HomeMy WebLinkAboutC26430 - CVWD - CVMVCDCoachella Valley Water District, the City of Palm Desert,
The Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District
Memorandum of Understanding
I. The purpose of this agreement is to formally document the intention of the
Coachella Valley Water District (District), the City of Palm Desert (City) and the
Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District (CVMVCD), in
cooperation with a mutually agreeable homeowners association, to retrofit a
curbside turf/spray landscape, into an efficient, low water use, attractive
landscape and/or a subsurface drip irrigated turfscape.
2. It is understood by all parties that this agreement funds and executes a "Curbside
Conservation Buffer Demonstration Program" with the goal of eliminating
overspray and runoff to the street.
3. The District will evaluate the water -savings performance of an alternative
efficient water use landscape and irrigation system for one year after installation,
document water savings and calculate a program cost -benefit ratio for use in
program evaluation by the District, the City and CVMVCD.
4. Participating agencies will evaluate the program by determining the amount of
runoff reduction. Sample measurements will be made before and after retrofitting.
Parameters will include flow rates, and accumulated flows down the street gutter.
Water surface area will be measured and/or estimated in affected retention basins.
The number of mosquito abatement treatments will be reported.
5. If the cost -benefit ratio or other factors are deemed favorable to the continuation
of this program on a long term basis, the District, the City and CVMVCD agree to
explore the continuation of the program on an expanded and long term basis.
6. The City agrees to provide approximately cost -share funding to this joint District /
City / CVMVCD project not to exceed $20,000.
7. The CVMVCD agrees to provide measurement and reporting technical assistance
to this joint District / City / CVMVCD project not to exceed a value of
approximately $12,000 as well as cost -share funding up to $5,000.
8. The District agrees to provide cost- share funding contribution to this joint
District / City /CVMVCD not to exceed $29,000. The District will also provide
program coordination, on site technical assistance and data analysis and reporting.
9. The agencies will pay approximately $1.50 per square foot, or 75 percent of the
total cost for the turf/spray conversion. Homeowners will pay approximately
$0.50 per square foot (25 percent of the total cost). It is understood that these
costs are estimates only. Actual amounts may vary.
10. It is anticipated that approximately 1.25 miles of turf/spray averaging five feet in
width can be converted using this funding.
11. Any party to this MOU may terminate its participation in this MOU by giving not
less than (90) calendar days prior written notice of intent to terminate to each of
the partners. In such case, termination by one or more of the parties to this MOU
does not alter the terms or obligations of the other parties to this MOU.
Signed and approved by:
Date: Date:
Steve Robbins Carlos Ortega
General Manager -Chief Engineer City Manager
Coachella Valley Water District City of Palm Desert
Date
Donald E. Gomsi
General Manager
Coachella Valley Mosquito and
Vector Control District