Capital Improvement Plan, 2007-08

2006·33.3 MB·English

by  Santa Clara Valley Water District.

CIP
CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT
PROGRAM
SM
2007/2008
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Tony Estremera, Chair
At Large
Rosemary C. Kamei, Vice-Chair Joe Judge
District 1 District 2

Richard P. Santos Larry Wilson
District 3 District 4

Patrick Kwok Sig Sanchez
District 5 At Large

Submitted by

Stanley M. Williams
General Manager

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
About the District ................................................................................I-2
Local Community and Economy .........................................................I-12
Industry Trends and Strategic Issues ................................................... I-13
OVERVIEW
Overview .............................................................................................II-1
Alignment with Ends Policies .................................................................II-1
CIP Planning Process ............................................................................II-2
Fiscal Year 2007-08 CIP Summary ........................................................II-4
WATER SUPPLY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
Water Supply Overview .......................................................................III-1
Priority Process and Financial Analysis ..................................................III-2
Water Supply Funded Projects ..............................................................III-3
Water Supply Funding Source ..............................................................III-4
Storage Facilities .................................................................................III-5
Transmission Facilities .......................................................................III-25
Treatment Facilities ............................................................................III-65
Recycled Water Facilities ..................................................................III-105
FLOOD PROTECTION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
Flood Protection Overview ...................................................................IV-1
Priority Process and Financial Analysis ..................................................IV-2
Flood Protection Funded Projects..........................................................IV-3
Lower Peninsula Watershed .................................................................IV-5
West Valley Watershed ......................................................................IV-15
Guadalupe Watershed ......................................................................IV-31
Coyote Watershed ............................................................................IV-39
Uvas/Llagas Watershed .....................................................................IV-53
Multiple Watersheds ..........................................................................IV-57
MITIGATION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
Mitigation Overview ...........................................................................IV-1
Priority Process and Financial Analysis ..................................................IV-1
Mitigation Funded Projects ...................................................................IV-2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
Buildings and Grounds Overview ........................................................VII-1
Priority Process and Financial Analysis .................................................VII-1
Buildings and Grounds Funded Projects ..............................................VII-2
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
Information Technology Overview ......................................................VIII-1
Priority Process and Financial Analysis ................................................VIII-1
Information Technology Funded Projects .............................................VIII-2
FINANCIAL PLANNING AND SUMMARY

CIP Financial Planning ........................................................................IX-1
CIP Financial Summary .......................................................................IX-5
Project Funding Schedules
Water Enterprise Fund ....................................................................IX-6
Lower Peninsula Watershed Fund ....................................................IX-8
West Valley Watershed Fund ...........................................................IX-9
Guadalupe Watershed Fund .........................................................IX-10
Coyote Watershed Fund ...............................................................IX-11
Uvas/Llagas Watershed Fund .......................................................IX-11
Clean Safe Creeks and Natural Flood Protection Fund ...................IX-12
Watershed and Stream Stewardship Fund .....................................IX-13
General Fund ..............................................................................IX-13
All Funds .....................................................................................IX-14
APPENDICES
Appendix A – CIP Priority Criteria ..........................................................X-1
Appendix B – Project List by Priority .......................................................X-7
Appendix C – District Partnership Summary List....................................X-13
Appendix D – Summary of Capital Expenditures ..................................X-15
Appendix E – Glossary .......................................................................X-17
INTRODUCTION
With its headquarters
in San Jose, California, the
Santa Clara Valley Water
District is the primary water
resources agency for Santa
Clara County. Its key products
and services are wholesale
treated water; flood protection;
environmental stewardship;
and open space and trails.
The District provides a reliable
supply of clean, safe water
for the more than 1.8 million
people of the county. It also
works to protect residents
and businesses from the
devastating effects of flooding;
and serves as environmental
steward for the county’s 800-
plus miles of streams and
creeks, groundwater basins
and District-owned reservoirs.
The Santa Clara Valley Water
District is unique in the state as
an independent special district
with countywide responsibility
for multiple key aspects of
water resources management.
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ABOUT THE DISTRICT San Jose, Santa Clara, Saratoga, and Sunnyvale. The
The mission of the Santa Clara Valley Water District County’s geography ranges from Palo Alto in the north,
is a vital one, serving a critical public need for sound to Gilroy in the south.
management of water resources in Santa Clara
County. Since 1929, when it was created by an act of 1.8 million residents in Santa Clara County as of
the state legislature, the District has worked hard to January 1, 2007. The District makes sure there is enough
carry out its mission on behalf of Santa Clara County clean, safe water for homes and businesses; works to
residents. Over the last 78 years, the District has protect Santa Clara County residents and businesses
responded to a growing list of community concerns: from the devastating effects of flooding; and serves as
a reliable, high-quality water supply; protection from the steward for the county’s more than 700 miles of
flooding; and protection of environmental streams and creeks, underground aquifers and District-
resources. built reservoirs.
As the primary water resources agency for Santa The District is the largest dual-purpose water and
Clara County, the water district encompasses all of flood management special district in California. Its
the county’s 1,300 square miles and serves the area’s comprehensive management of surface, ground and
15 cities as well as the unincorporated area of the imported water on a regional and countywide basis
County, There are 15 cities in the County of Santa provides an economy of scale; consistency in
Clara, including: Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los wholesale pricing; service reliability; and level of
Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Monte environmental protection that would not be possible if
Sereno, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Palo Alto, its services were fragmented among several agencies.
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Serving as an independent special district requires (a) to protect Santa Clara County from flood and storm
an enhanced level of outreach, engagement and waters of the district, including tidal flood
collaboration with our customers, stakeholders and waters and the flood and storm waters of streams that
partners. As the District responds to varied challenges, have their sources outside the district, but flow into the
including increased regulations; uncertainty of imported district;
water supplies; threats to the water supply from
natural catastrophes, contaminants and terrorism; and (b) to protect from those flood or storm waters the
economic downturns, our Board, management and staff public highways, life and property in the district, and
seek public input in finding solutions. Collaboration the watercourses and watersheds of streams flowing
with the community we serve is a key District value, within the district;
and we believe it results in more successful outcomes.
(c) to provide for the conservation and management
Community action created the District, when of flood, storm, reclaimed, or recycled waters, or
farmers and business representatives formed the Santa other waters from any sources within or outside the
Clara Valley Water Conservation Committee in the watershed in which the district is located for
1920s. At that time, groundwater supplies were being beneficial and useful purposes, including spreading,
overpumped, causing the land to subside, or sink. storing, retaining, and causing the waters to percolate
The committee pursued creation of an into the soil within the district;
organization to manage and replenish groundwater
supplies, and the resulting Santa Clara Valley Water (d) to protect, save, store, recycle, distribute, transfer,
Conservation District later constructed reservoirs exchange, manage, and conserve in any manner any of
throughout the county to conserve water. The 1929 the waters;
Santa Clara Valley Water District Act gives the District
its authority to operate as a state special district, with (e) to increase, and prevent the waste or diminution of,
jurisdiction throughout Santa Clara County. the water supply in the district;
The current District Act authorizes the District to: (f) to obtain, retain, reclaim, protect, and recycle
“...provide comprehensive water management for all drainage, storm, flood waters or treated wastewaters,
beneficial uses and protection from flooding within or other waters from any sources, within or outside
Santa Clara County. The district may take action to the watershed in which the district is located for any
carry out all of the following purposes: beneficial uses within the district;
(g) and to enhance, protect, and restore streams,
riparian corridors, and natural resources in
connection with carrying out the objects and
purposes set forth in this section.”
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Control and Water District and the Santa Clara Valley
More recently the District Act was amended in Water Conservation District to create the present-day
September 2006 with the passage of AB 2435 by Santa Clara Valley Water District. The change will also
Assemblyman Joe Coto, D-San Jose. affect the Districts seven member board,
of which five are elected board members and two
The amendments end county oversight of the water were appointed by the County Board of Supervisors.
district’s budget and other procedural holdovers from This legislation takes effect this year although the two
a 1968 merger of the former Santa Clara County Flood appointed board members will retain their seats until
January 1, 2010.
Board directorial districts
SF BAY
District
3
District
District
5
District 2
District
4
1
North
(At Large)
District
1
South
(At Large)
PACIFIC OCEAN
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organizational outcomes to be achieved. The Chief
Governance and Board of Directors Executive Officer (CEO) leads District staff in
The District Act outlines the structure, function and interpreting these policies and carrying out the work
operations of the District’s Board of Directors, which that aligns resources with the policies to help achieve
governs the District and directs the CEO. As defined and carry them out.
by the District Act, the Board is comprised of seven
members, five of whom are elected directly by voters The Board’s Executive Limitation policies set
from the county’s five supervisory districts. The other boundaries on CEO authority in meeting the Ends
two Board members are at-large, appointed by the Santa policies. The CEO is solely accountable to the Board
Clara County Board of Supervisors, one for the south for District performance, which is monitored quarterly
portion of the county and one for the north portion of through reports and meetings on the TOP Work Plan,
the county. The latter two board members will serve out the District Scorecard, and other
their terms until January 2010 due to the recent passage processes. The CEO communicates Board
of AB2435. Board members serve overlapping four-year priorities to executive leadership, management, and
terms. The Board annually elects a new Chair and Vice- staff through regular meetings and through a staff
Chair to serve each calendar year. newsletter.
The Board provides leadership in policy direction via Board members may not exercise authority
a system of Policy Governance®. Through its Ends individually over the District or CEO, but rather must
policies, described in detail in Chapter Four, the work together and communicate priorities through
Board establishes the District’s mission and broad policies as one unified group. The Board annually
reviews and updates Ends and Executive Limitations
policies to ensure they reflect the Board’s collective
values and perspectives.
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History Timeline
Due to increased growth, the
county’s water use shifts from
Throughout its 78-year history, the District has strived to serve the
primarily agricultural to domestic
public with excellence, improving and expanding its products and and industrial.

services to meet the growing needs of Santa Clara County residents.
The South Santa Clara Valley
Water Conservation District builds
the Chesbro and Uvas dams to
Explosive post-war increase storage and recharge
population growth. efforts.

90-: Major The Central Santa Clara Valley
drought occurs. Water Conservation District is
annexed to the Santa Clara Valley
Land subsidence Water Conservation District. Water
Concern over land worsens, particularly in conservation education efforts
subsidence, or sinking north San Jose, begin in earnest.
from overpumping the Calero, Almaden, due to overpumping
groundwater basin, Guadalupe, Vasona, of groundwater. 9: The county board of
leads farmers and Stevens Creek and supervisors forms the Santa Clara
business leaders push Coyote reservoirs are Voters pass bonds to County Flood Control and Water
for the formation of completed. Recharging construct two more Conservation District to protect
the Santa Clara Valley of the underground large dams for the county from flooding and
Nearly 14,000 acres Water Conservation aquifers begins. water storage and supplement local water supply with
of orchards and Committee. percolation: Lexington imported water.
vineyards are under 9, 97 and and Anderson.
irrigation in Santa 99: The Santa 98: The “Christmas Week” floods of
Clara Valley. Local Clara Valley Water Floods halt 90, 9 and 1955 leave thousands homeless.
farmers begin noticing Conservation District transportation and 9: Floods occur The Guadalupe River alone floods
a significant drop in is formed by the State inundate orchards and in the midst of drought 8,300 acres, the worst flood on
well water levels. Legislature. pasture lands. and land subsidence. that river in recorded history.
Early 1900s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
1960s 1970s
90: The county’s population swells to 642,000. The Santa Clara Valley Flood Control and Water
District changes its name to the Santa Clara Valley
9: President John F. Kennedy and Gov. Edmund Water District.
G. “Pat” Brown dedicate the San Luis Dam and
Reservoir west of Los Baños. Penitencia Water Treatment Plant comes on line.

9: The state of California begins delivering 97-77: Historic drought years reduce deliveries
water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta from the State Water Project; delta water is too salty
to Santa Clara County via the South Bay Aqueduct. to be percolated into local aquifers, but is still used
Slowly, the addition of imported water to recharge by the treatment plants.
efforts begins to reverse land subsidence, and by
1969 it is halted for the first time in 40 years. Conservation efforts achieve a 22 percent drop in

water usage.
Rinconada Water Treatment Plant begins drinking
water treatment and distribution operations in Los
Gatos.

98: The Santa Clara Valley Water Conservation
District and the Santa Clara County Flood Control
and Water Conservation District merge to manage
the water supply and flood programs for most of the
county.
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