After a public hearing, the City Council on May 11 unanimously approved the Seal Beach 2025 Urban Water Management Plan and the 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan. The plans were state-mandated. … California law requires urban water suppliers that serve more than 3,000 customers—or supply more than 3,000 acre-feet of water a year—has to submit an Urban Water Management Plan to the California Department of Water Resources every five years. … “Imported supplies are obtained through MWDOC, a member agency of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Metropolitan), while local groundwater is extracted from the Orange County Groundwater Basin, which is managed and replenished by the Orange County Water District (OCWD),” [Public Works Director Iris] Lee wrote.