SBECRP Water Replenishment District Media Kit

GOAL: Promote groundwater stewardship to residents through city communication channels. Materials stored in this media kit provide information to protect groundwater resources and contamination prevention. To satisfy the Outreach requirements, cities need to complete:

At least 1 article in an e-blast/newsletter

3 other promotions (can be a mix of social media posts, mailers, WRD materials shared at events)

The items below are the only media items that will earn your city points for the partner awards — you may not design your own posts/articles/etc. The media kit items may be updated throughout the program to reflect new WRD programs.

The Water Replenishment District (WRD) has been the steward of groundwater for southern Los Angeles County since 1959. Serving a region of 43 cities and nearly 4 million people, WRD manages two of the nation’s most utilized urban groundwater basins – the Central and West Coast Basins – which provide nearly 50% of the drinking water to WRD communities. The map above highlights WRD facilities. These initiatives reduce WRD’s region’s dependence on imported water.

Check out WRD’s “Securing our Water Future” video here.

ARTICLES FOR E-BLAST/NEWSLETTER

Groundwater 101

Groundwater has always played an integral role in the water supply for the LA region and is poised to play a primary role in drought resiliency. Understanding the region’s groundwater journey reveals how this critical resource will secure the LA Basin’s water security for decades to come.

WRD ensures enough water finds its way back into the ground to keep our basins healthy. To get the job done, WRD works with the LA County Department of Public Works who own and operate two important water infrastructure systems: the spreading grounds and the seawater barrier injection wells.

Through surface spreading and freshwater injection, WRD is able to keep the Central and West Coast Basins filled for groundwater pumpers such as utilities and municipalities to use for their residential customers. WRD is also responsible for monitoring groundwater quality through a robust monitoring network.

Learn more about groundwater and WRD here.

Brackish Groundwater Reclamation Program

The Water Replenishment District’s Brackish Groundwater Reclamation Program (BGRP) seeks to reclaim the historical brackish water plume in the West Coast Groundwater Basin and create a new local drinking water supply.

The Program will be comprised of multiple capital projects to desalt the brackish water plume. A critical step in achieving the objectives of BGRP is to expand WRD’s Torrance Groundwater Desalter facility. The expanded desalter facility will use new groundwater extraction wells, desalination, and state-of-the-art technology to purify the salty water and use it for distribution through local municipal drinking water systems. The Torrance Groundwater Desalter Expansion Project (TGDE) will remove the salts from the water and will provide up to 7,100 acre-feet per year of additional high-quality drinking water to local water customers.

The removal of salty groundwater will in turn create available groundwater storage capacity for excess local freshwater and recycled water. Local water providers will be able to store surplus water for use during dry years—thus creating drought resiliency for generations to come.

Learn more about the program here.

WIN 4 ALL

The Water Replenishment District’s Water Independence Now for All – The 2040 Plan for Regional Water Independence (WIN 4 ALL) program is an expansion of the successful WRD Water Independence Now (WIN) initiative which took place from 2004 – 2019. WIN 4 ALL seeks to identify and partner with regional water stakeholders with the aim of building up reliance on locally sustainable groundwater supplies and decreasing the Los Angeles Basin’s dependence on imported water by 2040.

WRD’s WIN 4 ALL program includes a suite of programs and projects that address current barriers to using, storing, and replenishing groundwater in the West Coast and Central Basins.

Learn more here.