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FROM: Supervisor Tom Torlakson ContraCosta
DATE: November 5, 1985 County
SUBJECT: NEED FOR REGIONAL EFFORT IN WATER CONSERVATION
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: At the outset of 1985, Supervisor Nancy
Fanden, as the incoming chair of our Board, expressed our desire that
everything possible be done in the area of water conservation.
Supervisor Sunne McPeak and myself, as members of the Water Committee,
had been dealing with this subject and working with the Contra Costa
Water District and East Bay Municipal Utility District.
We have made significant strides this year in developing a more
comprehensive water conservation program including specific guidelines
in the land use process.
The process we went through in Contra Costa County may serve as aA/
to ample of how guidelines and regulations may be generated in other Bay
Area jurisdictions. Our county should share information about how we
developed our program with other Bay Area counties and cities through
the Association of Bay Area Governments.
Furthermore, ABAG could combine efforts with that of the
Committee for Water Policy Consensus. A new task force was created in
this year ' s policy consensus work plan--the "Water Conservation and
Water Banking Task Force" chaired by Supervisor Jan Hewitt; I serve as
vice-chair. I feel it is important for the Committee for Water Policy
Consensus to work jointly with ABAG in creating a Bay Area wide effort
to develop .water conservation guidelines.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: I recommmend that we not only encourage our
cities to adopt these water conservation guidelines, !.but that we
encourage all Bay Area counties and cities to go through a similar
process as we have pioneered here in our county and formerly request
that ABAG become officially involved in a regional effort to promote
greater conservation of our precious water resources.
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