Orange County Water District OCWD

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• Orange County Water District (OCWD)

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Orange County Water District

• Formed by an Act of the California Legislature on
  June 14, 1933.
• The district conserves surface flows of the Santa
  Ana River for groundwater basin replenishment.
• OCWD protects Orange Countys rights to the
  natural flows of the Santa Ana River.
• Developed renewable water supplies for
  groundwater basin replenishment and repelling
  saltwater intrusion.

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Orange County Water District
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Orange County Water District

• Aquired and constructed spreading grounds from
  the 1930s to 1980s to enhance underground basin
  replenishment.
• Cooperates with Orange County Flood Control
  District and Army Corp of Engineers in managing
  discharges from Prado Dam.
• Constructed rubber dams to improve the diversion
  of surface flows into spreading grounds without
  diminishing the flood capacity of the Santa Ana
  River.

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Orange County Water District

• Innovative design of Basin Cleaning vehicles for
  removal of fine-grained sediment deposits from
  the bottom of deep basins without basin
  dewatering.
• Injection of reclaimed water underground to
  establish barriers to seawater intrusion and
  enable basin overdraft during extreme drought
  conditions over watersheds of imported water
  sources.

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Orange County Water District

• The Orange County Water District was designated
  as an Orange County Historical Civil Engineering
  Landmark. The plaque is planned to be installed
  in Summer 2007.