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Recommendation to adopt resolution to adopt the Gateway Integrated Regional Water Management Plan. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Over the past 18 months, the Gateway Water Management Authority, in cooperation with the City of Long Beach (City), other cities, water agencies, and interested parties of the Los Angeles Gateway Region (Gateway), has developed an Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (IRWMP). An IRWMP is a water planning document designed to find integrated and coordinated solutions for the region’s water-related issues. State funding for water projects is available for eligible areas that have completed the IRWMP planning process to the satisfaction of the State Department of Water Resources. There are currently 24 entities that comprise the Gateway Water Management Authority, and the accompanying map displays the boundary of the Gateway and current cities that are participating in the Gateway Water Management Authority (Attachment A).
IRWMP Process
The IRWMP is a collaborative effort to manage all aspects of water resources in a region. The process crosses jurisdictional, watershed, and political boundaries; involves multiple agencies, stakeholders, individuals, and groups; and attempts to address the issues and differing perspectives of all the entities involved through mutually beneficial solutions. An executive summary of the report is attached (Attachment B) and the entire plan can be found at http://www.gatewayirwmp.org/.
Stakeholders and Outreach
A Stakeholder Group was formed to provide recommendations to the Gateway Water Management Authority on important decisions and to help guide the IRWMP process. Stakeholders include cities, water districts, water companies, water wholesalers and groundwater suppliers, wastewater agencies, watershed-based environmental advocates, watershed organizations, and State and federal agencies. Special emphasis and techniques were employed in the outreach plan to provide disadvantaged communities ...
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