SPECIAL FEATURES OF MEMBER AGENCY

Long Beach joined Metropolitan as one of its original cities in 1931. In addition to delivering water through 960 miles of water mains, with 6,717 fire hydrants, 30 water wells and 35 storage tanks (3.3 MG each), the Water Department is responsible for the operation, maintenance, repair and improvement of the city's sanitary sewer system - consisting of 760 miles of sewer mains, 15,000 manholes and 28 sewer pump stations.

Also, as of October 1, 1998, the department is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the city's storm sewer system with 200 miles of storm sewer lines, 29 pump stations and 3,766 catch basins.

During the past year more than 1.5 billion gallons of reclaimed water was delivered to various users saving an equal amount of potable water for domestic and commercial use.

In 1999, the Board of Water Commissioners completed agreements with the City of Long Beach and the Water Replenishment District of Southern California for the construction of the Alamitos Seawater Barrier Reclaimed Water Project. This facility is expected to come on line in the summer of 2004, and will replace approximately 3,000 acre-feet of imported water for the seawater barrier with highly treated-reclaimed water.

The construction and filling of a 13,000 acre-foot conjunctive use groundwater storage project was completed in 2005, a joint project between Long Beach and MWD. A second conjuncitve use project which will storage an additional 3,600 acre-feet is currently under construction. This second conjunctive use project between Long Beach and MWD also involves the adjoining City of Lakewood.