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Two back-to-back meetings on Thursday, Oct. 30, could officially launch San Francisco’s $4.3 billion project to fix the aging system that provides Sierra water to 2.4 million people in four Bay Area counties — including San Mateo.
The San Francisco Planning Commission will consider — and perhaps adopt — the Final Program Environmental Impact Report (FPEIR) on Oct. 30 at 1:30 p.m. in Room 400 of San Francisco City Hall, Grove and Polk streets.
If the commission approves the report, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will hold a special hearing at 5 p.m. in Room 263 of City Hall to approve a new phased version of its water supply improvement program.
The massive program consists of 37 regional projects to fix the deteriorating and seismically vulnerable system that brings 265 million gallons a day of water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park across five earthquake faults to faucets in San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Target date for completion is 2014.
The new variant in the plan addresses a controversy surrounding a proposal to withdraw up to 25 million gallons per day from the Tuolumne River to meet projected Bay Area water demand of 300 million gallons per day by 2030.
The proposed variant would hold consumption to 265 million gallons per day until an interim date of 2018, when the need for water from the Tuolumne could be re-evaluated. Increases in demand would be met through conservation, recycling and groundwater.
For more information, call 415-554-3297 or go to SFWater.org.
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