BOARD OF DIRECTORS, MONTEREY PENINSULA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, April 21, 2014 Meeting Featuring Item 8. Consider Approval of Expenditure for Cost Sharing with Soquel Creek Water District for Third Party Review of DeepWater Desal Costs

ABSTRACT: On Monday, April 21, 2014, the Board of Directors, Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, will conduct a Regular Board Meeting at 7:00 P.M. CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 8. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURE FOR COST SHARING WITH SOQUEL CREEK WATER DISTRICT FOR THIRD PARTY REVIEW OF DEEPWATER DESAL COSTS is featured; ITEM 8 materials are embedded. RECOMMENDATION: The General Manager recommends that the Board agree to cost-sharing with Soquel Creek Water District for the third-party review of costs and cost of water from the DeepWater Desal project. The Water Supply Planning Committee considered this item on April 18, 2014, prior to distribution of this staff report. District staff will announce the committee recommendation at the April 21, 2014 Board meeting. The “Peninsula water district board is set to consider paying for half of a $24,800 study of Deep Water Desal's projected desalination plant facility construction and operations costs.,” according to reporting in The Monterey County Herald. The Agenda and REVISED Agenda documents are embedded.

MPWMD Agenda Item 8 04-21-14

CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 8.  CONSIDER APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURE FOR COST SHARING WITH SOQUEL CREEK WATER DISTRICT FOR THIRD PARTY REVIEW OF DEEPWATER DESAL COSTS

Mpwmd Agenda 04-21-14

MONTEREY PENINSULA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT AGENDA, Regular Meeting
Board of Directors
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District
Monday, April 21, 2014

Mpwmd Revised Agenda 04-21-14

MONTEREY PENINSULA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT REVISED AGENDA, Regular Meeting
Board of Directors
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District
Monday, April 21, 2014

RELATED NEWS ARTICLE:
Monterey Peninsula, Soquel water districts consider Deep Water Desal study
Analysis would focus on project construction, operations costs
By Jim Johnson, Herald Staff Writer
Highlight Excerpts:
On Monday, the Peninsula water district board is set to consider paying for half of a $24,800 study of Deep Water Desal's projected desalination plant facility construction and operations costs. Deep Water Desal is planning a plant capable of delivering about 10,000 acre-feet of potable water a year, which could be expanded to as much as 30,000 acre-feet a year. The water management district has already agreed to pay part of the firm's environmental study and permitting costs as part of an effort to support a back-up plan in case California American Water's proposed north Marina desal plant is delayed or founders.

Kennedy Jenks Consultants would conduct the study using as a baseline the Peninsula water authority-commissioned comparison study by SPI in early 2013 of three area desal projects — including the Cal Am and Deep Water Desal proposals, and Peninsula businessman Nader Agha's People's Moss Landing Desal Project.