agencies have been moving to gallons people recognize gallons. >> i understand that the hardware only records in cubic feet but gallons is good. >> good suggestion. >> yes. >> what do i have to go back and make one comment that on the public process of the comments we've heard i've shell shocked by what we went through i want to do most of it has been said is just give amelia cruz and thank him for speaking out but i've known amelia a long time and some of the words were uncalled for it's affordable unit a personal attack so amelia thank you for your service and

don't consider your resignation your staff it the authority of the city manager but i want to make the comment on behalf of the commission. >> i want to associate myself. >> i'm sorry we're still under discussion here thank you very much for those words it resonates the whole commission they feel strongly about that commissioner. >> i just wanted to say i associate myself with franciscos comment. >> yes. sir. >> i've known amelia for a long time maybe amelia didn't recollect how long i knew them him when i worked at the presidio of san francisco nobody denies that amelia cruz is not a hard worker, in fact, if we checks his e-mail i said that

what a go-getter you make things happen now when ms. lewis says what she says she's sensitive not knowing our process maybe that not everybody gets spade and she was going deep into a situation she compound scientists and wanted some renovation so it's not as an elderly let me say we respect amelia cruz a lot i've known him not when he was with muni the transbay i followed him and i've also respected him and he had it in writing i respected him no one wants amelia cruz because of

one single public comment from a young advocate she's not an elderly or not experienced as i am even though i can fault myself for sometimes being angry and saying things but i do apologize so we the community in san francisco willie brown and others who have put their faith in awe medical cruz know he's an asset to our community let me stress that amelia is an asset why would amelia cruz fill in the position if not experienced and not something to contribute to our society and our community so let me assure the commissioners and i'll talk to many lewis she comes from 70 santa fe i come from san francisco she gave me a ride i

needed it normally i take public transportation i wouldn't hop on it with my crutch let me assuring assure you that the bay area communicated respect him and tracks his experience and we're wanting to participate in the sewer system project let me assure you i too feel hurt that he got so emotional and i want to apologize on behalf of what was said but apologize for good so that the community heals and we go to a better place thank you very much. >> i really autumn very up -

where's many lewis let the record reflect she left dedeplorable really deplorable any other commission business? i have two announcements to make commissioners we have only one meeting in december meeting of november 25th has been cancelled because we are only 4 i would like to suggest to you that you try to clear our calendar to be at the meeting on december 9th i don't believe we'll have a new commissioner by then so that will be very important secondly, this is officially

todds last meeting but no matter what you think we have changed our plans (laughter) i'm speaking now for the general manager i can't do this myself but we'd like you to be at the next meeting we have a little idea for you if you would do that so we can send you off downstairs one floor one floor all right. yes >> ma'am, cane, commissioners, many have told me not to get up and say anything today, this was any general manager when i was with muni this was a man who stood up and

made a difference for 5 thousand employees most of which at one time were amending this is a man that went to different places as a friend and advocate and i want to make this clear whoever came here today representing the community was representing themselves because i know that i live and work in san francisco and we support wholeheartedly one one hundred percent amelia cruz and his work and i want to be clear that people who come here and as you all know as a young person i

was once i learned a lot of lessons do disrespect an individual that's what happened here today that is what can't happen again and so amelia if i think i wronged you in my way by not following our words because i asked if i could speak today and he said no, i'm sorry you have to do what you have to do but i'm here to support him and all the people i represent and live and work with in the southeast section of san francisco. >> state your name for the record, please. >> james bryant. >> mr. bryant thank you so much those are wonderful words we all using agree with them i hope

this never ever happens again okay any comment on item 6 which is commission business? moving now to the report of the general manager >> so the first item is a date - thank you. >> el less than deputy manager for the water enterprise steve richie is out of town on business so i'll be doing the drought update the first slide i see it actually take from an a laments article the reporter took information recorded to the state board in august requiring

the water utilities to compare how well, the communities are doing in chief of police the rationing goals the san francisco retail that is in city remain use is number one in the state in terms of the lowest amount of water used in per capita you're seeing the top 10 lowest in the state and 4 are within our service area with retail customers along with san francisco you've seen this slide many times here's the update on our reservoir storages on the hetch hetchy side we dropped six 10th of a percent and the stoppage one 10th of a percent on the cumulative precipitation looked at the red like that for

the 2014-2015 in new york city in november we jumped up slightly above 1997 and we ended the month of october another about 86 percent of average for the month of october we usually receive about rainfall in helpfully and ended up 4.7 percent on our total deliveries our seeing that we are achieving our 10 percent reduction at one hundred and 87 million gallons per day on our cumulative savings we achieved the 8 billion gallons but we need to maintain the same use parent in order to stay about the blacks

line the cumulative savings line i know mr. richie as a shared this we're in a new water year and while our customers have done well in 2014 the 10 percent additional conservatism needs to continue through 2016 until we feel confident we can move out after a use if we have at medium perspiration we're going to be on the road to recovery if we conditions similar to 2007 we'll continue with the reduction and color to 997 we'll likely need to move to percent reductions at the inn the spring of next year and begin the alteration of

water supply if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> any questions. >> yes. >> so i'm sorry can you put that last slide up again so you're saying by 2015 this time next year if we don't have improved conditions we'll go to 20 percent. >> in the water year switches over on october 21st that's the water year on the 14 so when i sass say the customers are doing well, we'll chief in 2015 it's for october 1st through cement 30th we're going to be watching our precipitation production and in the event that in springtime we're following somewhere around

the hydrologic conditions of 2007 we'll maintain the 10 percent reduction and have carry over storage so we'll still meet our demands if we have a year like 1997 in terms of that we'll want to take additional action if you go it down we e done we can't take action we'll be following the precipitation we like to wait for the snow pack and how much we need to anticipate in run off. >> so i hope i guess april if not before that 20 percent alternative analysis will be pretty primed and read for us to have the implementations pretty big. >> yeah.

>> any other comments thank you very much. >> so the next item is a querulous update amelia will start the presentation. >> good afternoon, members of the commission amelia cruz assistant general manager of the structure dpa will give the body of the quarterly update of the water system i wanted to highlight one with the i've ton tunnel i have a few slides on that so the new construction started in august of 2010 the tunnel excavation is completely in 2013 and the steel liner inside the tunnel was pledged the in 2014

there's been a process of filling that with drought and it was scheduled for disexhibition last month we did find a failure in the liner this was recorded the last meeting or the meeting before that and here's a photograph of the external pressure introduced by water wanted to explain the process the gray area represents the actual tunnel the interior line of the tunnel and the gray area is the annual space once the steel liner was put in place with the spaceers there's holes and the contract injects groet

it is given the fact we're going through a seismic zone if the seismic activity puts little pressure on the site if set that will hold the strength necessary but we believe what will probably happen there's water intrusion prior to the grout so lowell the pressure to be on the pipe the contractor has been complying hair crotch to set up a procedure to take out the 25 section of pipe and replace it and regrout it with a heavier

grout it was starting east and reintroduce grout into the annual space uss a 50 pound per skiech grout to push the cellular grout towards the edge and finish with a third pass with a psi with increment this will guarantee they fill every void that water intrusion to prevent this from happening again they're working east and about 3 hundred feet of the original failure this is a photograph as you can see it is identical in the failure it is due to water intrusion the contractor has stepped in and replaced that and regroutd that section the important thing to throw the entire section from east of the shack to the outer

west portal where the water pressures are the highest the contractors about go in and redo the entire space at one hundred and 50 pcy i effectively creating a skiech of the piping therefore gee no failures they have not asked for additional pay and everything with the contractor they've spending their own money and scheduling the work on their own time we pushed out the disexhibition to february of 2015 we'll not see my impacts on us i wanted to bring to your attention so you can we had assigned retrofit for the annual that is signed off by the engineers and the

contractors is fixing this and schedule for disexhibition in 2015 i can answer any questions. >> i have a question our saying their redoing zone 2 and 3 and they're going to do zone 4. >> yes. they'll do if i can get the slide back up the area that is kind of in red the area they've come through with their pass and they'll continue through west portal because of the higher portion abused of the water table they'll come back with a phase two grouting and phase 3, 3 passes to strengthen it. >> what about zone 1. >> we don't as you can see in the elevation the water table is

not as high the depth of the tunnel innovate as high so the pressure is not as high in the other two zones we've had the engineers look at it and we've seen no problem we'll continue to admonishment zone 1 through february and if we see anything we'll do the additional fix but not the level of water pressure in zone one. >> if we should in the future have failure in zone one i would assume the contractor will - and we have a warranty performance water i didn't so if we see a failure we'll use the warranty to fix it. >> any other questions or comments thank you. >> thank you mr. wade.

>> good afternoon, commissioners dan wade the director the quarterly report covers july 1st through december 30th, 2017, go to the slides please over of all with his up the regional program is 86 percent complete and the overall program is 84 that will 9 percent complete at the end of the third quarter the construction

activities continue to be the main focus with 16 projects with $2.8 million and construction has been completed on 63 of 83 projects and only two projects are left in preconstruction i'd like to highlight a few mrishlts first of all, we completes the environmental review with the regional storage and recovery project and advertising the construction we've continued to have an exemplar safety record based on $7 million recorded hours and so you know the last time incident rate is only 6.5 whereas the industry average is 1 buyout 4 we work hard for safety to maintain that record we've completed one hundred and 68 of the 2 hundred and 2 shutdowns

and any shut down that's complete that reduce the residual risk in the program we've which you have had the success on 34 projects but have as part of that project now all projects will obtain a level of service by the end of the promising program but we have a significant level of achievement service today. >> in terms of the program costs the program continues to be on budget and is forecasted for $756. million it's on schedule mainly all projects will be complete by the middle of 2016 the replacement project and the alameda creek and the ground water storage which will be completed by 2018 the change

orders we have 79 points $8 million that's included in our packet isn't there communications i wanted to say those change orders are covered by the contingency in the program and budgeted the largest change order was $69 million was the impacts for landslide b open the cal versus project i've spoken about that it was negotiated in march but the change order didn't get processed until this last quarter so that's why it was high there's one $2.9 million for the tunnel. >> before we leave the chart can you run the program costs

access to zero. >> certainly. >> just from a parent standpoint by limiting the range you're not paying for the provision a realistic picture of how close we are. >> fair enough okay so the largest change order with the calaveres project it was a $2.9 million for the bay tunnel that was to insure a reliable service from the bay tunnel you did commissioner caen asked for me to highlight some of the red flags in the report the only red flag on the active is the portal project it is six months late now the original the main project has been in service

since 2012 it was completed and has been in service since that time this is the are portal protection there were issues with welding and they've been corrected to no cost to the puc but sometime for the project to be reinspected and certificate the wells are done and it has on reinspected so that project will be complete in january. >> and the close out is in the consent calendar right. >> it is it is in the consent calendar for the construction contract and the total project close out will be in january. >> aren't there other red flags. >> actually, the regional report no there are not. >> okay i didn't note them why don't you continue.

>> okay stl there are several other quarterly reports related to the water c i p the only red flag p is the portal protection. >> on the waterside we'll have steve richie provide you explanations on those. >> very good. >> okay. >> i've shown this slide before i like to show it is a good reminder this shows the transition projects in the program i'm sure you're aware of we have tree and storage projects as well but the blue projects are complete and the green are projects that are still in construction and 5 projects remaining in

construction i want to point out that 3 are currently in service the seismic updates and the bay tunnel and the transition updates we've achieved the level of services on those projects the only one are the tomb and the peninsula pipeline seismic upgrades so this demonstrates that that seismic pipeline is part of the wissop in terms of recorrection the creek capture and we have completed the draft conceptually report and we've actually started to work on the environmental impact report and that's on schedule and budget then the ground storage recovery we finally listed the eir in

august and it was approved and advertised in september and expect to receive those bids before thanksgiving now i'd like to transition to highlight some of the major construction projects that are currently active as usual we'll at that start with the project this is making good process and, in fact, ahead of the baseline schedule this photograph was taken in october shows the excavation for the new dam and including the one the abatement is seven hundred feet from top to bottom we've excavated over $6.5 million cubic to date the construction in the photograph there's over 20 thousand cubic of concrete to prepare the foundation as well the securely