NorCal Section
Monthly Meeting
April 22, 2008
Recycled Water Program
Public Outreach & Lessons Learned
Doug Venable
El Dorado Irrigation District
• Drinking Water
• Waste Water
• Recycled Water
• Hydroelectric
• Recreation
El Dorado County
Two
WWTPs
Produced
over
1 billion
gallons of
recycled
water
Serrano
First subdivision in California to use dual
plumbed front & back yard landscape irrigation
Required Use
For new developments where recycled water is available
Approved new housing
developments with recycled water
• Blackstone
– 1,445 units
• Hawk View
– 114 units
• Bell Woods
– 80 units
• Carson Creek
– 1,973 units
Total of 3,612 new homes to be built
Golf Course
Residential Front Yards
Residential Back Yards
Medians
Parks
Schoolyards
Building An Outreach Program
Taylor the Program
• Who is your audience?
• What are their concerns?
Dual Plumbed Community
Methods of Communication
• Website & Email
• Workshops & Public meetings
• Brochures
• Bill inserts
• Surveys & Questionnaires
• Fact sheets
• Newspaper articles
• Newsletters
• Postcards...
Building Relationships
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Home Owner’s Associations
Neighborhood groups
Community advocate groups
CC&R’s
Develop trust & relationships
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Education
Transparent objectives
Provide facts
Early planning
Collaboration
Comprehensive Program
Development
• Health & safety
– Title 22
– Cross-connection prevention
– Backflow protection
• Good irrigation practices
• Agency requirements
– Approval process
– Inspections
Site Supervisor
• Industrial & Commercial
– Facility Employee
– Irrigation Contractor
• Responsibilities
– Maintaining system
– Monitor recycled water use
– Uphold local agency rules & regulations
– Train & educate facility personnel
– Report all modifications to system
Site Supervisor
• Residential applications
– Home Owner’s Association
– Resident
• Responsibilities
– Maintaining system
– Monitor recycled water use
– Uphold local agency rules & regulations
• Good irrigation practices
• Agency requirements
– Approval process
– Inspections
Irrigation Workshops
• Face to face meeting
• Irrigation plan and
inspection process
• Local agency rules &
regulations
• Noncompliance
issues
• Questions and
answers
EID Recycled Water Orientation
• Monthly workshop at HOA clubhouse
• Required for;
– Contractors and Landscape Designers
(repeated every 18 months)
– site supervisors
– sales staff
– residents
Lessons Learned
• Developers
– Preconstruction meetings
– Service releases
– Outreach material
– Public meeting venue
– Sales staff
– Transfer responsibility to HOA
Lessons Learned
• Homeowners
– Noncompliance
– Outreach
– Education
– Modifications
– Regulations
Lessons Learned
• Contractors & Designers
– Level playing field
– Noncompliance
– Contractor-Agency
Agreement
– Clear Design & Construction
standards
• Multi lingual versions
NorCal Section
Monthly Meeting
April 22, 2008
QUESTIONS?
Doug Venable
El Dorado Irrigation District