“We are 100% reliant on imported water right now our goal is to have at least 30% of our needs supplied from local sources by 2030,” SMWD Board President Saundra Jacobs said in a press release.
SMWD is working with the city of San Juan Capistrano and South Coast Water District for the first phase of the project, which, when completed, is expected to provide 5.6 billion gallons of reliable drinking water each year. Plans to capture stormwater runoff by installing rubber dams at San Juan Creek will move forward, as Santa Margarita Water District on Friday, June 21 certified the Environmental Impact Report for its San Juan Watershed Project.
