REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Approval of a Cost Sharing Agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Water District for Construction of the Wolfe Road Recycled Water Facilities, and Consideration of an Addendum to the Previously-Adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Wolfe Road Recycled Water Project; Approval of an Agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Water District for Recycled Water Supply for Non-Potable Use; and Approval of the Framework for a Long-Term Integration Agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Water District to Supply Recycled Water from Sunnyvale's Wastewater Plant for Potable Water Reuse
Report
BACKGROUND
On August 13, 2013, the City Council approved the Recycled Water Feasibility Study (RTC 13-181) outlining a strategy to expand recycled water for non-potable use. On September 24, 2013, the City Council approved a cost sharing agreement with Santa Clara Valley Water District (District) for design and engineering of the Wolfe Road Recycled Water project (RTC 13-226).
This Wolfe Road Project is one of two sub-projects that were the topic of the Council action on July 15, 2014 to apply for a $4.0 million State grant. The second sub-project is the Continuous Recycled Water Production Project, which is being presented to Council in separate actions.
Over the last two years City staff has been negotiating with District staff on various agreements and projects to support the expansion of recycled water use for potable and non-potable applications. As a result, several action items shown in (Attachment 1) will be presented over the next year for Council consideration. Today this RTC requests Council action on the following three items:
* Draft Cost Sharing Agreement for the Construction of Wolfe Road Recycled Water Project (Attachment 2) as well as the associated addendum to the mitigated negative declaration (Attachment 6)
* Draft Recycled Water Supply Agreement (Attachment 3)
* Draft Framework of a Long-Term Integration Agre...
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