Item 2. Properties
Item 2. Properties
The properties of SJWC consist of a unified water production system located in the County of Santa Clara in the State of California. In general, the property is comprised of franchise rights, water rights, necessary rights-of-way, approximately 6,400 acres of land held in fee (which is primarily non-developable watershed), impounding reservoirs with a capacity of approximately 2.256 billion gallons, 2,491 miles of transmission and distribution mains, distribution storage of approximately 194 million gallons, wells, boosting facilities, diversions, surface water treatment plants, equipment, office buildings and other property necessary to provide water service to its customers.
SJWC maintains all of its properties in good operating condition in accordance with customary practice for a water utility. SJWC’s groundwater pumping stations have a production capacity of approximately 264 million gallons per day and the present capacity for taking purchased water is approximately 84 million gallons per day. The surface water collection system has a physical delivery capacity of approximately 35 million gallons per day. During 2022, a maximum and average of 120 million gallons and 92 million gallons of water per day, respectively, were delivered to the system.
The properties of CTWS consist of land, easements, rights (including water rights), buildings, reservoirs with a capacity of approximately 9.4 billion gallons, standpipes, dams, wells, supply lines, water treatment plants, pumping plants, 2,317 miles of transmission and distribution mains and other facilities and equipment used for the collection, purification, storage and distribution of water throughout Connecticut and Maine. In certain cases, Connecticut Water and Maine Water are or may be a party to limited contractual arrangements for the provision of water supply from neighboring utilities.
Sources of water supply owned, maintained and operated by CTWS include 25 surface water reservoirs and 108 well fields. In addition, Connecticut Water and Maine Water have agreements with various neighboring water utilities to provide water, at negotiated rates, to our water systems. Collectively, these sources have the capacity to deliver approximately 84 million gallons of potable water daily to the 27 major operating systems. CTWS also owns, maintains and operates 50 small, non-interconnected satellite and consecutive water systems, that combined, have the ability to deliver about 3.5 million gallons of additional water per day to their respective systems. CTWS’s 30 water treatment plants have a combined treatment capacity of approximately 52 million gallons per day. In addition, CTWS owns and operates one wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 780,000 gallons per day.
SJWTX maintains a service area that covers approximately 268 square miles located in the southern region of the Texas hill country in Bandera, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall, Medina and Travis counties. The majority of the service area surrounds an 8,200 surface acre reservoir, Canyon Lake. SJWTX production wells have the ability to pump a combined 5.8 billion gallons annually. SJWTX has contracts for 2 billion gallons of untreated surface water and 235 million gallons of treated surface water from the GBRA annually, and 81 million gallons of treated surface water from LCRA. SJWTX owns and operates three surface water treatment plants with a combined production capacity of 9 million gallons per day. SJWTX has 764 miles of transmission and distribution mains and maintains 78 storage tanks with a total storage capacity of 12.4 million gallons. SJWTX owns and operates four wastewater treatment plants with a combined capacity of 293,500 gallons per day.
Water Utility Services hold all of its principal properties in fee simple, subject to current tax and assessment liens, rights-of-way, easements, and certain minor defects in title which do not materially affect their use. A substantial portion of treatment, storage and distribution properties owned by Maine Water are subject to liens of mortgage or indentures that secure bonds, notes and other evidences of long-term indebtedness.
As of December 31, 2022, SJW Land Company and Chester Realty, Inc. own approximately 101 acres of property in the State of California, 55 acres of property in the State of Tennessee and 23 acres of property in State of Connecticut.
The following table is a summary of SJW Land Company and Chester Realty, Inc. properties described previously:
% for Year Ended
December 31, 2022
of Real Estate Services
Description Location Acreage Square Footage Revenue Expense
Warehouse building Knoxville, Tennessee 30 361,500 52 % 42 %
Commercial building Knoxville, Tennessee 15 135,000 47 % 57 %
Undeveloped land and parking lot Knoxville, Tennessee 10 N/A N/A N/A
Undeveloped land San Jose, CA 101 N/A N/A N/A
Commercial building Clinton, CT 22 9,000 1 % 1 %
Commercial building Guilford, CT 1 1,300 — % — %
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