FROM: Robert Thompson, General Manager
Originator: Mike Dorman, Director of Engineering
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AGREEMENT WITH IRVINE RANCH WATER DISTRICT MOOTING DEFUNCT PRIOR CONTRACTS AND TERMINATING SURVIVAL PROVISIONS
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GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
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RECOMMENDATION: Recommend to the Board of Directors to:
Approve and authorize the General Manager to execute the Agreement Mooting Defunct Prior Contracts and Terminating Survival Provisions between Orange County Sanitation District and Irvine Ranch Water District, in a form approved by General Counsel.
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BACKGROUND
Orange County Sanitation District (OC San) and Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) have had cooperative agreements dating back to the early 1960s. IRWD formally joined the Joint Powers Authority that defined the County Sanitation Districts of Orange County (OC San's predecessor agency) in 1986 as County Sanitation District of Orange County No. 14. Over the course of this relationship, the two agencies have entered into dozens of agreements relating to joint projects, cooperative efforts, conveyances, and financing. As these many agreements between OC San and IRWD have been approved, it has become increasingly more difficult to effectively monitor and track which provisions remain operable and which have been terminated, expired, or superseded.
The OC San Board of Directors took two major initial steps toward these ends in November 2025 with its approval of the new Flow Exchange Agreement, which ratified and clarified service responsibility and aligned revenue collection in some of the shared service areas, and provided for OC San's service to the LAWRP Area through the annexation of the LAWRP Area into OC San; and the Green Acres Project (GAP) Flows Agreement, which established rights and duties with respect to IRWD's supply of recycled water to OCWD's GAP or Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS), and IRWD's capacity to discharge recycled water into the OC San oc...
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