Title
Options for the Long-Range Water Supply Plan
Recommended Action
I move that the Board of Public Utilities approve Option 1 to proceed to amend the contract with Daniel B. Stephens to revise the Long-Range Water Supply Plan to satisfy the Council motion and update all water data.
Staff Recommendation
Staff recommends that the Board approve as presented.
Body
DPU presented the Long-Range Water Supply Plan to County Council on March 21, 2017 for adoption. Council rejected the plan as presented by the following motion.
"Council reject the plan as presented and ask the Board of Public Utilities to correct the wording concerning LACWU which should be Incorporated County of Los Alamos and to revise the wording regarding use of San Juan Chama water rights to make clear that it is a last contingency and where the actual well to be drilled is at a location to be determined in the future."
Staff provides the following options for the Board of Public Utilities consideration.
Option 1- Proceed to amend the contract with Daniel B. Stephens to make the necessary changes to the plan to satisfy the Council motion. In additon, due to the length of time that has elapsed in gaining approval of the plan, update all water data to include 2016 data. Approval of the plan will now take place in the fall of 2017 and the Office of the State Engineer will likely not accept the plan based on data that is not current (currently incorporates up to 2015 data). We will request updated LANL water projections, in light of the proposed super computing project with projects significant increases of electric load in 2020 and 2025. The estimated cost for this level of effort by DB Stephens is $24,102.00
Option 2- Proceed to amend the contract with Daniel B. Stephens to make the minimum necessary changes to the plan to satisfy the Council motion. The estimated cost for this option is $13,373.00.
Option 3- Defer updating the plan until the lease for LANL water rights and the wa...
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