Resolution 13111CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 13111
SUPPORTING COMPLETION OF THE EBMUD AMENDATORY CONTRACT
WITH THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
WHEREAS, water available from the East Bay Municipal Utility District's ( EBMUD) high -
quality Sierra source, the Mokelumne River, is limited and EBMUD forecasts that in three out of
ten years, customers will face water rationing; and
WHEREAS, EBMUD completed in 1993 a comprehensive Integrated Resource Management
Plan that exhaustively evaluated all feasible methods for reducing the need for additional water
supplies and alternatives for providing such additional supply; and
WHEREAS, EBMUD has taken the important necessary steps to reduce its water demand
through aggressive water conservation with methods such as metering, tiered rates, low flush toilet
replacement programs and water reclamation programs; and
WHEREAS, consistent with this planning, the City of Alameda recognizes the critical need
of communities within the EBMUD service area for a supplemental water supply; and
WHEREAS, EBMUD has held and paid for its American River contract rights for more than
25 years with those rights affirmed through the courts, and those rights specifically provide for the
protection of recreation and wildlife habitat; and
WHEREAS, EBMUD has sought a joint project with parties in the Sacramento region to
cooperatively use and protect American River resources even though the majority of Sacramento
water users have not metered their water use and
WHEREAS. EBMUD customer have a long record of commitment to sensible water use
and EBMUD continues to invest in reclamation and conversation.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Alameda supports completion of
the EBMUD Amendatory Contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation. This Amendatory
Contract provides for near -term access to EBMUD's long -held rights to American River water either
as a District -only project or as part of a joint project that provides benefits to the largest community
of interest possible.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk is hereby directed to forward a Certified
Copy of this resolution to EBMUD and to the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Interior.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on
the 15th day of June , 1999, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers DeWitt, Johnson, Kerr and Acting Mayor
Daysog - 4.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Mayor Appezzato -
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this
16th day of June , 1999.
Diane Felsch, City
City of Alameda