Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) is the primary water resource agency for Placer County, California, with a broad range of responsibilities including water resource planning and management, retail and wholesale supply of drinking water and irrigation water, and production of hydroelectric energy. Water: PCWA is the largest water purveyor in the county, serving more than 41,000 retail treated water customers in its Western Water System, which includes the original Zone 1 and extends east from Auburn to the communities of Applegate, Colfax, and Alta. PCWA continues to provide treated water on a wholesale basis to the City of Lincoln – a service it has also extended to California American Water Company for delivery west of Roseville, and to several historic community systems in the Loomis Basin. In addition, PCWA supplies water from its MFP to the City of Roseville and San Juan Water District, which operate their own treatment facilities. And PCWA continues to operate 170 miles of canals, serving irrigation water for pastures, orchards, rice fields, farms, ranches, golf courses, and landscaping – continuing the heritage of Placer County’s historic water delivery. Energy: PCWA’s MFP is the eighth largest public power project in California. It has five interconnected hydroelectric power plants, two major storage reservoirs (French Meadows and Hell Hole) and twenty-four miles of tunnels. The MFP can generate, at peak power, 224 megawatts.