River Subarea, which is used by the City for supply. The water supply analysis prepared by each GSAs within the Tulare Lake Subbasin in preparation of their Annual Report will provide a critical basis for water supply assumptions, regarding available water supply volumes and any pumping restrictions required to be implemented if any.

3.2.3 Current Year Unconstrained Customer Demand
Billed water consumption is reported on a monthly basis and will be used to characterize the current water consumption requirements for the City. The monthly records will be compared to corresponding months of the previous year to identify any significant changes in water use behavior throughout the City’s service area. In addition to consumption records, known recent developments or current building permits will enable City staff to estimate changes to water demand in the upcoming year.

3.2.4 Current Year Available Supply
The Annual Assessment estimates the current year available supply for current hydrological conditions as well as a possible subsequent dry year. The supply estimate will be based on the Drought Risk Assessment supply estimation methodology documented in the 2020 UWMP and it will also incorporate information from the Tulare Lake Groundwater Annual Report and Mid-Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency.

3.2.5 Infrastructure Considerations
The annual assessment will include a review of any ongoing capital projects that are expected to affect the demands and supply projections. Examples of such capital projects include water loss reductions, distribution expansion to serve the growth, or new groundwater wells.

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Section 4 WATER SHORTAGE LEVELS
Law
The City’s current water shortage contingency plan includes three water shortage levels. These water shortage stages reflect potential supply reductions due to reductions in average rainfall, groundwater well issues, or extended periods of summer weather. The City’s water shortage levels are documented in Table 4-1. The comparison between the City’s water shortage levels and the DWR recommended 6-level framework is provided in Appendix A.

Identifying the appropriate shortage level will be in accordance with the procedures outlined in Section 3 – Annual Water Supply and Demand Assessment Procedures. With recommendations from City staff, the City Council has the authority to declare the appropriate conservation level considered necessary to manage the system demands and mitigate the water shortage. The City Council can also downgrade, upgrade, or terminate a shortage response level based on City staff recommendations.

The City’s groundwater supply is dependent on recharge from surface water sources as well as deep percolation of applied irrigation water. In periods of drought when the natural recharge sources are less than in typical years, the basin is at risk of overdraft. In order to reduce water consumption city-wide, the City’s water conservation ordinance will be amended as necessary to respond to severe, prolonged drought.

As part of the City’s efforts to conserve water, the City has permanent water use prohibitions in place. Additionally, the City’s conservation ordinance describes a multiple-stage water conservation plan. Each water rationing stage includes a water demand reduction percentage, which is to be applied to normal water demands. The plan is dependent on the cause, severity, and anticipated duration of the water shortage, and a combination of voluntary and mandatory water conservation measures, which can be put in place to reduce City-wide water usage. City manager and Council have the authority to implement additional conservation measures as needed.

10632 (a)(1) Stages of action to be undertaken by the urban water supplier in response to water supply shortages, including up to a 50 percent reduction in water supply and an outline of specific water supply conditions which are applicable to each stage. 10632 (a)(3)
(A) Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 percent shortages and greater than 50 percent shortage. Urban water suppliers shall define these shortage levels based on the suppliers’ water supply conditions, including groundwater levels, changes in surface elevation or level of subsidence, or other changes in hydrological or other local conditions indicative of the water supply available for use. Shortage levels shall also apply to catastrophic interruption of water supplies, including but not limited to, a regional power outrage, an earthquake, and other potential emergency events. (B) An urban water supplier with an existing water shortage contingency plan that uses different water shortage levels may comply with the requirement in subparagraph (A) by developing and including a cross-reference relating its existing categories to the six standard water shortage

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Table 4‐1   Water Shortage Contingency Plan Levels
Stage   Percent Supply
Reduction  Water Supply Condition
1  10%‐20%
Minor Shortage Potential
‐ Below average rainfall in the previous 12‐24 months
‐ 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
‐ Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
2   20%‐35%
Moderate Shortage Potential
‐ Below average rainfall in the previous 24‐36 months
‐ Prolonged periods of low water pressure
‐ 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
‐ Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
3   35%‐50%
Critical Shortage Potential
‐ Below average rainfall in the previous 36 months
‐ Prolonged periods of low water pressure
‐ 10 percent or more of municipal wells out of service
‐ Warm weather patterns typical of summer months
Section 5 SHORTAGE RESPONSE ACTIONS
Law
Pursuant to the CWC 10632 (a) (4), this section documented the detailed shortage response actions which align with the shortage levels into different categories.

5.1 Demand Reduction
There are a number of demand reduction measures an urban water supplier can implement as response actions to corresponded water shortage levels. Some of these may include watering and outdoor water usage prohibitions, water rate structure changes, public educations or water supply service adjustments. Other demand reduction such as infrastructure improvement or replacing, water-efficient assets installation are considered as long-term water demand reductions will not be listed in this water shortage contingency plan.
10632 (a)(4) Shortage response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(F) Locally appropriate supply augmentation actions.
(G) Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages. (H) Locally appropriate operational changes
(I) Additional, mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions. (J) For each action, an estimate of the extent to which the gap between supplies and demand will be reduced by implementation of the action.

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consumption reduction actions are summarized in Table 5-1. The permanent water use restrictions enforced year-round are also documented in the table.

5.2 Supply Augmentation
As noted in previous sections, groundwater is the City’s sole source of potable water supply, and there are no known opportunities for water supply augmentation through actions such as exchanges, transfers, or purchase programs. Therefore, supply augmentation actions are excluded from the City’s Water Shortage Contingency Plan at this time.

5.3 Operation Changes
During a water shortage, changes to water system operations may be considered. These operational changes may include improving water usage consumption and tracking, changes to fire hydrant testing frequencies, alteration in maintenance cycles, and expedited water leak repairs.

5.4 Additional Mandatory Restrictions
Additional mandatory restrictions have been reported in a previous section.

5.5 Emergency Response Plan
The City has a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, most recently updated in 2012, that provides a framework for the City to address a catastrophic supply interruption due to various hazards, including seismic, geological, wildfire, and flooding hazards. The plan is intended to define the actions required of the City before, during, and after an emergency. It also guides the City’s response to major emergencies and disasters.

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Table 5‐1   Demand Reduction Actions
Level
Restrictions and
Prohibitions on
End Users Category
Additional Explanation or Reference
Penalty, Charge,
or Other
Enforcement?
1‐3
Landscape ‐ Limit landscape irrigation to specific days Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying water to any yard, ground, premises or vegetation except on the following designated days:‐ Properties ending with even‐numbered addresses: Tuesday and Saturday ‐ Properties ending with odd‐numbered addresses: Wednesday and Sunday.

Yes
1‐3
Landscape ‐ Limit landscape irrigation to specific days Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying water to any yard, ground, premises or vegetation on any day of the week between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. during periods designated as "daylight savings time" (generally occurring between March and November).

Yes
1‐3
Landscape ‐ Other landscape restriction or prohibition
Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying water to any yard, ground, premises, or vegetation except by the use of a hand‐held hose, a sprinkling device or an approved sprinkler system controlled by an automatic shut‐off device or a person who is in immediate attendance of the sprinkling device or system.

Yes
1‐3
Landscape ‐ Other landscape restriction or prohibition
Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying water to any yard, ground, landscaping or vegetation during and up to 48 hours after measurable rainfall.  Yes 1‐3
Landscape ‐ Prohibit certain types of landscape irrigation Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying water to any ornamental turf or public street medians.  Yes

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Table 5‐1   Demand Reduction Actions
Level
Restrictions and
Prohibitions on End
Users Category
Additional Explanation or Reference
Penalty, Charge,
or Other
Enforcement?
1‐3
Landscape ‐ Other landscape restriction or prohibition
Prohibit sprinkling, irrigating, or otherwise applying water to any yard, ground, landscaping or vegetation outside of a newly constructed home or a building in a manner inconsistent with regulations or other requirements established by the California Building Standards Commission and the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

Yes
1‐3
Landscape ‐ Restrict or prohibit runoff from landscape irrigation Prohibit water used to irrigate any yard, ground, landscaping or vegetation to run or waste onto non‐irrigated areas, private or public walkways, sidewalks, driveways, streets or adjoining or adjacent property.

Yes
1‐3
Other ‐ Customers must repair leaks, breaks, and malfunctions in a timely manner Prohibit keeping, maintaining, operating, or using any water connection, hose, faucet, hydrant, pipe, outlet, or plumbing fixture which is not tight and free from leakage and dripping.

Yes
1‐3  Other
Prohibit washing any type of vehicle, boat or trailer with water supplied by a hose unless the hose is fitted with a shut‐off nozzle or device attached to it that causes it to cease dispensing water immediately when not in use.

Yes
1‐3
Other ‐ Prohibit use of potable water for washing hard surfaces Prohibit use of water for sidewalk, driveway, or walkway washing cleaning, except as required to address an immediate public health or safety need.  Yes 1‐3
Water Features ‐ Restrict water use for decorative water features, such as fountains Prohibit operation of water fountains or other decorative water fixtures without recirculation pumps.  Yes 1‐3
Other water feature or swimming pool restriction
Prohibit draining and filling of a swimming pool or similar water feature more than once during a one year period (all pool drainage must occur pursuant to a permit issued by the City's public works department.

Yes

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Table 5‐1   Demand Reduction Actions
Level
Restrictions and
Prohibitions on
End Users Category
Additional Explanation or Reference
Penalty, Charge,
or Other
Enforcement?
1‐3  Other  Prohibit willful of negligent waste of water in any manner.  Yes 1‐3 CII ‐ Lodging establishment must offer opt out of linen service Require operators of hotels and motels to provide guests with the option of choosing not to have towels and linens laundered daily. Each hotel and motel shall prominently display notice of this option in each bathroom using clear and easily understood language.

Yes
1‐3
Landscape ‐ Prohibit certain types of landscape irrigation Prohibit the planting of rye grass on any property that is serviced by the city's water system.

Yes
1‐3  Other
The city may issue Conditional Water Permits that allow the watering of new landscaping planted outside of newly‐constructed buildings on days and/or times other than those consistent with the current use restrictions.

Yes
1‐3
Other ‐ Prohibit vehicle washing except at facilities using recycled or recirculating water Prohibit charity and community vehicle wash events, including any event at which an individual or a group, which is not a commercial washing business operating legally in the city, offers to the general public or portion thereof the service of washing, with water, any type of vehicle, boat, or trailer in exchange for a fee, donation, other form of compensation, or for no compensation.

Yes

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Table 5‐1   Demand Reduction Actions
Level
Restrictions and
Prohibitions on
End Users Category
Additional Explanation or Reference
Penalty, Charge,
or Other
Enforcement?
1‐3
Landscape ‐ Prohibit certain types of landscape irrigation Eliminate watering of ornamental turf areas. Water only actively used turf areas no more than twice per week. Trees and shrubs may be water only twice per week using a handheld hose with a positive shutoff nozzle or drip irrigation. Use of reclaimed water (if available), is exempt.

Yes
1‐3
Landscape ‐ Limit landscape irrigation to specific days Water no more than twice per week using only hand‐held hoses with positive shutoff nozzle or drip irrigation systems. Eliminate sprinkler use.  Yes 1‐3
CII ‐ Restaurants may only serve water upon request
Prohibit the serving of drinking water, other than upon request, in eating or drinking establishments.  Yes

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Table 5‐1   Demand Reduction Actions
Level
Restrictions and
Prohibitions on End
Users Category
Additional Explanation or Reference
Penalty, Charge,
or Other
Enforcement?
1‐3
Other ‐ Customers must repair leaks, breaks, and malfunctions in a timely manner When a leak is discovered by a customer in a customer's water system and a customer is charged for water that it has not used, as a result of the leakage, it shall be policy of the city to aid the customer in locating the leak. If the leak is repaired by the customer within a period of ten days of the date the leak was discovered and the customer can establish that a portion of the charges identified in its water bill are in excess of the amount normally charged to the customer, that excess amount of water use caused by the leakage shall be charged to the customer at the standard water rate. If the leak is not repaired by the customer within the 10 day period, the portion of the excess water usage which results from the leakage will be billed at two times the standard water rate until the leak is repaired by the customer. The city shall give prompt notice to a customer if the city obtains information indicating that a leak may exist in the customer's exclusive control.

Yes
1‐3
Other ‐ Prohibit use of potable water for construction and dust control All construction water must be reclaimed or non‐potable. Issuance of construction meters will be only for testing and disinfection of potable water lines.

Yes

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5.6 Seismic Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan
Law
In addition to the emergency response plan described in a previous section, the California Water Code now requires urban water suppliers to document a locally appropriate multi-hazard mitigation plan, as developed under the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, that includes documentation of seismic risk assessment. Kings County developed such a hazard mitigation plan in December 2012. The City’s service area is included in the boundaries reviewed as part of this mitigation plan.

5.7 Shortage Response Action Effectiveness
In addition to documenting demand reduction actions the 2020 UWMP also estimates the effectiveness of these actions on reducing system-wide demand. The City records water consumption and production on a monthly basis, and this data can be used to estimate the effect of any demand reduction actions implemented.

Section 6 COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS
Law
When the City identifies the need for short-term water use reductions as directed by the Water Shortage Contingency Plan or Annual Assessment, clear and effective communication will be critical to achieve the necessary demand reductions. Methods of public notification include newspaper publications, bill inserts, City website announcements, social media posts, and press 10632.5 (a) In addition to the requirements of paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 10632, beginning January 1, 2020, the plan shall include a seismic risk assessment and mitigation plan to assess the vulnerability of each of the various facilities of a water system and mitigate those vulnerabilities.
(b) An urban water supplier shall update the seismic risk assessment and mitigation plan when updating its urban water management plan as required by Section 10621. (c) An urban water supplier may comply with this section by submitting, pursuant to Section 10644, a copy of the most recent adopted local hazard mitigation plan or multi-hazard mitigation plan under the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-390) if the local hazard mitigation plan or multi-hazard mitigation plan addresses seismic risk. 10632 (a)(5) Communication protocols and procedures to inform customers, the public, interested parties, and local, regional, and state governments, regarding, at a minimum, and of the following:
(A) Any current or predicted shortages as determined by the annual water supply and demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1. (B) Any shortage response actions triggered or anticipated to be triggered by the annual water supply and demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1. (C) Any other relevant communications.

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releases or informational campaigns. These public notification methods would be implemented in the event of a Level 2 Water Shortage and would increase in frequency in the event of a Level 3 Water Shortage.

Section 7 COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT
Law
Customers who violate the provisions noted in the water code for water shortage conditions shall receive, in accordance with the Amended Hanford Municipal Code Section 13.04.150, the following:
 The first violation shall result in a written notice of the violation from Public Works Department personnel or police department.
 The second violation shall result in a written notice of the violation and a penalty of fifty dollars imposed on the customer’s water bill.
 The third violation shall result in a written notice of the violation. Additionally, for unmetered customers, a water meter shall be installed by the city to monitor all water usage on the property. Water meter purchasing cost and installation fees shall be billed to the customer and are due within thirty days of the billing. Metered customers shall have a penalty of one hundred dollars imposed on their water bill.  The fourth violation shall result in a written notice of the violation and a penalty of two hundred dollar penalty shall be imposed on the customer’s water bill. 10632 (a) (6) For an urban retail water supplier, customer compliance, enforcement, appeal, and exemption procedures for triggered shortage response actions as determined pursuant to Section 10632.2.

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Section 8 LEGAL AUTHORITIES
Law
This City has the legal authority to implement and enforce its water shortage response actions and relative penalties, water charge adjustments, and water service alteration or prohibition. City Urgency Ordinance 15-06, which amended the water supply shortage regulations for the City in June 2015, documents the demand reduction measures as well as enforcement protocols.

Section 9 FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF WSCP ACTIVATION
Law
The activation of the Water Shortage Contingency Plan and related Water Shortage Levels have financial consequences for the City. Reduced water consumption will contribute to reduced revenue, while proactive operational practices will contribute to higher operational and maintenance costs. Currently, the City maintains some funds as rate stabilization reserves as well as approximately 60 days of operating reserves. In addition, the City Council has the authority to increase water rates to offset reduced revenues. These reserve funds or rate modifications have the ability to mitigate financial consequences of the Water Shortage Contingency Plan. 10632 (a) (7) (A) A description of the legal authorities that empower the urban water supplier to implement and enforce its shortage response actions specified in paragraph (4) that may include, but are not limited to, statutory authorities, ordinances, resolutions, and contract provisions.
(B) A statement that an urban water supplier shall declare a water shortage emergency in accordance with Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 350) of Division 1. [see below] (C) A statement that an urban water supplier shall coordinate with any city or county within which it provides water supply services for the possible proclamation of a local emergency, as defined in Section 8558 of the Government Code.

Water Code Section Division 1, Section 350
Declaration of water shortage emergency condition. The 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.
10632 (a) (8) A description of the financial consequences of, and responses for, drought conditions, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(A) A description of potential revenue reductions and expense increases associated with activated shortage response actions described in paragraph (4). (B) A description of mitigation actions needed to address revenue reductions and expense increases associated with activated shortage response actions described in paragraph (4).
(C) A description of the cost of compliance with Chapter 3.3 (commencing with Section 365) of Division 1. [retail urban suppliers only]

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Additionally, potential mitigation actions are documented in Table 9-1. These are preliminary actions and would be evaluated in more detail should a water shortage occur.

Table 9-1 Financial Consequences of WSCP
Stage Supply
Reduction
Financial
Consequences
Anticipated Mitigation
Actions
0 None None
Funding provided for
supplemental water supply
reserve.
1 10%-20%
Potential increase in
O&M expenses and mild
reduction in revenue.

Reduce O&M costs and
identify supplemental funding
sources.
3 21%-35%
Moderate increase to
O&M expenses and
decrease in revenue.

Defer capital expenditures
and consider use of
reserves.
2 35%-50%+
Significant increases to
O&M and decreases in
revenue.

Implement long-term O&M
budget reductions.

Section 10 MONITORING AND REPORTING
Law
Monitoring and reporting as part of the Water Shortage Contingency Plan and Annual Assessment will be based on the metered production and consumption data. Ongoing review of this information, and comparisons to historical data for similar months, will enable the City to monitor the effectiveness of the WSCP measures. Additionally, due to implemented shortage response actions and water shortage levels, the City’s Water Department may increase the frequency of reading meters in order to collect, track, and analyze the water use. 10632 (a) (9) For an urban retail water supplier, monitoring and reporting requirements and procedures that ensure appropriate data is collected, tracked, and analyzed for purposes of monitoring customer compliance and to meet state reporting requirements.

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Section 11 WSCP REFINEMENT PROCEDURES
Law
While the WSCP is a standalone document adopted separately from the 2020 UWMP it should be considered a dynamic planning tool and be subject to ongoing refinement efforts as necessary.

Following the declaration of a water shortage and implementation of the WSCP, the monitoring and reporting steps described in a previous section will provide valuable insight into the effectiveness of the WSCP. City staff will evaluate the effectiveness of communication protocols, demand reduction actions, operational changes, or financial consequence mitigation. If this review reveals opportunities for procedural refinements or new WSCP actions, City staff may elect to incorporate these items into an amended version of the WSCP.

Section 12 SPECIAL WATER FEATURE DISTINCTION
Law
The California Water Code requires urban water suppliers to distinguish between water features that are artificially supplied with water as opposed to swimming pools and spas. The City’s current demand reduction actions include this distinction, as documented in a previous section.

Section 13 PLAN ADOPTION, SUBMITTAL, AND AVAILABILITY
Law
The WSCP adoption and submittal process, as well as the public availability, are the same as those for the City’s UWMP. However, the WSCP may be periodically amended independently from the City’s UWMP. Should an amendment to the WSCP be implemented, stakeholder and public notification methods consistent with the UWMP will be performed prior to the adoption of the amended plan.
10632 (a) (10) Reevaluation and improvement procedures for systematically monitoring and evaluating the functionality of the water shortage contingency plan in order to ensure shortage risk tolerance is adequate and appropriate water shortage mitigation strategies are implemented as needed
10632 (b) For purposes of developing the water shortage contingency plan pursuant to subdivision (a), an urban water supplier shall analyze and define water features that are artificially supplied with water, including ponds, lakes, waterfalls, and fountains, separately from swimming pools and spas, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 115921 of the Health and Safety Code.
10632 (c) The urban water supplier shall make available the water shortage contingency plan prepared pursuant to this article to its customers and any city or county within which it provides water supplies no later than 30 days after adoption of the water shortage contingency plan.

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APPENDIX A
Water Shortage Level Comparison

Stage
Percentage
Supply
Reduction
Water Supply Stage
12356
40 to 50%
Greater than 50%
4 30 to 40%
2015 Hanford WSCP Corresponding
Relationship
("Crosswalk")
3 35 to 50% Critical Shortage Potential2
Six Standard Stages
DWR 6 Standard
Water Shortage
Levels
Up to 10%
10 to 20%20 to 30% 20 to 35% Moderate Shortage Potential 1 10 to 20% Minor Shortage Potential

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APPENDIX B
Urban Water Management Plan Adoption
Resolution and Notifications

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AUTHORIZATION
Under this agreement rates are subject to change with 30 days notice. In the event of a cancellation before schedule completion, I understand that the rate charged will be based upon the rate for the number of insertions used. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Name (print or type) Name (signature)
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Public Notice
Notice of Public Hearing
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Hanford, California, will hold an informational session on October 5, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. followed by a Public Hearing on October 5, at 7:00 p.m. or as soon as possible thereafter, in the City of Council Chambers located at 400 Douty Street, Hanford, California to consider the following matter:

PUBLIC HEARING ON URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN & WATER
SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR 2020
The Hanford City Council will hold a Public Hearing to receive comments from the public on the final draft of the City of Hanford 2020 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) and 2020 Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP). The City is preparing its 2020 UWMP to continue to provide adequate water supplies to meet existing and future water demands within Citys Urban Growth Boundary. The 2020 UWMP updates the information in the existing 2015 UWMP and provides an overview of the Citys efficient water uses, water supplies, and demand management measures.

Additionally, the 2020 WSCP builds upon previous planning efforts and outlines the Citys plan to address potential future water shortages. At the conclusion of receipt of comments by the public, the Public Hearing will be closed.

Written communications may be filed prior to the Public Hearing. Questions or comments regarding the plans should be emailed to
[email protected]. The final draft plans are available for review at the City Clerks office at 319 N. Douty Street, Hanford CA, Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Further detail may be obtained from the City of Hanford Public Works department at (559) 585- 2550. The final draft plan can be viewed and downloaded at:
https://www.cityofhanfordca.com
ADOPTION OF THE 2020 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN and
2020 WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN
At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Hanford City Council on October 19, 2021, the City Council will also consider adoption of a resolution approving the City of Hanford 2020 UWMP and 2020 WSCP and directing staff to submit the plan to the State Department of Water Resources.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF HANFORD.

Publish September 17, 25, 2021

October 2021 City of Hanford
2020 Urban Water Management Plan
City of Hanford

APPENDIX E
Water Rate Structure

RESOLUTION NO. 15-60-R

RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HANFORD

MODIFYING WATER CHARGES AND RATES FOR THE CITY OF HANFORD

WATER SYSTEM
At a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Hanford duly called and held on the
15th
day of December, 2015, at 7: 00 P. M., and on a motion made by Council Member y
v f
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l
and seconded by Council Member A-/ -S and duly
carried that the following Resolution be adopted:

WHEREAS, in connection with the providing of water service to the citizens of Hanford and in order to provide sufficient funding for the adequate operation, maintenance and improvement of such water service system, the City of Hanford has established water charges and rates for water services in the City of Hanford Water System ( collectively" Charges and Rates"); and
WHEREAS, it has been determined by the City of Hanford that the current Charges and Rates do not provide sufficient funds in order to adequately operate, maintain, and improve the water service system and provide adequate funds to pay debt service for bonds, maintain system facilities, and provide water quality in compliance with the State Water Resources Control Board requirements; and
WHEREAS, the following schedule of new Charges and Rates has been determined to be necessary to provide sufficient funding for the adequate operation, maintenance and improvement of the City of Hanford water service system, such funding to be used to pay the costs of operation, maintenance and improvement of the water system, including but not limited to, operations, personnel and funds to be placed on reserve for future repair, improvements, and replacement of the water service system of the City of Hanford.

WHEREAS, due to the drought conditions affecting the state and the conservation order issued by the state to the City of Hanford, the Council is requiring that all water services served by the City ofHanford be metered and a charge on all flat rate account equivalent to $ 13. 33 per month for 60 months be added to pay for the installation of a meter and appurtenances to convert all flat rate services to metered services; and
WHEREAS, all notices of the public hearing were published and served by mail as required by law, and the City Council held a public hearing and received written and oral evidence regarding the increase of the Charges and Rates as identified in this Resolution. At the conclusion of the public hearing, all written protests to the increase in the Charges and Rates were counted, and it was determined that the protests submitted were insufficient to prohibit the increase of the Charges and Rates as identified in this resolution.

WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that pursuant to Section 15273( a) of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines, modifying water rates for the purposes identified in Section 15273( a) is statutorily exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Hanford hereby establishes the following Charges and Rates for the Hanford water service system and shall become effective as identified below. The Charges and Rates that become effective January 1, 2016 shall remain in effect until changed by resolution of the City Council.

Current and Proposed Water Rates
for Metered Water Service Connections Inside the City Limits Sep. 1, 2007
Jan. 1, 2016 July 1, 2016 July 1, 2017 July 1, 2018
current)

CONNECTION CHARGES
per month)
All Service Connections 6. 14 2. 25 2. 32 2. 39 2. 46

METER SIZE CHARGES
per month)
5/ 8", 3/ 4", & 1" meter 10. 00 10. 90 $ 11. 88 12. 95
1- 1/ 2" & 2" meter 15. 00 16. 35 $ 17. 82 19. 42
3" & 4" meter 25.00 27.25 $ 29.70 32. 37
6" meter 40. 00 43.60 $ 47. 52 51. 80
8" meter 60.00 65.40 $ 71. 29 77. 71

WATER CONSUMPTION CHARGES
per 100 cubic foot" unit of water")
Rate per 100 cf 0. 69 1. 04 1. 13 1. 23 1. 34
Current and Proposed Water Rates
for Flat Rate Water Service Connections Inside the City Limits Sep. 1, 2007
Jan. 1, 2016 July 1, 2016 July 1, 2017 July 1, 2018
current)

CONNECTION CHARGES
per month)
All Service Connections 2. 25 2. 32 2. 39 2. 46

FLAT RATE CHARGES
per gross square foot of lot area)
Rate per gross square foot 0. 0035 0. 0058 0. 0063 $ 0. 0069 0. 0075 Flat Rate to Meter Conversion Charge

13. 33
800 over 60 months)

Current and Proposed Water Rates
for Metered Service Connections Outside the City Limits Sep. 1, 2007
Jan. 1, 2016 July 1, 2016 July 1, 2017 July 1, 2018
current)

CONNECTION CHARGES
per month; 1. 1x Inside the City Limits)
All Service Connections 9. 21 2. 48 2. 55 2. 63 2. 71

METER SIZE CHARGES
per month; 1. 1x Inside the City Limits)
5/ 8", 3/ 4", & 1" meter 11. 00 11. 99 13. 07 14. 25
1- 1/ 2" & 2" meter 16. 50 17. 99 19. 60 21. 36
3" & 4" meter 27. 50 29. 98 32. 67 35. 61
6" meter 44. 00 47. 96 52. 27 56. 98
8" meter 66. 00 71. 94 78. 42 85. 48

WATER CONSUMPTION CHARGES
per 100 cubic foot" unit of water"; 1. 1x Inside the City Limits) Rate per 100 cf 1. 04 1. 14 1. 24 1. 35 1. 47

PRIVATE FIRE PROTECTION SERVICE
per month)
1- 1/ 2" connection 9. 10 13. 50 14. 72 16. 04 17.48
2" connection 11. 95 18. 00 19.62 21. 39 23. 32
3" connection 16. 55 27. 00 29.43 32. 08 34. 97
4" connection 21. 00 36. 00 37. 24 42. 77 46. 62
6" connection 33. 15 54. 00 58. 86 64. 16 69. 93
8" connection 42. 10 72. 00 78.48 85. 54 93. 24
10" connection 54. 10 90. 00 98. 10 106. 93 116. 55
12" connection 69. 90 108. 00 117. 72 $ 128. 31 139. 86 Current and Proposed Water Rates
for Flat Rate Water Service Connections Outside the City Limits Sep. 1, 2007
Jan. 1, 2016 July 1, 2016 July 1, 2017 July 1, 2018
current)

CONNECTION CHARGES
per month; 1. 1x Inside the City Limits)
All Service Connections 2. 48 2. 55 2. 63 2. 71

FLAT RATE CHARGES
per gross square foot of lot area)
Rate per gross square foot 0. 0053 0. 0064 0. 0069 $ 0. 0076 0. 0083 Flat Rate to Meter Conversion Charge

13. 33
800 over 60 months)

BE ITFURTHER RESOLVED that all other system charges and rates identified in resolution 07- 03- R are not modified by this resolution and remain in effect.

PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this %.S day of Dec.,en..- r , 2015 by the following vote:

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AYOR ofthe City of Hanford
Attest:

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I, Jennifer Gomez, City Clerk ofthe City of Hanford, do hereby certify the foregoing Resolution was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting ofthe City Council ofthe City of Hanford held on the l day of _ 12e c.e,--- b-z/- 2015.

Date: X,2,/ 7r/ Sity
i

October 2021 City of Hanford
2020 Urban Water Management Plan
City of Hanford

APPENDIX F
Urban Water Management Plan
Adoption Resolution and Notifications

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ORDER CONFIRMATION
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CITY OF HANFORD − LEGALS Start: 09/17/2021 Stop: 09/28/2021 ACCOUNTS PAYABLE Times Ord: 2 Times Run: ***
315 N DOUTY ST 3STD 2.00 X 4.73 Words: 367
HANFORD CA 93230 Total 3STD 9.46
Class: H0986 LEGALS
Rate: LD Cost: 296.71
# Affidavits: 1
Contact: Ad Descrpt: AD# 46328 PUBLIC NOTICE N
Phone: (559)585−2500 Given by: *
Fax#: P.O. #:

Email: [email protected] Created: jmora 09/15/21 08:07 Agency: Last Changed: jmora 09/16/21 09:15 −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−

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AUTHORIZATION
Under this agreement rates are subject to change with 30 days notice. In the event of a cancellation before schedule completion, I understand that the rate charged will be based upon the rate for the number of insertions used. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Name (print or type) Name (signature)
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ORDER CONFIRMATION (CONTINUED)
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AD# 46328
Public Notice
Notice of Public Hearing
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Hanford, California, will hold an informational session on October 5, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. followed by a Public Hearing on October 5, at 7:00 p.m. or as soon as possible thereafter, in the City of Council Chambers located at 400 Douty Street, Hanford, California to consider the following matter:

PUBLIC HEARING ON URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN & WATER
SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR 2020
The Hanford City Council will hold a Public Hearing to receive comments from the public on the final draft of the City of Hanford 2020 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) and 2020 Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP). The City is preparing its 2020 UWMP to continue to provide adequate water supplies to meet existing and future water demands within Citys Urban Growth Boundary. The 2020 UWMP updates the information in the existing 2015 UWMP and provides an overview of the Citys efficient water uses, water supplies, and demand management measures.

Additionally, the 2020 WSCP builds upon previous planning efforts and outlines the Citys plan to address potential future water shortages. At the conclusion of receipt of comments by the public, the Public Hearing will be closed.

Written communications may be filed prior to the Public Hearing. Questions or comments regarding the plans should be emailed to
[email protected]. The final draft plans are available for review at the City Clerks office at 319 N. Douty Street, Hanford CA, Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Further detail may be obtained from the City of Hanford Public Works department at (559) 585- 2550. The final draft plan can be viewed and downloaded at:
https://www.cityofhanfordca.com
ADOPTION OF THE 2020 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN and
2020 WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN
At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Hanford City Council on October 19, 2021, the City Council will also consider adoption of a resolution approving the City of Hanford 2020 UWMP and 2020 WSCP and directing staff to submit the plan to the State Department of Water Resources.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF HANFORD.

Publish September 17, 25, 2021

APPENDIX C
MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT WSA – CONSISTENCY WITH DWR GUIDELINES

Mixed-Use Development at Grangeville Blvd. and Centennial Dr.

Consistency with DWR Guidelines
Guidelines Section Number and
Title (DWR, 2003)
Guidelines Direction Relevant WSA Section and
Response
Section 1 (page 2). Does SB 610
or SB221 apply to the proposed
project?
Is the project subject to SB 610?
Is the project subject to CEQA
(Water Code §10910(a)? If yes,
continue.

WSA Section 1.1. Yes, the
project is subject to CEQA.

Is it a “Project” as defined by
Water Code §10912(a) or (b)?
If yes, to comply with SB 610 go
to Section 2.0, page 4.

WSA Section 1.1. No, the
Project is not considered to
meet the definition of “project”
per Water Code §10912(a) or
(b).

Is the project subject to SB 221?
Does the tentative map include
a “subdivision” as defined by
Government Code
§66473.7(a)(1)? If no, stop.

No, the Project does not include
a “subdivision”, SB 221 does not
apply to the Project, and no
further action relevant to SB
221 is required.

Section 2.0 (page 4). Who will
prepare the SB 610 analysis?
Is there a public water system
(“water supplier”) for the
project (Water Code
§10910(b)? If no, go to Section

3.0, page 6.

WSA Section 2.1. Yes, the
project site will connect to a
public water system.

Section 3.0 (page 6). Has an
assessment already been
prepared that includes this
project?
Has this project already been
the subject of an assessment
(Water Code §10910(h)? If no,
go to Section 4.0, page 8.

No, the Project has not been the
subject of an assessment.

Section 4.0 (page 8). Is there a
current Urban Water
Management Plan?
Is there an adopted urban water
management Plan (Water Code
§10910(c)? If yes, continue. If
yes, the information from the
UWMP related to the proposed
water demand for the project
may also be used for carrying
out Section 5.0, Steps 1 and 2,
Section 7; proceed to Section 5,
page 10 of the Guidelines.

Yes, there is an Urban Water
Management Plan (UWMP) for
the proposed project location
described in WSA Section 3.2.

Is the project water demand for
the project accounted for in the
most recent UWMP (Water
Code §10910(c)(2)? If no, go to
Section 5.0, page 10.

Yes
Section 5.0 (page 10). What
information should be included
in an assessment?
Step One (page 13).

Documenting wholesale water
supplies.

The Project is not a retail water
supplier and would not include
the use of wholesale water
supplies.

Step Two (page 17).

Documenting Supply if
Groundwater is a Source.

The proposed water supply
wells are located within The

Guidelines Section Number and
Title (DWR, 2003)
Guidelines Direction Relevant WSA Section and
Response
City of Hanford. WSA Sections

1.3, 2.3 and 3.2.

Specify if a groundwater
management plan or any other
specific authorization for
groundwater management for
the basin has been adopted and
how it affects the water
supplier’s use of the basin.

WSA Section 3.2
The water supply wells are
located within the Tulare Lake
Basin Groundwater
Sustainability Agency which
includes the City of Hanford.

Description and analysis of the
amount and location of
groundwater pumped by the
water supplier for the past five
years. Include information on
proposed pumping locations
and quantities. The description
and analysis is to be based on
information that is reasonably
available, including, but not
limited to, historic use records
from DWR.

City of Hanford historic records
included in WSA Section 3.0.

WSA Section 1.3 provides a
description of the Project’s
water requirements.

Analysis of the location,
amount, and sufficiency of
groundwater that is projected
to be pumped by the water
supplier.

WSA Section 3.2. The quantity
of water available in the City of
Hanford is sufficient for the
Project.

Step 3 (page 21). Documenting
project demand (Project
Demand Analysis).

WSA Section 1.3. Construction
of the Project will require 35.2-
acre feet per year.

Step 4 (page 26). Documenting
dry year(s) supply.

WSA Section 3.2. Addresses
water supply availability
including during dry years.

Step 5 (page 31). Documenting
dry year(s) demand.

WSA Section 3.2 addresses
annual demands, including dry
year scenarios.

Section 6.0 (page 33). Is the
projected water supply
sufficient or insufficient for the
proposed project
WSA Section 4.0 summarizes
how the identified water
supply/supplies are considered
sufficient for the Project.

Section 7.0 (page 35). If the
projected supply is determined
to be insufficient.

Does the assessment conclude
that supply is “sufficient”? If no,
continue.

WSA Section 4.0 concludes that
sufficient water supplies are
available for the Project.

Section 8.0 (page 38). Final SB
610 assessment actions by lead
agencies.

The lead agency shall review
the WSA and must decide
whether additional water
supply information is needed
for its consideration of the
proposed project. The lead
The WSA for the Project must
be approved prior to or in
concurrence with the EIR.

Guidelines Section Number and
Title (DWR, 2003)
Guidelines Direction Relevant WSA Section and
Response
agency “shall determine, based
on the entire record, whether
projected water supplies will be
sufficient to satisfy the demands
of the project, in addition to
existing and planned future
uses.”
The description of the
groundwater basin may be
excerpted from the
groundwater management plan,
from DWR Bulleting 118,
California’s Ground Water, or
from some other document that
has been published and that
discusses the basin boundaries,
type of rock that constitutes the
aquifer, variability of the
aquifer material, and total
groundwater in storage
(average specific yield times the
volume of the aquifer).

WSA Section 2.2 provides a
description of the groundwater
basin characteristics using all
available resources, including
DWR Bulletin 118.

In an adjudicated basin the
amount of water the urban
supplier has the legal right to
pump should be enumerated in
the court decision.

Basin is not adjudicated.

The Department of Water
Resources has projected
estimates of overdraft, or
“water shortage”, based on
projected amounts of water
supply and demand (basin
management) are projected by
Santa Cruz Mid-County
Groundwater Sustainability
Agency in WSA Section 2.2.

Basin groundwater resources
are discussed in WSA Section

2.2. Bulletin 160, California Water
Plan Update. Estimates at the
basin or subbasin level will be
projected for some basins in
Bulletin 118. If the basin has
not been evaluated by DWR,
data that indicate groundwater
level trends over a period of
time should be collected and
evaluated.

Guidelines Section Number and
Title (DWR, 2003)
Guidelines Direction Relevant WSA Section and
Response
If the evaluation indicates an
overdraft due to existing
groundwater extraction, or
projected increases in
groundwater extraction,
describe actions and/or
program designed to eliminate
the long-term overdraft
condition.

WSA Section 3.2. The
referenced and Appendicized
City of Hanford 2020 Urban
Water Master Plan describes in
detail the subject actions and
programs.

APPENDIX G

TRAFFIC STUDY

Project No: 257-88

TRAFFIC STUDY

HANFORD MULTI-USE DEVELOPMENT

GRANGEVILLE BOULEVARD & CENTENNIAL DRIVE

CITY OF HANFORD
Prepared for:

QK, INC.

December 2023
Prepared by:
1800 30th Street, Suite 260
Bakersfield, California 93301
__________________________________________
Ian J. Parks, RCE 58155

Traffic Study 257-88
Hanford Multi-Use Development
Grangeville Blvd & Centennial Dr i

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 FIGURE 1: VICINITY MAP..................................................................................................................................... 2 FIGURE 2: LOCATION MAP.................................................................................................................................. 3 FIGURE 3: SITE PLAN ............................................................................................................................................ 4 PROJECT TRIP GENERATION AND DESIGN HOUR VOLUMES..................................................................... 6 TABLE 1: PROJECT TRIP GENERATION ............................................................................................................ 6 PROJECT TRIP DISTRIBUTION AND ASSIGNMENT........................................................................................ 6 TABLE 2: PROJECT TRIP DISTRIBUTION .......................................................................................................... 6 EXISTING AND FUTURE TRAFFIC...................................................................................................................... 7 FIGURE 4: PROJECT PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC...................................................................................................... 8 FIGURE 5: 2023 PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC............................................................................................................... 9 FIGURE 6: 2023+PROJECT PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC.......................................................................................... 10 FIGURE 7: 2043 PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC............................................................................................................. 11 FIGURE 8: 2043+PROJECT PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC.......................................................................................... 12 INTERSECTION ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................................ 13 TABLE 3a: INTERSECTION LOS, WEEKDAY PM PEAK HOUR.................................................................... 14 TABLE 3b: INTERSECTION LOS, WEEKDAY AM PEAK HOUR ................................................................... 14 TRAFFIC SIGNAL WARRANT ANALYSIS........................................................................................................ 15 TABLE 4a: TRAFFIC SIGNAL WARRANTS, WEEKDAY PM PEAK HOUR.................................................. 15 TABLE 4b: TRAFFIC SIGNAL WARRANTS, WEEKDAY AM PEAK HOUR................................................. 15 ROADWAY ANALYSIS........................................................................................................................................ 16 TABLE 5a: PM ROADWAY CAPACITY ............................................................................................................. 17 TABLE 5b: AM ROADWAY CAPACITY ............................................................................................................ 17 VMT ANALYSIS.................................................................................................................................................... 18 SUMMARY............................................................................................................................................................. 19 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................................................ 20 APPENDIX.............................................................................................................................................................. 21

Traffic Study 257-88
Hanford Multi-Use Development
Grangeville Blvd & Centennial Dr 1

INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential traffic impacts of multi-use development, which includes multi-family housing, a fast-food restaurant with drive-through, and a convenience store with 12 vehicle fueling pumps. The project is located on the northwest corner of Grangeville Boulevard & Centennial Drive in the City of Hanford. A vicinity map is presented in Figure 1 and a location map is presented in Figure 2.

The study is consistent with City guidelines and includes analyses of intersection level of service, roadway capacity, traffic signal warrants and vehicle miles traveled. The scope of the study was developed in coordination with City staff and includes nine intersections (eight signalized and one unsignalized) and the adjoining roadways.

Project Description
The project site would be situated on five acres of land which is currently vacant and unused. The property is zoned Neighborhood Commercial and has a General Plan Land Use designation of Neighborhood Commercial.

Access to the project site would be provided from Grangeville Boulevard and Centennial Drive. The site plan is provided in Figure 3.

Existing Land Uses in Project Vicinity
Residential land uses exist to the north, east, west, and south of the project. Frontier Elementary school exists to the west of the project as well. Agricultural land uses exist to the southeast and southwest of the project. Sierra Pacific high school exists generally south of the project.

Traffic Study 257-88
Hanford Multi-Use Development
Grangeville Blvd & Centennial Dr 2
FIGURE 1: VICINITY MAP

Traffic Study 257-88
Hanford Multi-Use Development
Grangeville Blvd & Centennial Dr 3
FIGURE 2: LOCATION MAP

Traffic Study 257-88
Hanford Multi-Use Development
Grangeville Blvd & Centennial Dr 4
FIGURE 3: SITE PLAN

Traffic Study 257-88
Hanford Multi-Use Development
Grangeville Blvd & Centennial Dr 5
Roadway Descriptions
11th Avenue is a north-south arterial that extends throughout the City of Hanford. In the vicinity of the project it exists as a four-lane roadway and provides access to residential and commercial land uses. 12th Avenue is a north-south arterial that extends throughout the City of Hanford. In the vicinity of the project it exists as a four-lane roadway and provides access to residential and commercial land uses. 13th Avenue is a north-south arterial that extends throughout the western part of the City of Hanford. In the vicinity of the project it exists as a two-lane roadway and provides access to residential land uses.

Centennial Drive is a north-south collector that extends from Fargo Avenue to 12th Avenue. In the vicinity of the project it exists as a two-lane roadway and provides access to residential land uses.

Fargo Ave is an east-west arterial that extends throughout the City of Hanford. In the vicinity of the project, it exists as a two-lane roadway and provides access to residential and agricultural land uses.

Grangeville Boulevard is an east-west arterial that extends throughout the City of Hanford. In the vicinity of the project, it exists as a four-lane roadway and provides access to residential, commercial and agricultural land uses.

Lacey Boulevard is an east-west arterial that extends from State Route 41 to 7th Avenue in Hanford. In the vicinity of the project, it exists as a four-lane roadway.

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PROJECT TRIP GENERATION AND DESIGN HOUR VOLUMES
The project trip generation volumes shown in Table 1 were estimated using the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Trip Generation Manual, 11th Edition (September 2021). Trip rates and peak hour directional splits for ITE Land Use Codes 220 (Multi-Family Housing), 934 (Fast-Food Restaurant with Drive-Through), and 945 (Gasoline/Service Station with Convenience Market) were used to estimate project trips for weekday peak hour of adjacent street traffic based on information provided by the project applicant.

Table 1
Project Trip Generation
ITE Development Variable ADT ADT Rate In Out Rate In Out Code Type RATE % Split/ % Split/ % Split/ % Split/
Trips Trips Trips Trips
220 64 eq 486 eq 24% 76% eq 63% 37%
Dwelling Units =6.41*64+75.31 43 10 33 62 30 18
934 3.5 467.48 1,636 44.61 51% 49% 33.03 52% 48%
1000 sq ft GFA 467.48*X 141 80 76 114 60 56
945 12 eq 2,750 16.06 50% 50% 18.42 50% 50%
Vehicle Fueling Positions =268.46*12+-1161 131 96 97 168 111 110 sub-total 4,872 186 206 201 184
Adjustments
Capture 5% 244 9 10 10 9
Pass-by¹ 15% 731 28 31 30 28
Total 3,897 149 165 161 147
¹Pass-by adjustment was applied to the retail portion of the project.

Fast-Food Restaurant with
Drive-Through
General Information Daily Trips AM Peak Hour Trips PM Peak Hour Trips Gasoline/Service Station
with Convenience Market
Multifamily Housing (Low
Rise)

PROJECT TRIP DISTRIBUTION AND ASSIGNMENT
The distribution of project peak hour trips is shown in Table 2 and represents the movement of traffic accessing the project site by direction. The project trip distribution was developed based on site location and travel patterns anticipated for the proposed land use.

Table 2
Project Trip Distribution
Direction Percent
North 25
East 40
South 30
West 5

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Project peak hour trips were assigned to the study intersections as shown in Figure 4. Project trip assignment was developed based on trip generation, trip distribution and likely travel routes for traffic accessing the project site.

EXISTING AND FUTURE TRAFFIC
Existing
Weekday peak hour turning movement counts were obtained at each of the study intersections in December 2023 (see Appendix for count data). Existing peak hour volumes are shown in Figure 5.

Existing plus project peak hour volumes are shown in Figure 6.

Future
Annual growth rates ranging between 0.5 and 3.46 percent were applied to the existing peak hour volumes to estimate future volumes 2043. These growth rates were estimated based on a review of data from the Kings County Association of Governments (KCAG) travel demand model.

Future peak hour volumes for the year 2043, both without and with project traffic, are shown in Figures 7 and 8, respectively.

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INTERSECTION ANALYSIS
A capacity analysis of the study intersections was conducted using Synchro software from Trafficware (see Appendix for Synchro analysis results). This software utilizes the capacity analysis methodology in the Transportation Research Board’s Highway Capacity Manual 2010 (HCM 2010). The analysis was performed for each of the following traffic scenarios.
• Existing Year (2023)
• Existing Year (2023) + Project
• Future Year (2043)
• Future Year (2043) + Project
Level of service (LOS) criteria for unsignalized and signalized intersections, as defined in HCM 2010, are presented in the tables below.

Level of Service Criteria
Unsignalized Intersections
Level of Service Average Control Delay
(sec/veh)
Expected Delay to Minor
Street Traffic
A ≤ 10 Little or no delay
B > 10 and ≤ 15 Short delays
C > 15 and ≤ 25 Average delays
D > 25 and ≤ 35 Long delays
E > 35 and ≤ 50 Very long delays
F > 50 Extreme delays
Level of Service Criteria
Signalized Intersections
Level of Service Average Control Delay
(sec/veh)
Volume-to-Capacity
Ratio
A ≤ 10 < 0.60
B > 10 and ≤ 20 0.61 - 0.70
C > 20 and ≤ 35 0.71 - 0.80
D > 35 and ≤ 55 0.81 - 0.90
E > 55 and ≤ 80 0.91 - 1.00
F > 80 > 1.00
Peak hour level of service for the study intersections is presented in Tables 3a and 3b. The City of Hanford has set an intersection level of service standard of LOS C or better. Intersection delay (seconds per vehicle) is shown within parentheses for intersections operating below LOS C.

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Table 3a
Intersection Level of Service
Weekday PM Peak Hour
# Intersection Control Type 2023 2023+
Project 2043 2043+Project
1 Centennial Dr & Fargo Ave NB B B C C
2 12th Ave & Fargo Ave Signal C C C C
3 13th Ave & Grangeville Blvd Signal C C C C
4 Centennial Dr & Grangeville Blvd Signal C C C C
5 12th Ave & Grangeville Blvd Signal C C C C
6 10th Ave & Grangeville Blvd Signal C C C C
7 Centennial Dr & Lacey Blvd Signal B B C C
8 12th Ave & Lacey Blvd Signal C C C C
9 10th Ave & Lacey Blvd Signal C C C C
Table 3b
Intersection Level of Service
Weekday AM Peak Hour
# Intersection Control Type 2023 2023+
Project 2043 2043+Project
1 Centennial Dr & Fargo Ave NB B B C C
2 12th Ave & Fargo Ave Signal B B C C
3 13th Ave & Grangeville Blvd Signal B B C C
4 Centennial Dr & Grangeville Blvd Signal C C C C
5 12th Ave & Grangeville Blvd Signal B B B B
6 10th Ave & Grangeville Blvd Signal C C C C
7 Centennial Dr & Lacey Blvd Signal B C B C
8 12th Ave & Lacey Blvd Signal B B B B
9 10th Ave & Lacey Blvd Signal C C C C

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TRAFFIC SIGNAL WARRANT ANALYSIS
Peak hour signal warrants were evaluated for the unsignalized intersection within the study based on the 2014 California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (2014 CA MUTCD). Peak hour signal warrants assess delay to traffic on minor street approaches when entering or crossing a major street.

Signal warrant analysis results are shown in Tables 4a and 4b.

Table 4a
Traffic Signal Warrants
Weekday PM Peak Hour
Major Minor Major Minor Major Minor Major Minor
Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Total High Total High Total High Total High
Approach Approach Warrant Approach Approach Warrant Approach Approach Warrant Approach Approach Warrant # Intersection Vol Vol Met Vol Vol Met Vol Vol Met Vol Vol Met 1 Centennial Dr at Fargo Ave 316 197 NO 316 210 NO 577 292 YES 577 305 YES 2023 2023+Project 2043 2043+Project
Table 4b
Traffic Signal Warrants
Weekday AM Peak Hour
Major Minor Major Minor Major Minor Major Minor
Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Total High Total High Total High Total High
Approach Approach Warrant Approach Approach Warrant Approach Approach Warrant Approach Approach Warrant # Intersection Vol Vol Met Vol Vol Met Vol Vol Met Vol Vol Met 1 Centennial Dr at Fargo Ave 459 227 NO 459 242 NO 756 431 YES 756 446 YES 2023 2023+Project 2043 2043+Project
It is important to note that a signal warrant defines the minimum condition under which signalization of an intersection might be warranted. Meeting this threshold does not suggest traffic signals are required, but rather, that other traffic factors and conditions be considered to determine whether signals are truly justified.

It is also noted that signal warrants do not necessarily correlate with level of service. An intersection may satisfy a signal warrant condition and operate at or above an acceptable level of service or operate below an acceptable level of service and not meet signal warrant criteria.

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ROADWAY ANALYSIS
A capacity analysis of the study roadways was conducted using Table 4 in the State of Florida Department of Transportation Quality/Level of Service Handbook dated June 2020 (see Appendix).

Capacities for roadway segments within the scope of the study are presented in Tables 5a and 5b. The City of Hanford has a minimum level of service standard of LOS C for roadways. The analysis was performed for the following AM and PM traffic scenarios:
• Existing (2023)
• Existing (2023) + Project
• Future (2043)
• Future (2043) + Project
Table 5a
PM Roadway Capacity

VOL LOS VOL LOS VOL LOS VOL LOS
Fargo Ave: Centennial Dr - 12th Ave 490 C 490 C 717 C 717 C Grangeville Blvd: 13th St - Centennial Dr 812 C 946 C 1070 C 1204 C Grangeville Blvd: Centennial Dr - 12th
Ave 966 C 1160 C 1139 C 1333 C
Grangeville Blvd: 12th Ave - 11th Ave 1247 C 1327 C 1519 C 1599 C Lacey Blvd: Centennial Dr - 12th Ave 1409 C 1444 C 1828 C 1863 C Lacey Blvd: 12th Ave - 11th Ave 1428 C 1466 C 1666 C 1704 C 12th Ave: Fargo Ave - Grangeville Blvd 1188 C 1238 C 1497 C 1547 C 12th Ave: Grangeville Blvd - Lacey Blvd 1573 C 1628 C 1995 C 2050 C 11th Ave: Grangeville Blvd - Lacey Blvd 1733 C 1762 C 2180 C 2209 C 2043
Two-Way LOS
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Two-Way LOS
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Table 5b
AM Roadway Capacity

VOL LOS VOL LOS VOL LOS VOL LOS
Fargo Ave: Centennial Dr - 12th Ave 638 C 638 C 1122 C 1122 C Grangeville Blvd: 13th St - Centennial
Dr 735 C 871 C 972 C 1108 C
Grangeville Blvd: Centennial Dr - 12th
Ave 792 C 991 C 939 C 1138 C
Grangeville Blvd: 12th Ave - 11th Ave 991 C 1073 C 1205 C 1287 C Lacey Blvd: Centennial Dr - 12th Ave 587 C 623 C 814 C 850 C Lacey Blvd: 12th Ave - 11th Ave 929 C 968 C 1125 C 1164 C 12th Ave: Fargo Ave - Grangeville Blvd 993 C 1044 C 1016 C 1067 C 12th Ave: Grangeville Blvd - Lacey
Blvd 1188 C 1244 C 1244 C 1300 C
11th Ave: Grangeville Blvd - Lacey
Blvd 1195 C 1224 C 1496 C 1525 C
2043
Two-Way LOS
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VMT ANALYSIS
An evaluation of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for project traffic was conducted in accordance with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requirements. The City of Hanford has adopted the VMT Thresholds and Implementation Guidelines, dated October 2022, which contains recommendations regarding VMT assessment, significance thresholds, and mitigation measures. Due to being a multi-use project, the two uses were analyzed individually as follows:

Multi-Family
The guidelines provide “screening thresholds” for identifying whether a land use project should be expected to result in a less than significant transportation impact under CEQA. Projects meeting one or more of these criteria would not be required to undergo a detailed VMT analysis. One of the screening thresholds included in the guidelines pertains to average daily traffic. Projects consistent with the City’s General Plan can be successfully screened out if they generate fewer than 1,000 average daily trips.

Projects not consistent with the City’s General Plan can be screened out if they generate fewer than 500 average daily trips. The project will require a general plan amendment; therefore, the screening threshold is 500 daily trips. As shown in Table 1, the proposed residential (multi-family) portion of the project is expected to generate 486 average daily trips. With the anticipated daily traffic being less than 500, the multi-family portion of the project will screen out of further VMT analysis and is presumed to have a less-than-significant traffic impact.

Retail
The guidelines contain a screening threshold which pertains to locally-serving retail. Retail is considered “locally-serving” if it totals a combined square footage of less than 55,000 square feet. The total square footage of the project will be less than 55,000 square feet, therefore the retail portion of the project will screen out of further VMT analysis and is presumed to have a less-than-significant traffic impact

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SUMMARY
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential traffic impacts of multi-use development located on the northwest corner of Grangeville Boulevard & Centennial Drive in the City of Hanford The scope of the study includes four intersections and the adjoining roadway segments. Traffic impact analyses include intersection level of service (LOS), roadway capacity and vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Traffic signal warrants were also analyzed. Analysis results are summarized below.

Intersection Level of Service
All intersections operate at an acceptable level of service and are anticipated to do so with the addition of project traffic through the year 2043.

Roadway Capacity
The roadway segments currently operate at an acceptable level of service in 2023 and are anticipated to continue to do so through 2043 prior to and with the addition of project traffic.

VMT
The project screens out of VMT analysis and therefore is presumed to have a less-than-significant VMT impact.