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Presentation prepared by: Toni Crosby Antoinette Aguirre Mike Belanger Beata O’Brien

Presentation prepared by: Toni Crosby Antoinette Aguirre Mike Belanger Beata O’Brien. Water Resource Department Introduction. Oversees two divisions: Domestic Water Agricultural Water Delivers and Conserves water for present and future residents of Bakersfield

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Presentation prepared by: Toni Crosby Antoinette Aguirre Mike Belanger Beata O’Brien

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  1. Presentation prepared by: Toni Crosby Antoinette Aguirre Mike Belanger Beata O’Brien

  2. Water Resource DepartmentIntroduction • Oversees two divisions: • Domestic Water • Agricultural Water • Delivers and Conserves water for present and future residents of Bakersfield • Provide for operations on the Kern River • Regulation • Distribution • Water banking • Record keeping • Involved in local flood control management (Lake Isabella)

  3. Domestic Division • Provides 38,000 connections (out of total of 120,000) to Bakersfield residents and businesses • Connections translate to 130,000-140,000 consumers • Water delivered through water systems • Ashe • Riverlakes • Fairhaven

  4. Agricultural Division • Water contract sales to • agricultural districts: • North Kern • Cawelo • Kern Tulare • Rag Gulch • Rosedale-Rio Bravo (perpetual contract)

  5. THE MARKETING CHANNEL AS A COMBINED SUPPLY & DEMAND CHAIN “Ecology” (Mother Earth) “Value” (Offspring) “Economy” (Father Money) M-Channel “Supply-Chain” Supplies water to reservoirs and storage facilities • “Demand-Chain” • Distributes Water to: • Domestic Customers • Residential • Businesses • Agricultural Customers End Consumer

  6. How does the Water Resource Department fit into supply/demand chain • Water Supplier and Distributor • Supplies water to the storage facilities: • Underground water • Tanks • Water treatment facility at Coffee Rd & Norris • Distributes water to customers • domestic • agricultural

  7. Bakersfield and the Kern River • 1860 Kern Island 21st & M Street • 1861 Kern River Flood • 1863 Colonel Thomas Baker • 1867 Kern River Flood Diverts River • 1871 Petition to the State of California for the right to irrigate farm land • 1874 Kern River Island Canal • Haggin, Tevis, and Carr

  8. Lux vs Haggin • Calloway Canal • Lux - Riparian Rights • Haggin - Rights by Prior Appropriation • Established Water Rights Law in the State of California • 1888 Kern County Water Agreement • 1/3 of Kern River • Buena Vista Lake

  9. So Where did the Water Go?

  10. Tenneco West • Southern California • Cal Water and City of Bakersfield • The Offer • The $17,900,000 Deal • Lake Isabella • 2,800 Acres

  11. Sources of Water

  12. Groundwater • Is pumped for the delivered water supply • 50 active production wells • Capacity- 96,645 acre ft./yr. • Pumped water=demand

  13. Groundwater: Natural Recharge/Precipitation Runoff • Melted snow & rainwater • Goes to kern river & drainage basins “sumps” • 24,000 acre ft./yr., or 12% of COB supply

  14. Canal/River Seepage • Water from KR & earthen canals • 106,000 acre ft./yr. or 54% of COB supply

  15. Reclaimed Water • From 2 wastewater plants • Used on non-edible crops • 20,000 acre ft./yr. or 10% of COB supply

  16. Spreading & Banking • Groundwater is banked • 2800 acre recharge facility-began in 1978 • 6 miles long • Old river channels, overflow lands, and spreading basins • Comes from KR, CVP, SWP • 22,000 acre ft./yr. is banked, 11% of the supply

  17. Historical Depth of Banked Water

  18. Surface Water • Kern River: -sierra nevada mountains -avg. supply of 160,000 acre ft./yr. -43,200 acre ft. can be used for groundwater replenish- ment

  19. State Water Project (SWP) -Agreement w/KCWA ID No. 4 -Imports Ca. Aqueduct water to the basin -Provides up to 15,280 acre ft./yr. for COB Rosedale Rio Bravo Water Storage Dist. -Has 1,100 acres within COB system. -gives 415 acre ft./yr. to COB

  20. Cal Water Agency • Maintains and operates the city system • Supplies to its own customers as well • Purchase KR water from COB, then treat it • Northeast Bakersfield Water Treatment Plant.

  21. Central Valley Water Project • Provides irrigation water through Friant-Kern Canal System • Built to be used w/SWP • Contributes water supply, quality, flood control, power, recreation, and fish/wildlife enhancement

  22. Surface Water Treatment • Henry Garnett Water Plant: -owned by KCWA ID.4 -treats KR, SWP, Central valley water • Ca. water service Co. Filtration Plant: -owned by Cal Water -treats only KR water -1.5 mgd production Both account for 12% total COB supply.

  23. Storage of Water • Aqueduct, canals, tanks, and recharge lakes. • Isabella Dam • 2800 acre water bank

  24. Water Resources Department FY 2006-07/2007-08 Budget Comparison $25,370,394 FY 2006-07 $25,328,777 FY 2007-08

  25. Ag Water Division FY 2007-08 Where It Comes From Total source of funds = $4,533,964

  26. Domestic Water Division City Water Service Area Growth – 1977 vs. 2007 1977 Total City Population = 82,000 2007 Total City Population = 323,213

  27. Domestic Water Division FY 2007-08 Where It Comes From Total Source of funds = $20,794,813

  28. DOMESTIC WATER DIVISION TOTAL SERVICE CONNECTIONS SERVICE CONNECTIONS END OF YEAR (Estimated 2007)

  29. Domestic Growth

  30. Demand Projection

  31. WATER RATE COMPARISON Purveyors within Urban Bakersfield Area $44.26 Average Monthly Water Bill $37.92 $35.19 $31.67 $32.45 $30.27 NOTE: Average based on 28 CCF per month May 2007

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