Draft 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan

Orange County Water & Wastewater Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan 2024

‒ Status: Complete. Now part of the annual maintenance program. Mitigation: Develop measures to improve access to canyon facilities for fueling and maintenance during wildfires. Collaboration with fire agencies and pre-planning with WEROC are two possibilities. ‒ Status: Complete. Now part of a standard operating procedure Mitigation: Continue existing community and customer outreach programs/modules, including landscaping, irrigation, water quality, water efficiency, leak detection, and other relevant topics as needed. ‒ Status: Complete. O.9 PLAN INTEGRATION IRWD’s capital budget, Capital Improvements Program, Infrastructure Master Planning, and other planning and response documentation are all used to implement mitigation initiatives identified in this annex. IRWD will update its Emergency Response Plan (aka EOP) that will establish protocol and incorporate applicable areas of the MJHMP. After adoption of the MJHMP, the District will continue to integrate mitigation priorities into these documents. Since the pervious plan update, IRWD incorporated information from the HMP in its Capital Investment Plan (CIP), updated various plans, and procedures and conducted the following activities to support plan integration: The risk assessment and mitigation actions were used to inform IRWD’s updates to the Master Plan and UWMP. The Capital Budget was used to implement mitigation initiatives identified in the previous plan. The risk assessment informed the need for additional studies focused on risk reduction and mitigation implementation.

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