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• Efficiencies & Effectiveness: Customers are at the heart of this process. SCV
Water is focused on maintaining the same or higher level of customer service
currently enjoyed by customers.

• Enhanced Water Management: While the Santa Clarita Valley is a relatively tight-
knit community, its water management is fragmented across several separate
providers. The State and local communities are moving towards more integrated
regional water management in order to leverage economies of scale, planning
resources and strategies, and to improve water service delivery. Just as important,
the scale of effective water resources management in the Santa Clarita Valley is
tied to the scale of elements such as the groundwater basin and the surface stream
network, as well as the future regional recycled water system. Each of these spans
more than one agency’s geographic boundary. The watershed connects everyone
in the Santa Clarita Valley and, rather than being a basis for division, should be a
unifying force for managing the water supply. Through SB 634, the Legislature
designed SCV Water to enhance regional water management. That is intended to
result in new sources of water supply (e.g. recycled, groundwater recharge, etc.),
a stronger voice in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., and a locally
representative, but regionally integrated board of directors.

Applicable Requirements under SB 634 for the Plan for Services
Section 29 of the Act requires SCV Water to submit this Plan for Services (Plan) to the
Local Agency Formation Commission of the County of Los Angeles (LAFCO). The Plan
must include information described in Government Code section 56653, if applicable. The
elements required for LAFCO review under Section 29(a) of the Act and where they can
be found in this Plan are presented in the following Table 1-1. For the ease of the reader,
a brief written response to each of the required elements can be found in Appendix B of
this Plan.

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