implementing. >> sure. >> and on this city-wide front we have shared three of those lessons learned and also participated in city wide training on cost recovery. and the men and women in our it department at the sfpud developed a photo map, app that is now available to all city departments, to be able to track condition of assets before damage, as well as upon insurance renewals on july 1, and then that is available through the js network as well and we run three trainings with the controllers office and also the city administrator's office to all city departments in the month of august. and as well as shared materials for emergency preparedness and desk manual references and wallet cards so that all departments could use the sfpud templates if they wish the departments to be further prepared. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, todd. >> i just want to add that having visited the command center during the fire i was

impressed with how the staff conducted themselves seven days a week, 24 hours, essentially, shifting shifts and working in the energy and so my hands off to the staff, of the puc and how they monitored it this far and dealt with it and i can't see the improvement that is need to do and you are clear of that and i applaud that as well. >> thank you. >> i want to associate myself with commissioner torres's comments. i too have an opportunity to see how we rolled during that time, and it was nothing less than impressive. and i don't think that the rate payers are a lot and the citizens get an opportunity to see those inner workings and had you had an opportunity to see the command center and the response of the staff and i think that you would have been nothing less than impressed with the out standings efforts. >> commissioners? that is the staff report and the next one is to give an update on the water system

improvement program. >> good afternoon, mr. wade. and good afternoon. >> there is another presentation being loaded and as soon as he is done, i will get started. >> okay. so good afternoon, and director, today's wsip quarterly update covers june

first to june 30, 2014. so i am pleased to report that the over all wsip at the end of the reporting period was 83 percent complete over all that is 81 percent at the regional level and 96.5 percent at the local level. and this pie chart shows that the main activities in the program continue to be in the construction phase with over 2.8 billion dollars in construction, representing 17 projects and we have completed 63 of 83 projects, in the program. and there is only two projects remaining in the preconstruction. and we do have a number of accomplishments to report, and that can show, and that show the continued outstanding progress in the program. and in particular, we have completed the permitting on one of the last projects for the pipeline upgrade and we should proceed on two projects including that project as well as one of the security

integration project and we completed and this is a major milestone, and we completed the project and we expect to have final completing of that project this fall and we also completed the division, pipeline, 3 and 4 cross overs and our safety record does continue to be outstanding, and we are not going to relax for a moment to make sure that that trend continues. and we have completed 163 of 197 system-wide shut downs and our over all program, list continues to come down. and with every shut down that is completed. and we have completed a level of service, goals on 33 of 44 projects, which, specific level of service goals and so we continue to inch towards those over all program level of the goals with the other projects that are completed. and we did publish a staff

transition plan that shows how the staffing will come down over the next few years to make sure that we are right sizing the program as we continue to contract but we do have 300 full time employees working in the program and that will come down quickly. and we celebrated last but not least, the ten year milestone in april at the reservoir. now in terms of the program cost, i am pleased to report that our cost to completing is forecast to be the same as our current approved budget that you approved back in april. and our 4.765 billion dollars. and with the old program continues to also be on schedule. and with over all completing of may, 2019. and now just as a reminder i think that this really helps to remind us of what we are trying to accomplish and that is to have these life line across the san francisco bay, and that

transsects the three major faults in the bay, these blue are completed and the green are the ones that we still have in progress, and you can see that there is really only a handful and of those, only the peninusla pipeline, upgrade project will not be in service by the end of this year and so that, that seismic life line, across the bay will be complete and of course we have other projects for storage and treatment, that will continue, but i think that that is significant to mention. >> and in terms of preconstruction, we do have the creek recapture project that continues, in the injury report phase and we do expect to start work on the environmental impact report this fall. and the pipeline seismic upgrade, i mentioned, went to most of the construction and so that is in construction now and then, today, later in the meeting, we will be presenting

the regional storage and recovery project for approval and we did receive, certification of it last week and we looked forward and anticipate your approval so that we can advertise for bids in september. >> now, moving on to... >> please? >> on that, on that last point. >> yes. >> you will, discuss, how we will be in compliance, if senate bill, 1168 is passed, by the legislature. >> yeah. >> and it will be in that discussion. >> we are going to address that when you take up the regional ground wars. >> he is just talking on the project. and we have an item to approve that. >> in his remarks he said that he is going to present something on that. >> he will later >> i will present the project and address the questions. don't get nervous, i am just asking. >> thank you. >> so just moving on to

construction, please do. >> okay. >> just, i just want to highlight a few of the major construction projects. >> highlight the construction project, please. >> thank you. >> so, start out with the coverage in the placement project and i am happy to report that project is making outstanding progress and we celebrated 5 million yards of total escalation on the project and just last month, and that is more than 75 percent of the he is ka vasing that is required prior to con conducting a new dam, and this photo shows the cleaning of the foundation, prior to receiving concrete and since that time we have had about 20,000 cubic yards poured. and so they are starting to take shape and i also want to mention that we finalized negotiations for the contractor for the major schedule and cost and impacts associated with the lower land slide, amount of slide b, that i reported

earlier, and those negotiations were successful, and then the removal of those materials is progressing well. and in fact, it is proceeding on schedule, according to planned. >> moving to the tunnel project. and i just want to say that the gliding of the space between a pipe and the rough he is excavation is complete. and the interior of the pipe is mobilized and they started that work and we do expect that work to be done this fall and we expect to be able to disinfect and put that tunnel into service this fall. >> and simply, at the tunnel, the contractor recently completed the lining and it is actually the same contract that has moved from the tunnel over to the tunnel and that work is complete. and we are monitoring the schedule closely to make sure that we can actually disinfect

both tunnels and i want to give credit to the water and supply division who came up with a plan to disenfekt the tunnels at the same time that will save the cost and time and be able to save the water and put it back in the system so we are looking forward to those tunnels going into service this fall, which will allow us to have a step change in terms of needing this level of service goals for the program. >> finally, moving to the seismic upgrade of the pipeline, three and four at the high ward fall, and again, this project is going very well, and this photo shows the rough slab on the fault structure that has been poured and so the pipeline is now not visible but that pipeline is complete and the ball joints and that custom slip joint have been installed. and everything has been tested, pressure tested. and the pipeline is actually now in service. which is an outstanding accomplishment, and what we are excited about is that if that

earthquake occurred, that brought 6 and a half feet of the displacement on the fault we will actually be able to utilize that line to supply the water to the customers. >> and i would like to end with the tracy water treatment plant long term improvements and we are making very good progress on this project as well. there is only one, remaining shut down schedule for this fall. and there is a lot of work to do in the contractors are working long hours to get the work done, but we do expect to be able to deliver on the required, 140 million gallons per day at the end of this year, after that shut down is complete and we would anticipate participation there after. and that concludes my report and i would be happy to take any questions. >> commissioners? >> yes. >> what is that flying saucer machine? >> in the last slide? >> that is a butterfly valve that is one of the pipelines at

the treatment plant. >> it opens and closes for flow. >> okay, >> correct. >> thank you. >> mr. wade, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> very informative. >> so, the next report that i have the water supply out look, and mr. ritchie will present that. >> all right. >> okay the team is finished with the work. steve r. cri. hie, the direct for water and i will have the updates, i will move into those and i have skipped a couple of these slides that we have seen before to cut right to the chase and

this is the slide showing the reservoirs and as you note the hetch hetch is 90 percent low, and it has been coming down as the summer progressed and there is no inflow and that will decrease until the following and into the next wet season that we get. we expect to be around october first at about 250,000 acres in the reservoir, on that standard operating procedure for this kind of year, again the water bank number is low, 37 percent and it is low but that number has been coming up and it is actually come up about 13,000 acre feet as we have steadily put the water into that from the cherry reservoir side and because we want to replenish the water, so that it can come in this year, the total system storage is 61 and a half percent right now. and so, these numbers are you know going to be steadily changing as we get into the fall and as we look forward to

what kind of precipitation that we are going to be getting in september, we will come to the commission with an out look for the future of how we expect to operate the system. through the next year, and potentially the years after that if it continues to be dry. and on the precipitation front, the study now after the late july storms and again we have reached the 2007 level, of precipitation for the side, and about 62 percent of normal which is a far cry from where we were in january and still not a great year but it is definitely, we have gotten more precipitation this year than i was expecting a while back. >> here is the really good news slide and the total deliveries is compared to 10 percent reduction level and we have tried to keep the demand below that black line and we were ahead tf and now we have pretty steadily over the last eleven weeks been very steady just below the line and we are

really catching up on savings in the system and so our goal of needing ten percent reduction system wide is within reach. and this is our cumulative savings here in the green shows a steady climb up. what we want to do in the case of this slide, we want to be above the black dash line that means that we are saving more water than we have to. >> that has been a lot steeper than the black line. hopefully by labor day we will have crossed that line and receiving the ten percent reduction for the year. just to remind folks in san francisco that we are at 49, and 88 gallons per capita, or the gross per capita use and then also, in the wholesale customers complied with the mandate for 20 percent reduction by 2020. this is the point that we made yesterday, when we met with the

governor's drought water system, along with the representatives from the bay area and the water agencies that one of the things that we are proud of, is the amount of water that we have saved already and we continue to save more on top of that. and, we actually showed this slide a couple of years ago, but it is good to remind us, that relative to other larger, agencies around the state, san francisco, is again, saving substantially more water, and have gotten already to the target reduction for the 20 percent reduction by 2020. >> our average campaign continues. and we have done a lot of billboards, and muni cards, and we actually are working on billboards out in the wholesale area with the wholesale customer to get the message out there on conservation as well and that has been successful and i think that is part of the indication why the demand has been reduced. one of the key things that we are doing now and have been for

a while is working with the city departments consistent with the mayor's february 10th directive, and working with the rec and park and public works and some of the largest ones, through the data and developing with the data sharing plans and in order to view in the conservation reports that were submitted by most of the city departments, august first is directed by the mayor. and on the quick review of those so far, and there have been about 3 to 4,000 that need to be replaced and we will be working with the departments to determine the most efficient way to get them replaced, taking advantage of the different programs that we have to offer. we have also applied for the grant funds from the state to augment to install the toilets in the city departments and we will be looking at those plans, in two to three weeks and we will have a clear plan going forward so that by the end of 2015, you know, replacing substantial number of those fikt turs and i think that is a

real big step forward for us. >> and the last slide that i have at this point, is on what in one picture looks like... but it looks like a new tool that we have available for us and it went backwards. this is data that comes to or out of our automated meter structure system. what you see here, every one of those blue lines with the little tag at the top, is a daily read from the jones street tank, a storage tank in the water supply system and on the left-hand, this is over the last three months, on the left-hand side, you see, those bars are constantly at a level of 400,000 gallons per day and so the system was using and demanding, 400,000 gallons per day which is not good news for a system, and that is generally in the waste and that means that we are losing water out of that system and so we worked with folks, trying to target

the leak detection techniques and i will get it right. and by about, mid june, we were able to detect a large leak in the system and get it repaired and so you see there, about the middle of that table, the demand dropped substantially and this is something that we could not have seen with our old manual reads where you read the meters once every two months, this is because we are getting the daily data so that we can actually see the results of our actions and we cut off that leak and reduce the demand by 300,000 gallons a day, and we have not observed that leak, because it actually was shooting out of the system directly into a storm drain and going into the waste water system and so it was not expressing itself with a sinkhole or something like that and then for the system really is working, you see a couple of spikes there. one was a main break that we had and one day down on bryant street and so we have a spike in use and so we can now tell that there are spikes in use related to various activities and the first one was a main break and the second one was

actually last week at the foot of street there was a call on the system and the point of this slide is a, we found a significant leak and fixed it, but b, we are now having more and more tools in place that allow us to actually understand what is going on in the system and take action about them and so that is one of the good things about the automated water meter program and i think that we will start to see taken advantage of more and more as the time progresses and so that is the summary of where we are at this point. >> commissioner? >> the recent problems that my old home town has been facing in los angeles, have we done a comparative model of what we can learn from what they are doing here. >> we actually talked with them, quite regularly, and through, a california urban water agencies and the american ter works association and many forums, you know we saw some of the results and we saw the definite results of the main break and also the system and the issues that they have with it and there are some

more, situations in our system where we have the weak spots and that we don't get a chance to test them because we can't take this system off line. and so we see them, express themselves with big results. so we talked to them and others regularly about what are the best tools that we can use, one of the things that we actually have been talking a lot with the other folks about is using new and different types of materials, for pipe replacement. and another one is leak protection, how do you utilize, an automated to the best ability? and those topics that are commonly discussed as ways that we can all get better into the future. >> and so, as two cities, coordinate with each other in terms of updates. >> yes. >> because, the water that was lost in that main break at ucla was equal to a day's use of consumption in san francisco county. >> about a third of the use in one shot there. and we were looking at all breaks and i think that we have

a break in south san francisco, november a few years ago that might have been comparable with that one, but that one was just right there. >> we are on top of it. >> as on top of it as you can get and we will actually have a report on the pipeline assessment program at the next meeting so that we can talk about that. >> thank you. >> commissioner vietor >> just a question about this precipitation graph and if there is any other data that you have been learning as you plot out these graphs around precipitation, whether it is starting to come later, during the year, because something that you said around, you know, you are much more pleased that what you were thinking was going to happen in january, is not happening. because there has been additional rain fall and one thing that says to me is that there is more and there is later rain fall happening during the year. and that that might have applications for the water banking and when we do the projections and our storage. and so, i guess that my

question is, is, can we tell, either from this chart, or are you tracking whether our rain fall is starting indeed to come later in the year? and what are the implications for our water banking or for our, you know, planning and forecasting of the water use. >> yeah, one of the things that we see is that every year is different and if you can pull up the slide again and you pull back up the precipitation slide. and that each one of these years, has you know, bumped the different times, and some years it is earlier and some years it is early, and some years it is late and some years it does not materialize and some years it is overwhelming. when you look at the collective record, it is a broad swath around that median. and this is the kind of data that we frankly need to keep on collecting on a routine basis so that we can start to look and see if there are longer term trends and in this case, 2014, we just caught up with 2007. those were both within the last few years, you know, not too

bad and they were in there and 2010, which it does not show here which was a big year, we had a very big year in there. and it was constant throughout the year and there was no, and there were no particular ups and downs, it was just a steady flow and so early to draw conclusions on this but this is something that we will continue to look at and one of the things of a task that we have under way is working with a number of climate specialists to try to take the global change models and bring them down to the regional level, and directly to the local level for operations and that is work that should begin late they are year and hopefully within a year so that we can have results of that, to that and it might start to shed light on how we should potentially change the operations in the future, and each year is different. and looking at this year, and i will speak for margaret, and myself, both in january, when we saw how low things were, we were, we were frightened.

and that was extremely low. and i started to ask, what if it does not rain again? and the people laughed. nervously, because it is always rained and this year was no different, and it did, rain, but that does not mean that it is going to rain next year. >> that is the challenge of operating, is you can try to conclude as mostly as what you do is operate very conservatively to make sure that you can make it through each successive year and why we chart out at least three years out. >> vice president caen? >> mr. ritchie could you comment on the fact that bottlers are using the water and there seems to be no regard in terms of cutting back? >> that is something that we as a wholesaler, sale water to the retail customers and they in turn, sell it to their customer and that is one of the things that we can call for a

reduction in the system and they, you know, need to make those reduction and they have made those reductions and how they make them and we leave it entirely to our wholesale customers. >> okay. >> thank you. >> okay. >> that concludes the general manager's report. >> thank you. >> any further conversation? >> seeing none, i will call for public comment on the general manager's report, i have no speaker cards, is there any public comment? >> reports? >> seeing number, public comment is now closed. madam secretary, i would like to callen item out of order so long as there is no objection from my colleagues, i would like to move to item ten

>> could you call item ten? >>authorize the general manager to impose mandatory restrictions, as required pursuant to the state water resources control board's emergency regulations, on outdoor irrigation by reducing all outdoor irrigation of ornamental landscapes or turf with potable water by retail customers by at least 10%; and presentation and discussion of proposed excessive use charges applicable to the approximately 1600 retail potable water irrigation accounts, for commission action at the august 26, 2014 meeting. >> >> and i would like to note that in your packets there were two resolutions for this item, and the first resolution was the correct version and it included an additional language on the third further resolve clause on page 5. after charter section, 9.118. and the addition of the wording along with the approval of the appearing of the far greater irrigaters. >> i think that is for the next item. >> i am sorry. >> forgive me. >> ignore, what i just said. >> ignore what i just said.

>> dually noted. >> thank you. >> i was scared. >> i was wondering. >> the assistant general manager for water again and now we are talking about the proposed implementation of the new state water board regulations if i could have the slides please? >> and in terms of an overview, we are going to be talking about what the state water resources control board adopted on july, 15 and was approved by the oa, and the office of the administrative law and our implementation of those related to the outdoor irrigation reduction, as well as a water waste, education and enforcement program. first, under regulations, they are listed here in the four bullets and these are uses that are considered water waste by the state, and are punishable by a fine of up to $500 as an infraction and the first one, the application of the potable water to the outdoor land scapes in a matter that causes run off, that is something that is already part of the city

ordinance that we have adopted and so it will be an effect of that later that you will see and that is already in the administrative code of san francisco. the second, puts limitations on washing motor vehicles, and the third, is the application of the potable water, to the driveways and sidewalks and the last is the use of potable water in the fountain or other water feature and that is probably the recirculation system and these are considered wasting practices that the state has prohibited >> and the next slide shows the exception to that, which is one that we actually requested in the regulations, that they should be an exception based on public health and safety and we have actually put in the website, a description of what we think that means for san francisco and that is the water can be used to wash the sidewalks if necessary to remove human and animal waste and other liquids and substances that cause odors or

attract for verm in only those with shut off nozzles should be used and for the least amount of time needed. and in the recognition, and that and the challenging environment there are situations where you really do need to use water as the cleaning agent as the last resort to effect clean up. >> and the regulation ts also required that the agencies implement all requirements and actions of the stage which the water storage plan that imposes mandatory restrictions of the landscapes or turf and requires reporting by the retail agencies on their usage on the monthly basis. >> so we talked about it exactly, how we will implement those. and we will cover both of those aspects, first the outdoor irrigation and, then secondly the water waste, and the education and enforcement program. >> and on the proposed mandatory ten