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ATTACHMENT 8
SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY IRWM IMPLEMENTATION GRANT PROPOSAL
BENEFITS AND COST ANALYSIS
The South Orange County IRWM Implementation Grant Proposal includes the following projects:
1. Municipal Water District of Orange County’s Comprehensive Landscape Water Use Efficiency Program.
2. Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary’s Riparian Invasion Control, Restoration, Monitoring, and Education Project.
3. Irvine Ranch Water District’s Baker Water Treatment Plant.
4. South Coast Water District’s Targeted Water Conservation Program.
The total present value of all costs and benefits for each project are presented below in Table 20.
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Table 20 – Proposal Benefits and Costs SummaryProposal: South Orange County IRWM Implementation Grant Proposal
Project / Project Proponent / Total Present Value Project Costs / Total Present Value Project Benefits / From Section D1 –
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Cost Savings / From Section D2 –
Briefly describe the main Non-monetized benefits
From Section D3 –
Monetized / From Section D4 –
Flood Damage Reduction / Total
(a) / (b) / (c) / (d) / (e) / (f) = (d) + (e) / (g) / (h)
Comprehensive Landscape Water Use Efficiency Program / Municipal Water District of Orange County / $ 1,425,313 / $6,716,836 / $0 / $6,716,836 / See Table 12
Riparian Invasion Control, Restoration, Monitoring, and Education Project / Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary / $210,337 / $5,046,258 / $0 / $5,046,258 / See Table 12
Baker Water Treatment Plant / Irvine Ranch Water District / $724,089,030 / $ 770,338,726 / $0 / $ 770,338,726 / See Table 12
Targeted Water Conservation Program / South Coast Water District’s / $541,079 / $3,055,380 / $0 / $3,055,380 / See Table 12
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1. MWDOC - Comprehensive Landscape Water Use Efficiency Program
I. Non-Monetized Benefits Analysis
Additional non-monetized benefits yielded from this Comprehensive Landscape Water Use Efficiency (CLWUE) Program are denoted in Table 12 and described below.
Community/Social Benefits
Education or Technology Benefits: Through the site survey process and subsequent reports provided as part of this Program, educational and technological benefits are provided directly to the participant. The site surveys identify major water uses, potential water savings measures, and summarize recommended retrofits and changes to operating practices that will result in significant water savings.
Environmental Stewardship Benefits
The following environmental stewardship benefits were not quantified in Attachment 7.
Improve Water Quality: In addition to how this Program contributes to: 1) reduce the rate of dry weather runoff resulting in pollution prevention from existing landscapes; 2) encourage the use of low impact development practices in the landscape to help preserve sustainability and watershed health; and 3) increase water use efficiency by using landscape water beneficially, and not wastefully, thereby resulting in sustainable water resource management.
Sustainability Benefits
Improve Overall Long-Term Management: The Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC) in collaboration with its retail agencies as well as the cities of Anaheim, Fullerton, and Santa Ana, established the Orange County 20x2020 Regional Alliance (Regional Alliance) in MWDOC’s 2010 Regional Urban Water Management Plan (RUWMP) attached as Att8_IG2_BenCost_2 of 2. The Regional Alliance was created to provide flexibility to meet the per capita reductions on a regional basis without adding additional risk to the retail agencies, who can still achieve compliance on the individual level. Under the Regional Alliance, all retail water agencies can benefit from pooling their investments in water use efficiency.
Long-term Sustainability Practices: As the recommendations provide water efficient equipment changes and not just operational procedures, the water savings provides a long-term solution in place of short-term modifications.
Reduce Demand from the Delta: MWDOC purchases imported water from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, of the imported water supply, 31% is from the State Water Project. Conserved water from the proposed Program could result in decreased net demand on Delta Diversions. See the Local Water Demand section of Attachment 7 for more information.
Table 12 – Non-monetized Benefits ChecklistNo. / Question / Enter “Yes” “No”
Community/Social Benefits
Will the proposal
1 / Provide education or technology benefits? / Yes
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Include educational features that should result in water supply, water quality, or flood damage reduction benefits?
· Develop, test, or document a new technology for water supply, water quality, or flood damage reduction management?
· Provide some other education or technological benefit?
2 / Provide social recreation or access benefits? / No
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Provide new or improved outdoor recreation opportunities?
· Provide more access to open space?
· Provide some other recreation or public access benefit?
3 / Help avoid, reduce or resolve various public water resources conflicts? / No
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Provide more opportunities for public involvement in water management?
· Help avoid or resolve an existing conflict as evidenced by recurring fines or litigation?
· Help meet an existing state mandate (e.g., water quality, water conservation, flood control)?
4 / Promote social health and safety? / No
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Increase urban water supply reliability for fire-fighting and critical services following seismic events?
· Reduce risk to life from dam failure or flooding?
· Reduce exposure to water-related hazards?
5 / Have other social benefits? / No
· Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Redress or increase inequitable distribution of environmental burdens?
· Have disproportionate beneficial or adverse effects on disadvantaged communities, Native Americans, or other distinct cultural groups?
Environmental Stewardship Benefits:
Will the proposal
6 / Benefit wildlife or habitat in ways that were not quantified in Attachment 7? / No
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Cause an increase in the amount or quality of terrestrial, aquatic, riparian or wetland habitat?
· Contribute to an existing biological opinion or recovery plan for a listed special status species?
· Preserve or restore designated critical habitat of a listed species?
· Enhance wildlife protection or habitat?
7 / Improve water quality in ways that were not quantified in Attachment 7? / Yes
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Cause an improvement in water quality in an impaired water body or sensitive habitat?
· Prevent water quality degradation?
· Cause some other improvement in water quality?
8 / Reduce net emissions in ways that were not quantified in Attachment 7? / No
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Reduce net production of greenhouse gasses?
· Reduce net emissions of other harmful chemicals into the air or water?
9 / Provide other environmental stewardship benefits, other than those claimed in Sections D1, D3, or D4? / No
Sustainability Benefits:
Will the proposal
10 / Improve the overall, long-term management of California groundwater resources? / Yes
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Reduce extraction of non-renewable groundwater?
· Promote aquifer storage or recharge?
11 / Reduce demand for net diversions for the regions from the Delta? / Yes
12 / Provide a long-term solution in place of a short-term one? / Yes
13 / Promote energy savings or replace fossil fuel based energy sources with renewable energy and resources? / No
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Reduce net energy use on a permanent basis?
· Increase renewable energy production?
· Include new buildings or modify buildings to include certified LEED features?
· Provide a net increase in recycling or reuse of materials?
· Replace unsustainable land or water management practices with recognized sustainable practices?
14 / Improve water supply reliability in ways not quantified in Attachment 7? / No
Examples are not limited to, but may include:
· Provide a more flexible mix of water sources?
· Reduce likelihood of catastrophic supply outages?
· Reduce supply uncertainty?
· Reduce supply variability?
15 / Other (If the above listed categories do not apply, provide non-monetized benefit description)? / No
II. Narrative for Values in Tables 15-19
Table 15: Annual Benefits
Table 15 quantifies annual benefits in the form of regional cost savings due to a reduced need for imported water supply purchases. The project will result in a net reduction of 888 acre-feet per year as a result of lower water needs in existing CLWUE residential and commercial sites. These water savings are included through the year 2025, which represents the end of the project’s useful life. The economic value of these savings in Column (g) is the projected future cost of Treated Full Service Tier 1 water from Metropolitan’s Draft 2010 Long Range Finance Plan (December, 2010) a summary presentation of this plan is attached as Att8_IG2_BenCost_2 of 2.
A significant portion of the projected benefits occurs many years into the project’s life. By accounting for the time value of money with a 6.0% discount factor, these benefits are significantly diminished on a present value basis.
The total present value of this avoided imported water costs reported in Table 15, is $6,716,836.35.
Table 16: Annual Costs of Avoided Projects
Not Applicable
Table 17: Expected Annual Damage
Not Applicable
Table 18: Present Value of Annual Damage Reduction Benefits
Not Applicable
Table 19: Project Economic Costs
The total projected cost of the proposal through the year 2033 is $1,660,817, as described in Table 7 of Attachment 4 Budget. The net present value of these costs as calculated in Table 19 is $1,425,313.15. The initial costs are expected to occur over a four year period from 2013 to 2016 as the installations occur. These initial costs are identical to those included in Budget Table 7. All implementation and administrative costs of the program are included in Table 7 Category (a), and there are no costs of the program after the installations are complete. The present value costs are based on an application of a 6.0% annual discount factor to all costs occurring in years beyond 2012.
If the project includes a suite of projects, describe the relationship of each project to the overall projects costs and to the overall water supply benefits of the entire project.
The project does not include a suite of projects.
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Table 15 – Annual Benefit(All benefits in 2012 dollars)
Project: Comprehensive Landscape Water Use Efficiency Project
(a) / (b) / (c) / (d) / (e) / (f) / (g) / (h) / (i) / (j)
Year / Type of Benefit / Measure of Benefit
(Units) / Without Project / With Project / Change Resulting from Project
(e) – (d) / Unit $ Value (1) / Annual $ Value (1)
(f) x (g) / Discount Factor (1) / Discounted Benefits (1)
(h) x (i)
2012 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 0.00 / 0.00 / $794.00 / $0.00 / 1.000 / $0.00
2013 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 41.35 / 41.35 / $847.00 / $35,023.45 / 0.943 / $33,027.11
2014 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 336.55 / 336.55 / $890.00 / $299,529.50 / 0.890 / $266,581.26
2015 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 656.25 / 656.25 / $920.00 / $603,750.00 / 0.840 / $507,150.00
2016 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 887.00 / 887.00 / $970.00 / $860,390.00 / 0.792 / $681,428.88
2017 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 887.00 / 887.00 / $1,023.00 / $907,401.00 / 0.742 / $673,291.54
2018 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 887.00 / 887.00 / $1,079.00 / $957,073.00 / 0.705 / $674,736.47
2019 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 887.00 / 887.00 / $1,146.00 / $1,016,502.00 / 0.665 / $675,973.83
2020 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 887.00 / 887.00 / $1,214.00 / $1,076,818.00 / 0.627 / $675,164.89
2021 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 887.00 / 887.00 / $1,274.70 / $1,130,658.90 / 0.592 / $669,350.07
2022 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 887.00 / 887.00 / $1,338.44 / $1,187,191.85 / 0.558 / $662,453.05
2023 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 845.65 / 845.65 / $1,405.36 / $1,188,439.94 / 0.527 / $626,307.85
2024 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 550.45 / 550.45 / $1,475.62 / $812,257.55 / 0.497 / $403,692.00
2025 / Water Savings / acre-foot / 0 / 230.75 / 230.75 / $1,549.41 / $357,525.39 / 0.469 / $167,679.41
Total Present Value of Discounted Benefits Based on Unit Value
(Sum of the values in Column (j) for all Benefits shown in table) / $6,716,836.35
Table 19 – Annual Costs of Project
(All costs in 2012 Dollars)
Project: Comprehensive Landscape Water Use Efficiency Project
Initial Costs
Grand Total Cost from Table 7
(row (i), column (d)) / Adjusted Grant Total Cost(1) / Annual Costs (2) / Discounting Calculations
Admin / Operation / Maintenance / Replacement / Other / Total Costs
(a) +…+ (g) / Discount Factor / Discounted Project Costs
(h) x (i)
Year / (a) / (b) / (c) / (d) / (e) / (f) / (g) / (h) / (i) / (j)
2012 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 1.000 / $ -
2013 / $166,081.70 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $166,081.70 / 0.943 / $ 156,615.04
2014 / $581,285.95 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $581,285.95 / 0.890 / $ 517,344.50
2015 / $581,285.95 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $581,285.95 / 0.840 / $ 488,280.20
2016 / $332,163.40 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $332,163.40 / 0.792 / $ 263,073.41
2017 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 0.742 / $ -
2018 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 0.705 / $ -
2019 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 0.665 / $ -
2020 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 0.627 / $ -
2021 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 0.592 / $ -
2022 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 0.558 / $ -
2023 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 0.527 / $ -
2024 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 0.497 / $ -
2025 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00 / 0.469 / $ -
Total Present Value of Discounted Costs (Sum of column (j))
Transfer to Table 20, column (c), Proposal Benefits and Costs Summaries / $ 1,425,313.15
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