Compton Officials Sign Long-Term Water Storage and Supply Agreement with Metropolitan.
WHAT: Officials of the Compton Municipal Water Department and
Metropolitan Water District sign 25-year agreement for $2.42
million water storage program, from which Compton can draw
during dry periods and droughts.
WHEN: 10 a.m. Tues., Feb. 8
WHERE: Board room, Metropolitan headquarters, 700 N. Alameda St.,
adjoining Union Station (Los Angeles County Thomas Guide
page 634 G/H-3).
WHO: Metropolitan Board Chairman Wes Bannister; Compton Mayor
Eric J. Perrodin; Compton City Councilman and Metropolitan
Director Isadore Hall III; Metropolitan Interim CEO Gilbert
Ivey; Compton Municipal Water General Manager Kambiz Shoghi.
WHAT: Officials sign agreement for Metropolitan's sixth
conjunctive use program with a member water agency using
state Proposition 13 funds in which Metropolitan's imported
surface water is stored in a local aquifer in conjunction
with groundwater. The local agency owns and operates the
facilities, and withdraws the stored water when needed
during a dry period or drought -- thereby freeing up
Metropolitan's other supplies for additional regional uses.
The Compton program will store up to 2,289 acre-feet of
Metropolitan water; an acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons,
enough to provide for two families for a year. Compton will
be able to withdraw up to 763 AF per year for three
consecutive years, if needed.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the largest bulk water supplier for municipal use in the world. The name is usually shortened to the "Metropolitan Water District" or simply "MWD". is a cooperative cooperative Organization owned by and operated for the benefit of those using its services. Cooperatives have been successful in such fields as the processing and marketing of farm products and the purchasing of other kinds of equipment and raw materials, and in the of 26 cities and water agencies serving 18 million people in six counties. The district imports water from the Colorado River Colorado River River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas. and Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern to supplement local supplies, and helps its members to develop increased water conservation, recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. , storage and other resource-management programs. |
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