CHAPTER 9. Urban Water Use Objectives and Water Use Reporting

Chapter 9 added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 15, Sec. 7.

§§ 10609–10609.38 · 26 sections

§ 10609 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that this chapter establishes a method to estimate the aggregate amount of water that would have been delivered the…
§ 10609.2 (a) The board, in coordination with the department, shall adopt long-term standards for the efficient use of water pursuant to this chapter on or before June…
§ 10609.4 (a) (1) Until January 1, 2025, the standard for indoor residential water use shall be 55 gallons per capita daily. (2) Beginning January 1, 2025, and until…
§ 10609.6 (a) (1) The department, in coordination with the board, shall conduct necessary studies and investigations and recommend, no later than October 1, 2021,…
§ 10609.8 (a) The department, in coordination with the board, shall conduct necessary studies and investigations and recommend, no later than October 1, 2021, standards…
§ 10609.9 For purposes of Sections 10609.6 and 10609.8, “principles of the model water efficient landscape ordinance” means those provisions of the model water efficient…
§ 10609.10 (a) The department, in coordination with the board, shall conduct necessary studies and investigations and recommend, no later than October 1, 2021,…
§ 10609.12 The standards for water loss for urban retail water suppliers shall be the standards adopted by the board pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 10608.34.
§ 10609.14 (a) The department, in coordination with the board, shall conduct necessary studies and investigations and, no later than October 1, 2021, recommend for…
§ 10609.15 To help streamline water data reporting, the department and the board shall do all of the following: (a) Identify urban water reporting requirements shared by…
§ 10609.16 The department, in coordination with the board, shall conduct necessary studies and investigations and recommend, no later than October 1, 2021, guidelines and…
§ 10609.18 The department and the board shall solicit broad public participation from stakeholders and other interested persons in the development of the standards and…
§ 10609.20 (a) Each urban retail water supplier shall calculate its urban water use objective no later than January 1, 2024, and by January 1 every year thereafter. (b)…
§ 10609.21 (a) For purposes of Section 10609.20, and notwithstanding paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of Section 10609.20, “existing facility” also includes the North…
§ 10609.22 (a) An urban retail water supplier shall calculate its actual urban water use no later than January 1, 2024, and by January 1 every year thereafter. (b) The…
§ 10609.24 (a) An urban retail water supplier shall submit a report to the department no later than January 1, 2024, and by January 1 every year thereafter. The report…
§ 10609.25 As part of the first report submitted to the department by an urban retail water supplier no later than January 1, 2024, pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section…
§ 10609.26 (a) (1) On and after January 1, 2024, the board may issue informational orders pertaining to water production, water use, and water conservation to an urban…
§ 10609.27 Notwithstanding Section 10609.26, the board shall not issue an information order, written notice, or conservation order pursuant to Section 10609.26 if both of…
§ 10609.28 The board may issue a regulation or informational order requiring a wholesale water supplier, an urban retail water supplier, or a distributor of a public…
§ 10609.30 On or before January 10, 2024, the Legislative Analyst shall provide to the appropriate policy committees of both houses of the Legislature and the public a…
§ 10609.32 It is the intent of the Legislature that the chairperson of the board and the director of the department appear before the appropriate policy committees of…
§ 10609.33 (a) On or before January 1, 2028, the department, in coordination with the board, shall submit a report to the Legislature on the progress of urban retail…
§ 10609.34 Notwithstanding Section 15300.2 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, an action of the board taken under this chapter shall be deemed to be a…
§ 10609.36 (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to determine or alter water rights. Sections 1010 and 1011 apply to water conserved through implementation of…
§ 10609.38 The board may waive the requirements of this chapter for a period of up to five years for any urban retail water supplier whose water deliveries are…