Yorba Linda Fire Update

Two fire hydrants were repaired and one was replaced following the Freeway Complex Fire. (Reference Assessment Report, Chapter 10, paragraph 2.)

The reservoir water levels are shown in graph form for each reservoir for Friday, November 14th, Saturday November 15th and Sunday, November 16th. To get to these graphs click this link.

The District is currently soliciting construction bids for the Hidden Hills Reservoir Project. The bid due date is currently scheduled for February 24, 2009.

The current General Manager is a Civil Engineer registered in the State of California.

Both the General Manager and the Engineering Manager are Registered Civil Engineers with schooling and decades of combined experience in hydraulics. The District also consults on a regular basis with engineering firms that have many experienced and Registered Professional Engineers on staff.

Over 90% of the City of Yorba Linda is served by YLWD. Click on the link below to see the District’s service area with city boundaries. The thin blue and magenta strip in the middle of YLWD’s Water Service Area shown on this map is the only area in the City of Yorba Linda that YLWD does not serve water to. This area is referred to as the Locke Ranch and is served by a private water purveyor, the Golden State Water Company. YLWD does provide sewer service in the Locke Ranch area. http://www.ylwd.com/images/maps/button-CityBdry.gif

The District sold a total of $17M in bonds for Improvement District No 2. (ID No. 2), which includes the Hidden Hills area and all the commercial and residential developments east of Hidden Hills Road and north of La Palma Avenue to the eastern boundary of the City of Yorba Linda. These bonds were issued as follows: 1979 Series A - $1M, 1984 Series B - $10M and 1990 Series C - $6M. The money spent to date has purchased a prorata share of a 30 cubic feet per second (13,500 gallons per minute or gpm) water supply connection with Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Allen McColloch Transmission Pipeline supplying water to that turn out from the Robert B. Deimer Filtration Plant; miles of transmission pipelines conveying water to and throughout ID No. 2; four existing reservoirs with combined capacity of 12.6 million gallons; four existing booster pump stations with combined capacity of 10,250 gpm and two shallow groundwater wells The debt service for these bonds was retired in May 2005 and there has have been no taxes assessed for these purposes in ID No. 2 since. The 2007-2012 Five Year Plan of Capital Improvements identified projects that would spend down the $9M+ balance in the ID No. 2 bond fund balance for projects that will improve service to the area. These projects include the Hidden Hills Reservoir and Santiago Booster Pump Station Improvements, transmission pipeline improvements, upgrades to another supply connection and portions of the groundwater production and transmission system improvements.

Construction of the Hidden Hills Reservoir is currently estimated to begin by Summer 2009 with completion by year end 2010. Final rights of way, permitting and environmental approvals are still pending but are expected to be approved or authorized in time to award a construction contract to meet this schedule.

Yes. Fire hydrant maintenance records are kept at the District’s Operations and Maintenance Facilities. (Reference Assessment Report, Chapter 10, paragraph 1 for the preventative maintenance program.)

The District maintains records including Board of Directors agendas and minutes documenting action items and approvals on the business of the District.

The District’s 2005 Water Master Plan establishes a system performance objective to provide a minimum of 40 psi during average day, maximum day and peak hour demands throughout the District’s service area. The minimum residual pressure for fire flow conditions is set at 20 psi for the flowing hydrant. The fire flow requirements are established by local and state adopted fire codes and are determined for each subdivision, land development and lot improvement by land use densities, structure type, size and distance from an approved water source. The water system serving Yorba Linda, like the vast majority of residential community water systems, is not designed to fight wildland fires and is not designed to provide flow to all fire hydrants and all customers simultaneously.

This question is answered in the Assessment Report.

This question is answered in the Assessment Report.

This question is answered in the Assessment Report.

Typically, YLWD booster pump stations have three or four pumps each.

The booster pump stations typically have dual energy, that is, one or more electric pumps and one or more natural gas driven pumps. See the Assessment Report for what happened during the fire at the Santiago Booster Pump Station.

This question is answered in the Assessment Report.

This question is answered in the Assessment Report.