RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA ADOPTING THE DRINKING WATER QUALITY POLICY PRINCIPLES WHEREAS, the City of Riverside, through its Department of Public Utilities (“RPU”) has invested significantly in water supply, treatment, distribution, and storage facilities to ensure the quality of water it serves meets or exceeds all federal and state drinking water standards. The diversity of local water supply facilities, including over 50 active groundwater wells, nine treatment plants, three transmission mains, and a 32 million gallon blending reservoir, coupled with three imported water connections creates a diverse system and requires a multi-barrier approach to protect public health; and WHEREAS, to ensure a safe and high-quality water supply for RPU customers from its sources, RPU has been actively engaged in protecting the groundwater basins from which its water supply is produced. This engagement includes participation in regional groundwater basin management efforts with other governmental water and regulatory agencies as well as with industrial entities which are under court-ordered mandates and/or settlement agreements to remediate groundwater contamination caused by their business operations; and WHEREAS, the Drinking Water Quality Policy Principles (“DWQPP”) sets forth policy principles for a drinking water quality policy. The DWQPP memorialize RPU’s approach when discussing and negotiating contamination clean-up efforts at RPU sources of supply. The DWQPP will also help RPU to be consistent when coordinating with third parties such important issues such as the level of treatment that will be required at RPU wells, when treatment is needed, when treatment can be removed, and if or how RPU’s blending capacity can be used, among others.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, as follows:
Section 1: Policy: The Drinking Water Quality Policy Principles attached hereto as Exhibit “A”, and incorporated herein by reference, is hereby adopted as an official policy of the City of Riverside.
Section 2. Effective Date. This Resolution is effective upon date of adoption.
ADOPTED by the City Council this _________ day of _____________, 2022. ___________________________
PATRICIA LOCK DAWSON
Mayor of the City of Riverside
Attest:
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DONESIA GAUSE
City Clerk of the City of Riverside
I, Donesia Gause, City Clerk of the City of Riverside, California, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a meeting of the City Council of said City at its meeting held on the _________day of _____________, 2022, by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes:
Noes:
Absent:
Abstain:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Riverside, California, this ________ day of ______________, 2022. _________________________________
DONESIA GAUSE
City Clerk of the City of Riverside
21-1471 SDW 12/20/21
EXHIBIT “A”
DRINKING WATER QUALITY POLICY PRINCIPLES
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MACROBUTTON None FirmName1_1 , MACROBUTTON None FirmLegalStatus1_1 CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
3750 UNIVERSITY AVE.
RIVERSIDE, CA 92501
(951) 826-5567