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Welcome to Be Heard, Valley Water&rsquo;s online engagement site where you can contribute your ideas and feedback. We will listen to what you say, take your opinions into account, and report back to you on how community input contributes to Valley Water projects. In addition to the featured projects below, learn more at <a href="//valleywater.org">valleywater.org</a>.

Welcome to Be Heard Valley Water

On June 9, 2021, Valley Water’s Board of Directors declared a water shortage emergency condition.

Drought and Water Conservation

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">At Valley Water, we are working to protect our community&rsquo;s drinking water, keep residents and businesses safe from flooding and natural disasters, repair and replace aging dams, reservoirs and pipelines, while reducing toxins, hazards and contaminants in our waterways.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Anderson Reservoir is currently limited to about 58% of its capacity due to seismic concerns, costing Santa Clara County valuable drinking water resources. This project covers earthquake retrofitting of Anderson Dam to improve reliability and safety, and returns the reservoir to its original storage capacity.

Anderson Dam Seismic Retrofit Project

The Pacheco Reservoir Expansion Project is a strategic and long-term investment toward ensuring a more reliable supply of safe, clean drinking water in the face of climate change.

Pacheco Reservoir Expansion

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Valley Water needs your input on our <a href="https://www.valleywater.org/sites/default/files/DRAFT%20Valley%20Water%20Public%20Trail%20Policy%20Critera%20and%20Guidance.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 114, 198); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Public Trails on Valley Water Lands: Draft Policy Criteria and Guidance</a>. This policy describes how Valley Water collaborates with local municipalities interested in using its lands for public trail use. You can provide your input by clicking on the Survey Monkey link below. Our goal is to:<ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Develop a policy that supports healthy communities by providing appropriate public trail use on Valley Water lands, engage residents with water resources stewardship, and protect streamside ecosystems.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Create a joint-use review process for trail projects, including requirements that maintain Valley Water&rsquo;s operational, water supply and quality, flood protection, and environmental stewardship functions.</li></ol>The right of this page is a survey seeking your thoughts on the Public Trails Policy. Please click the link for the survey.

Public Trails Policy

Valley Water is expanding its ability to replenish its groundwater with purified water, a drought-resilient, and locally controlled water source. Valley Water must meet future water demand and identify a sustainable water supply to combat the effects of climate change. The Purified Water Project will help meet those water supply goals, which include providing at least 10% of water demand in Santa Clara County through recycled and purified water.The project will allow Valley Water to develop the use of purified water to supplement existing water sources in a manner that minimizes environmental impacts.The Purified Water Project will evaluate building an advanced water purification facility at one of two potential sites:Expansion at the existing Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center located on Zanker Road in San Jose;At the former Los Altos Treatment Plant site, which is owned by the City of Palo Alto and located on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto.When completed, this project will build a facility capable of providing at least 10 million gallons per day of high-quality, drought-resilient water. From one of these sites, a conveyance pipeline and an onsite pump station would be constructed to transport purified water to groundwater recharge ponds along Los Gatos Creek located in the city of Campbell. This water would supplement existing water from other sources to replenish groundwater, especially during drier years. Depending upon the selected route, the conveyance pipeline would be approximately 18 to 20 miles long.Oka Groundwater Recharge Ponds near Los Gatos CreekAbout Groundwater ReplenishmentFollowing purification at the treatment facility, purified water is transported through a pipeline system to groundwater recharge ponds. At these ponds, purified water naturally filters through underground soil, gravel, and rock before replenishing groundwater basins. Here, the water will blend with water already in the basin over several months and years before reaching wells for drinking or home use.What is Purified Water?Water has always been nature’s renewable resource and is constantly moving through the water cycle. Purifying water simply speeds up that natural process by using a multistep effort to remove potential water contaminants, creating a drought-resilient and sustainable water source.How Safe is Purified Water?Purified water is safe and meets or exceeds state and federal drinking water standards. It is tested regularly by our certified Water Quality Lab to ensure safety and quality. Upon completion of the Purified Water Project, Valley Water will be able to use purified water to add to our groundwater replenishment efforts. Valley Water will join many other places in the United States and worldwide in using this water purification and replenishment method, including Monterey and Orange counties in California, Texas, Australia, and Singapore. To learn more about how purified water is used as a drinking water source and the purification treatment process, please visit purewater4u.org. There, you can also sign up for tours of the existing Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center.

Purified Water Project

Following the census that occurs every 10 years, Valley Water is required to update and adjust the boundaries of electoral districts to ensure the community is equally represented.

Redistricting

A road map to manage our water resources<hr>ONE WATER VISIONTo manage Santa Clara County water resources holistically and sustainably to benefit people and the environment in a way that is informed by community values.<hr>ABOUTThe One Water Plan integrates the water supply, flood protection, and stream stewardship missions of Valley Water at the watershed scale. Drawing from detailed existing programs and plans, One Water seeks to find the nexus between these three mission components for new opportunities in integrated water resources management. One Water does not replace the substantial existing planning in place by Valley Water&#39;s Water Utility Enterprise and the Watersheds Division but instead looks for opportunities to further protect and enhance water resources.<hr>Upper Pajaro River Watershed One Water PlanIncreasing demands on California&rsquo;s water resources call for an integrated and equitable approach to water resources management. This integrated approach is reflected in Valley Water&rsquo;s mission, which is to provide Silicon Valley with safe, clean water for a healthy life, environment, and economy. To accomplish this mission, the Valley Water Board of Directors adopted Governance Policies that guide all Valley Water work and decision-making processes.However, as water management challenges continue to exacerbate due to climate change, urban growth pressures, agricultural water supply challenges, and other continuously changing conditions, Valley Water was in need of a more structured decision-making process to strategically allocate limited resources to those actions that will help it achieve its mission and service to the community most effectively. This is how the One Water planning effort was born.The One Water planning effort consists of two phases: 1) a Countywide framework to develop the vision, goals, and objectives as guidance for watershed-based planning, and 2) Watershed level plans specific to each of the five watersheds located within Santa Clara County. The initial version of the One Water Santa Clara Countywide Framework (One Water Framework) was completed in 2022. The One Water Upper Pajaro River Watershed Plan (Plan) is the second of five watershed plans that will encompass and complement the on-going One Water planning effort. The One Water Framework serves as guidance for this Plan. It is important to note that the One Water planning effort is not designed to be a static, one-time effort with supporting documentation that becomes outdated and irrelevant. It is meant to be a living document with regular updates made in response to changing conditions, which will adapt and allocate resources where needed the most.This Plan analyzes the Upper Pajaro River Watershed&rsquo;s flooding, water supply, and ecosystem management challenges; identifies areas needing improvement; and prioritizes actions for the future. In the process, it also brings multiple divisions and jurisdictions together and sharpens Valley Water&rsquo;s planning focus on multi-benefit projects. <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ehq-production-us-california/2920d5e902ca626089bdf70b7f6d40405973b861/original/1648588008/ae47b47a3dd43c333428d7c45695efa7_Figure_2.2_Upper_Pajaro_River_Watershed.jpg?1648588008" alt="Pajaro River Watershed">Pajaro River Watershed<div class="fr-img-space-wrap"><img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ehq-production-us-california/9b20a4f4fc7378f444efdca7917056a86b3dfb4b/original/1648592836/90db4a90e4db148d10534db4140afadc_Figure_X.X_Upper_Pajaro_River__Watershed_Plan_Scope_v.1.jpg?1648592836">Upper Pajaro River Watershed </div> <div class="fr-img-space-wrap"> </div>

Upper Pajaro River Watershed One Water Plan

A road map to manage our water resources<hr>ONE WATER VISIONTo manage Santa Clara County water resources holistically and sustainably to benefit people and the environment in a way that is informed by community values.<hr>ABOUTThe One Water Plan integrates the water supply, flood protection, and stream stewardship missions of Valley Water at the watershed scale. Drawing from detailed existing programs and plans, One Water seeks to find the nexus between these three mission components for new opportunities in integrated water resources management. One Water does not replace the substantial existing planning in place by Valley Water&#39;s Water Utility Enterprise and the Watersheds Division but instead looks for opportunities to further protect and enhance water resources.<hr> Guadalupe Watershed One Water PlanIncreasing demands on California&rsquo;s water resources call for an integrated and equitable approach to water resources management. As water management challenges are exacerbated by stressors such as climate change, urban growth pressures, and water supply challenges, Valley Water is in need of a comprehensive decision-making process that enables it to strategically allocate limited resources to actions that most effectively achieve its mission: providing Silicon Valley with safe, clean water for a healthy life, environment, and economy. The One Water planning effort was created to provide this decision-making framework. The One Water planning effort consists of two phases: 1) a Countywide framework to develop the vision, goals, and objectives as guidance for watershed-based planning, and 2) Watershed level plans specific to each of the five watersheds located within Santa Clara County. The initial version of the One Water Santa Clara Countywide Framework (One Water Framework) was completed in 2022. The One Water Guadalupe Watershed Plan is the third of five watershed plans that support the ongoing One Water planning effort. The plan analyzes key characteristics of Guadalupe watershed&rsquo;s land use, water supply, water quality, flooding, natural ecosystem, and climate change challenges to identify areas needing improvement, investigate potential solutions, and prioritize actions for the future. <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ehq-production-us-california/3659e8f286570fe1ab3c770fcd1ebb282ffbb8a5/original/1654107560/1ec478e0d91b436d5bab84d1126adc1f_Fig_1.1_Guadalupe_Watershed_-_Watershed.jpg?1654107560" style="width: 552px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">

Guadalupe Watershed One Water Plan

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