Oxnard — The Urban Water Management Plan continues, with Water Division Manager Chris Peyton saying they decided to project a middle-of-the-road scenario for a reduction in groundwater allocation.
“THIS is for planning purposes, but we wanted to align with that particular scenario because it also considered the City’s plan to expand AWPF (Advanced Water Purification Facilities) and groundwater recharge,” he said. “As that water goes down in the top two rows, you can, I guess it’s the second row from the bottom, and the third row from the bottom, the increase in IPR, as well as groundwater from that recycled water use in the middle that California is expected that Calleguas Water is expected to remain relatively constant, and that’s typically used
for blending for quality purposes or to maintain operational constraints.”
When they combine the demand and supply projections, he said supply is projected to exceed demand, so that’s one portion of the UWMP to consider, which they call an average or normal year.
“Then we need to stress test it, and the way the State wants you to do that is by looking at conditions of one single drought year, of five consecutive drought years,” he said. “We looked back at what those…
