DATE: June 3, 2026
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Water Utilities Department
TITLE: Resolutions for the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan and the 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan
RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council hold a public hearing and adopt a resolution accepting the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan and adopt a resolution accepting the 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan.
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BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
Urban Water Suppliers, including the City of Oceanside (City), are required to submit an adopted Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) and an adopted Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP) to the State of California (State) every five years by July 1 of years ending in -1 and -6. Required guidelines and procedures are set forth in the California Urban Water Management Planning Act, Water Code Division 6, Part 2.6. The UWMP documents the City's work to ensure adequate water supplies to meet existing and future demands for water through 2050 under a range of water supply conditions, including water shortages. The WSCP, also included as Section 8 of the UWMP, outlines the City's actions to monitor and respond to water shortage conditions. The responses are categorized into 6 levels, depending on how much demand needs to be reduced to meet available supplies. The actions in each level build on restrictions in the previous level to decrease water use as needed. The 2025 WSCP does not make any changes to the water shortage levels or to the potential actions in each level that are currently in place.
The most recent Oceanside plans were adopted on June 16, 2021 and submitted to the State by July 1, 2021. The 2025 draft plans update those plans approved in 2021 with actual water supply and demand numbers from 2020-2025 and reevaluate the numbers projected through 2050. The 2025 draft plans also contain updates to water supply infrastructure projects and changes to population and demand patterns that have b...
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