RESOLUTION HWD NO. 2026-07
RESOLUTION OF THE HESPERIA WATER DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF HESPERIA, CALIFORNIA, ACCEPTING THE DISTRICT’S 2025 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN (UWMP) FOR THE PLANNING PERIOD 2025-2045 WHEREAS, in 1983 the California Legislature enacted Assembly Bill 797 (adding §§ 10610 - 10657 to the Water Code) known as the Urban Water Management Planning Act (Act),subsequently amended, which mandates that every urban water supplier providing water for municipal purposes either directly or indirectly to more than 3, 000 customers or supplying more than 3, 000 acre- feet of water annually shall prepare an Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP); and WHEREAS, the Act requires the UWMP to address water planning over a 20-year period in five-year increments, to describe in the plan water management tools and options used by the District to maximize resources and minimize the need to import water, to identify and quantify current and potential future water supplies including recycled water and desalination, for existing and future demand in normal, single- dry and multiple- dry years, to develop a water shortage contingency plan, to describe conservation program implementation and efficient use of urban water supplies, and to demonstrate the City' s progress towards compliance with reduction in overall water consumption as mandated by Senate Bill X7- 7; and WHEREAS, each UWMP shall include simple lay description of how much water the supplier has on a reliable basis, how much it needs for the foreseeable future, what the supplier's strategy is for meeting its water needs, the challenges facing the supplier, and any other information necessary to provide a general understanding of the supplier' s plan; and WHEREAS, the Hesperia Water District is an urban water supplier providing water to a population in excess of 3,000 customers; and WHEREAS, the UWMP is to be adopted after public review and hearing and filed with the California Department of Water Resources; and
WHEREAS, the District has prepared and circulated for public review, a draft copy of the 2025 UWMP, and a properly noticed public hearing regarding the 2025 UWMP was held by the District on June 2, 2026;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF HESPERIA WATER DISTRICT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Board of Directors hereby specifically finds that all of the facts as set forth in this resolution are true and correct.
Section 2. The 2025 Urban Water Management Plan is hereby accepted and ordered filed with the City Clerk.
Section 3. City staff is hereby authorized and directed to file the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan with the California Department of Water Resources by July 1, 2026.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 2nd day of June 2026.
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Briget Bennington, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Jessica Giber, Assistant City Clerk