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20 <br />OWASA ORANGE WATER & SEWER AUTHORITY <br />Quality Service Since 1977 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Ed Kerwin <br />FROM: Ed Holland <br />DATE: October 15, 1998. <br />SUBJECT: Potential Recreational Uses of OWASA Property <br />Background <br />During the Past yer, Board members Barry Jacobs and Bill Strom have attended <br />meetings of Orange County's Joint Master Recreation and Parks Plan Work Group <br />charged with updating the County's Recreation and Parks Master Plan. One part of that' <br />work is an inventory of all public and semi-public land and recreational assets in Orange <br />County. <br />During the August 27, 1998 Board of Directors meeting, Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Strom <br />submitted a list of questions about possible recreational uses of OWASA's land holdings. <br />This was referred to the Board's Natural Resources and Technical Systems (NRTS) <br />Committee, which reviewed information provided by staff and discussed the attendant <br />issues during three subsequent meetings. This memorandum and attachments attempt to <br />summarize the NRTS Committee consensus that emerged through those discussions. <br />The attached map shows the location of all OWASA -owned properties in Orange County; <br />Table 1 provides additional details; and Table 2 presents the NRTS Committee's _ <br />evaluation of the acceptability of different recreational uses of those properties: Uses _ <br />listed iif Table 2 were compiled from documents of the Orange County Work Group. <br />OWASA Interests <br />The NRTS Committee agreed that alternative uses should be- considered in terms of <br />OWASA's central mission of providing "an adequate supply of high quality drinking <br />water and a complementary sewer service. " Activities or uses that might compromise <br />OWASA's utility function should be discouraged. <br />For example, certain uses, such as tennis, racquetball, or basketball courts, would be <br />incompatible with OWASA's operational activities within sewer easements or rights -of- <br />way, while other uses, such as hiking trails, might be acceptable. Hiking trails would not, <br />however, be desirable near the Cane Creek Reservoir where public access to the shoreline <br />represents a water quality risk contrary to OWASA's water supply mission. <br />