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and recreation fadlitios (Figure 2). These corridors wiH be designed to eerve as wildVe 

 movement conMora and wil Indude features to capture stofmwater runofT for groundwater 

 rachargo. 



6) Bradcsh Groundwater Oesafination - This year the Distiict initiated design and 

 construction activities for a desaiinization plant to treat contaminated water from the Menifee 

 Groundwater Basin. This tschnology wiB not onV treat saiina groundwater basins but wOl allow 

 EMWD to address the salt balance issue associated with ttie use of reclaimed water. Over the 

 next 10 years, ttie District plans to construct up to 3 desalirutfian facilitiBS to treat saline 

 groundvyater which presently threatens to contaminate adjacent, usabis groundwater supplies. 

 These plants wiy produce up to 12,000 AF/yr by 2005. 



IMPACT OF ENDANGERED SPECIES 



By late 1992, the Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protected 1,277 plant and animal 

 spades with 1 13 of those found in CalSomia. These protections have resulted in the designation 

 of approximately 144,000 acres, or more than 40 percent of EMWD's sen/ice area as sertsKK^e 

 habitat (Note: The 144,000 acree indudes 54,000 acres of coastal sage scnjb habitat type, 

 which is crttieal to protecting the Caltfomia Gnatcatcher.) With tha recant addition of the 

 Calfomia Orcutt Gtoass artd the expected listing of the San Jacinto Saltbush, this total is expected 

 to bicrease even mora. 



