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Current Conditions <br />Southern California's two main sources of imported water - the Colorado River Basin and Northern <br />California - continue to face dry conditions. Heading into a second consecutive dry year, the Northern <br />Sierra snowpack was only 63% of average (as of April) in 2021, continuing the trend of mostly drought <br />conditions in the past decade for the state of California. <br />Water supply availability for the Calleguas service area (which includes the Conejo Recreation and Park <br />District) will not be impacted in 2021. Prudent planning and ratepayer investments have built a critical <br />drought buffer for Southern California. The most recent 2012-2ol6 drought spurred a massive investment <br />in conservation programs and turf removal. Over $350 million was devoted to turf removal rebates during <br />that period with approximately 165 million square feet of lawn removed. It is also noteworthy to recall that <br />the State imposed -for the first time in California history -emergency drought regulations and community <br />specific water conservation targets. Record breaking storms in 2017 pulled most of California out of <br />drought and significantly improved imported water Conditions. Dry year imported water storage reserves <br />registered their highest level in history at 3.2 million acre-feet at the end of zozo (and was at 2.6 million <br />acre-feet at the end of September zo21) for the Metropolitan Region for Southern California. <br />2 October 2021 <br />