SB 463
Drought planning: resiliency measures.
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Bill overview
This bill modifies requirements for small water suppliers and nontransient noncommunity water systems, such as schools, to implement drought resiliency measures. Currently, these systems are required to meter service connections and monitor for water loss by January 1, 2032. However, the bill creates an exemption for water districts with fewer than 500 service connections if they are pursuing state funding, have been denied funding, or cannot secure funding due to program limitations, and if raising local rates is not feasible.
Key provisions
- Exempts water districts with fewer than 500 service connections from metering service connections and monitoring water loss.
- Applies this exemption if the water district is seeking state funding, ineligible for funding, or cannot obtain funding.
- Requires a finding that increasing rates is not a feasible option for the exemption to apply.
- Requires monitoring of production well groundwater levels by January 1, 2023.
- Requires membership in the California Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (CalWARN) or a similar mutual aid organization starting January 1, 2023.
- Requires a backup electrical supply for continuous operations by January 1, 2023.
- Requires a backup water supply or water system intertie by January 1, 2027.
- Requires sufficient capacity for fire flow requirements by January 1, 2032.
Who is affected
- Small water suppliers (serving 15-2,999 connections)
- Nontransient noncommunity water systems (schools)
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SB463:v98#DOCUMENT
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| Amended IN Senate April 09, 2025 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 463
| Introduced by Senator Alvarado-Gil |
| February 19, 2025 |
An act to amend Section 10609.62 of the Water Code, relating to water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 463, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. Drought planning: resiliency measures.
Existing law requires small water suppliers, defined for purposes of these provisions to mean a community water system serving 15 to 2,999 service connections, inclusive, and that provides less than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually, and nontransient noncommunity water systems that are schools to implement specified drought resiliency measures, including, among other things, no later than January 1, 2032, meter metering each service connection and monitor monitoring for water loss due to leakages.
This bill would exempt a water district with fewer than 500 service connections small water supplier or nontransient noncommunity water system from metering each service connection and monitoring for water loss due to leakages. these metering and monitoring requirements if it (1) is in the process of applying for state funding, has been determined to be ineligible for state funding, or is not able to obtain state funding because there is no funding available in applicable state programs, and (2) has made a finding that increasing its rates to raise revenue locally is not a feasible option.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 10609.62 of the Water Code is amended to read:
10609.62.
Small water suppliers and nontransient noncommunity water systems that are schools shall implement, subject to funding availability, all of the following drought resiliency measures:
(a) No later than January 1, 2023, implement monitoring systems sufficient to detect production well groundwater levels.
(b) Beginning no later than January 1, 2023, maintain membership in the California Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (CalWARN) or similar mutual aid organization.
(c) No later than January 1, 2024, to ensure continuous operations during power failures, provide adequate backup electrical supply.
(d) No later than January 1, 2027, have at least one backup source of water supply, or a water system intertie, that meets current water quality requirements and is sufficient to meet average daily demand.
(e) No later than January 1, 2032, meter each service connection and monitor for water loss due to leakages. This subdivision does not apply to a water district with fewer than 500 service connections. shall not apply to a small water supplier or nontransient noncommunity water system that meets both of the following:
(1) The small water supplier or nontransient noncommunity water system is in the process of applying for state funding, has been determined to be ineligible for state funding, or is not able to obtain state funding because there is no funding available in applicable state programs.(2) The small water supplier or nontransient noncommunity water system makes a finding that increasing its rates to raise revenue locally is not a feasible option.
(f) No later than January 1, 2032, have source system capacity, treatment system capacity if necessary, and distribution system capacity to meet fire flow requirements.