we are proposing to be the station by a loop which we -- will essentially connect chinatown. but, and closing, we know it will cost is $900 million to go from 22nd street to townsend. why don't you just carry on and spend 900 million, instead of $4.7 billion connecting townsend to the centre? thank you very much. >> supervisor peskin: thank you very much. mr olson, we. >> my name is ted olson. it was an honour, it is an honour to serve on the board for this project. i, obviously ask your approval of it, but i am here today to

commend the director on the way he conducted and chose all of the participants for this, particularly his collegial work with the other partner departments which means that this is a uniform intelligence of all of your infrastructure departments. i also want to commend susan, and the entire team for leading our see wg through this process of understanding all of the technicalities that went into this decision. finally i say, about the importance, and as john said, the differences between airports and roads versus railroad, by the time high-speed rail comes to san francisco, and the importance of this is it is a regional plan that we have proposed, by the time it arrives in san francisco, we will have 1 million residents.

i urge your approval. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. >> mr chairman, members of the commission, our interest is really in getting caltrain extended without any unnecessary delay. i'm glad to see this morning that a lot of the earlier proposals that were highly disruptive to the extension of caltrain, and yet, we are overpriced and this is progress. we are getting closer to something that makes sense now. i did want to talk about one that has been mentioned and that is, the yard. i don't think they really serious they looked at two options for leaving it there. one is to shrink it, because now there are 14 tracks and going down to maybe, nine. put it in the building and billed to the podium above and develop the air rights above.

the other is the depressive 30 feet and the whole sight is free. if somebody wants to build some massive parking garage underneath, i don't quite see the problem there. it's not that much more expensive than going down farther south, and much cheaper on the operational cost than buying new property somewhere else that we don't know anything about yet. so that was one point. we should not lose track of the possibility of keeping the yard where it is. it is operationally better for caltrain to do that. the second thing is, it was a time where they're free weight will get removed and that meant all kinds of nice garden apartments in the southwest corner of mission bay, but the freeway is going to be there, which blights the area for decades. i think it was a good decision to destroy that, but under a freeway, it is not such a bad place for an under, a street underpass. as it is here, the tail is wagging the dog. that underpass is causing a lot

of expense to be added to a project that need not be. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. >> i am representing safe uni. it is a supporter of the downtown expansion of caltrain. we want to see it didn't -- done as quickly as possible, and as inexpensively as possible. currently, the project is costed out at $3.9 billion. san francisco is now adding a number of conditions to this project. that is grade separation. i have no proper eight -- problem with pennsylvania avenue alignment and no problem with great separation. four years ago, before the beginning of this study, any rail expert would have told you that grade separation is a good idea.

the question is cost. according to their figures, the costs is to $.1 billion in excess of the current project. i think san francisco has the belly up to the bar here, and committing to that extra $2.1 billion. until you do, and until you confront the financing question, you really are never going to be able to get this project done. i urge you to commit to the city's funding capacity to the tune of $2.1 billion to accomplish the city's goals. and get this project done, now. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. are there any other members of the public here for item number 10, seeing none, public comment is closed. i think we are all deeply

committed to getting the downtown extension into the trans bay terminal. as a matter of fact, when we hear item 11, and i apologize to mr williams, and the folks who are here, i think the number of us are actually anxious to go to the opening of that salesforce tower that towers above, or next to that trans bay terminal. so this is an information item. there is much more to come over the months and years ahead. it is our job to make sure that, unlike in phase one, that the san francisco county transportation authority it remains intimatelremainsintimats project is delivered, hopefully as close to on time, and hopefully as close to the squishy budget as it now -- as is possible. with that, mr clerk, could you please read the next item? >> clerk: item 12, internal

accounting report, item 11, update on san francisco transportation agencies with chair accessible taxi incentive program and recreational shuttle service program. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. miss williams, i terribly apologize for dragging you here. but i would like to subject to public comment, and asked my colleagues to continue this to the next meeting. went very much want to hear it and i again apologize to you for having you sit here this morning. hopefully you enjoyed item number 10. and with that, is there any public comment on item number number 11? seeing none. >> to by mr chairman.

>> supervisor peskin: you can speak under general public comment which is coming up. >> okay. that's fine. >> supervisor peskin: all right. no other public comment, public comment for number 11 is close. is there a motion to continue this to the next meeting made by commissioner fewer and seconded by commissioner safai. miss it fallen? by the way, we will continue item 11 to the hearing of june 26th. >> on the deputy director for finance and administration. this is a report on the ta's financials as of the march 31st 2018. in the first nine months after this... revenues totalled 294.7 million.

expenditures total to 145.8 million. both revenues and expenditures are in budget for the first nine months of the year. in terms of investment compliance, 62.9% of the ta's cash, excluding the bond proceeds helped with u.s. banks are invested with the city's treasury pool and are in compliance with the california government code and the ta's investment policy. in terms of expenditure compliance, we had you remember there was a bond in november of 2017. we are five months into that. as of march 31st, we have spent 99.1 of those bond proceeds and have approximately 150.8 million to go and to be spent in the next 31 months. with that i'm more than happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor peskin: any questions? seeing none, is there any public comment on item number 12? seeing none, public comment is close. thank you for that information. is there any introduction of new

items? seeing none, is there any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed, and we are adjourned. [♪][music] >> san francisco city clinic provides a broad range of sexual health services from stephanie tran medical director at san francisco city clinic.

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workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in san francisco. >> when you're at the clinic you're going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. after you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. after you are called you come to the back and meet with a healthcare provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what samples to collect what medication somebody might need. plus prophylactics is an hiv prevention method highly effective it involves folks taking a daily pill to prevent hiv. recommended both by the cdc, center for disease control and prevention, as well as fight sf dph, two individuals clients were elevated risk for hiv. >> i actually was in the project here when i first started here it was in trials. i'm currently on prep. i do prep through city clinic. you know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly

recommend prep >> a lot of patients inclined to think that there's no way they could afford to pay for prep. we really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. we find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so it's affordable for them. >> if you times we do have opponents would be on thursday morning. we have two different clinics going on at that time. when is women's health services. people can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. we also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. he was city clinic has been like home to me. i been coming here since 2011. my name iskim troy, client of city clinic. when i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. i felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all

the information i need to know was very helpful. so i [inaudible] hiv care with their health >> about a quarter of our patients are women. the rest, 75% are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex with men. a small percent about 1% of our clients, identify as transgender. >> we ask at the front for $25 fee for services but we don't turn anyone away for funds. we also work with outside it's going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. >> i get casted for a pap smear and i also informed the contraceptive method. accessibility to the clinic was very easy. you can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. i feel i'm taken care of and i'm been supportive.

>> all the information were collecting here is kept confidential. so this means we can't release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a sexual health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. >> trance men and women face really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. and in healthcare. hiv and std rates in san francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. so we really try to make city clinic a place that strands-friendly trance competent and trans-welcoming >> everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. they are friendly good for me being a sex worker, i've gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they weren't competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel

like they slapped me on the hands but living the sex life that i do. i have been coming here for seven years. when i come here i know they my services are going to be met. to be confidential but i don't have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less >> a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10 minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. we have some testing with you on site. so all of our samples we collect here. including blood draws. we sent to the lab from here so people will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. then we have a few test we do run on site. so those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. people get those results the same day of their visit. >> i think it's important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most

comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you can come to. >> on-site we have condoms as well as depo-provera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. we can prescribe other forms of contraception. pills, a patch and rain. we provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in san francisco residents or, to women who are enrolled in a state-funded program called family pack. pap smears are the recommendation-recommended screening test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. we do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. >> in terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people.if people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little

more. we might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. so if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. to my best advice to be senior is get here early.we do have a website but it's sf city clinic.working there's a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. as well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. the phones answered during hours for clients to questions. >> >>

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period before i performed memorial services store produced women that were murdered on the streets of san francisco so i went back to the board and said we say to do something the number one be a safe place for them to live while he worked on changing 4 months later we were given the building in january of 1998 we opened it as a safe house for women escaping prostitution i've seen those counselors women find their strength and their beauty and their wisdom and come to be able to affirmative as the daughters of god and they accepted me and made me, be a part of the their lives. >> special things to the women that offered me a chance safe house will forever be a part of

the who i've become and you made that possible life didn't get any better than that. >> who've would know this look of this girl grown up in atlanta will be working with produced women in san francisco part of the system that has abused and expedited and obtain identified and degraded women for century around the world and still do at the embody the spirits of women that just know they deserve respect and intend to get it. >> i don't want to just so women younger women become a part of the the current system we need to change the system we don't need to go up the ladder we need to change the

corporations we need more women like that and they're out there. >> we get have to get to help them. >> >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to the tuesday may 22nd meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. role call, madam secretary. while you are getting that, i'll let you know that the items 16 through 21 on closed session

will not be heard. placed on the june 12th agenda. >> president kwon. [roll call taken] >> we have a quorum. >> item number 3, approval of the minutes of may 8, 2018, discussion first, public comments second and then the motion to approve and vote. that said, any discussion on the minutes? is there any public comment on the minutes of may 8? motion to approve? >> approved. >> second. >> president kwon: all in favor, ok, approved. item number 4, general public comment. in the jurisdiction and not on the agenda.

a speaker card here for mr. chris shutes, welcome. >> thank you. is this on? very good, thank you. good afternoon, chris shuttes with the california sport fishing protection alliance, and long time participant in the hydro electric projects. may 16, my colleagues and i got word a republican congressman from the san joaquin valley had attached an amendment to the appropriations bill to the department of commerce. prohibit the national marine fishery service from virtually any participation in the don pedro and the graininger projects. last that evening, organizations including c.s.p.a. submitted a letter to the house appropriations committee proposing the amendment. on may 17 it passed in committee.

i have a couple of paper copies, someone was supposed to bring more and he has not made it yet. clear in recent filings with the federal regulatory commission, the city and the sfpuc clearly have a stake in the outcomes of the don pedro and the grange licensing proceedings. i hope we can agree that a legislative rider that circumvents environmental laws and protections is not the right way we desire. i request it be on the agenda next meeting and ask the staff to draw up a resolution for consideration by the commission at that time. i realize it's short notice. however, the appropriations bill for commerce may move to the house floor in early june. and time is of the essence. some colleagues are here today to provide some additional

context for now. i will gladly answer any questions. thank very much. >> president kwon: thank you. any questions? may i pass these to the secretary? >> thank you. >> president kwon: thank you very much. mr. drikmeier, peter, welcome. >> thank you, president kwon. and commissioners. peter drikmeyer, the river trust. all aware scott pruitt and the trump administration have waged a war on the environment, and it's something we need to pay attention to. and it's san francisco's values. i wanted to read you a few figures from a public opinion poll, on san francisco attitude towards water rates and water supplies. and the number one reason that

people were much more inclined to support diversifying the water supply was the environment and the question was, or the statement, this proposal will be good for the environment by using other sources of water, less water will be taken from california rivers and more freshwater available to the fish, wildlife and plants that depend on it. and another question recycled water for irrigation and the environment was the number one reason. the more recycled water we use the less we take out of rivers and streams and the scarce water supplies. good for the fish, plants and wildlife that rely on them. 84% polled felt it was a convincing argument for reliable water supply and having drought-proof water supply, got 73%. so the environment was much higher.

so, i want to reiterate what chris requested, which is for the sfpuc to have it on the agenda about taking positions on the valedeo rider. >> president kwon: cindy charles. miss charles, are you here? >> good afternoon, welcome. >> hello. cindy charles, a native from san francisco. for years and years i've been involved in the don pedro and legrange licensing and other issues on the river. long time conservation chairperson for the golden west women's fly fishers, a signatory to the letter to the house appropriations commission in opposition to a horrible amendment. participation in the relicensing

of the don pedro and legrange hydro electric products, excluding the national marine fishery service from continuing the long time scientific work alongside other federal, state and resource agencies is not justified a bit and is extremely wrong. i know my fellow people in san francisco would be deeply disappointed with the large scale roll back of environmental protections and regulations without any public input on such a grand sweeping scale that seems to somehow benefit central valley political interests. such sudden and targeted dismantling of a long established process for dam relicensing is an attack on the goal of equitable use of water from the river. it is an improper policy change that is totally against the environmental values of san francisco. therefore, i am also requesting that the commission put on the

agenda the next meeting and ask staff to draft a resolution of opposition to the amendment for immediate consideration by the commission. thank you very much. >> anne clark. miss clark, are you here? good afternoon. >> good afternoon. i'm vice president, friends, talk very fast. thanks so much for all that you do for our camp mather, wonderful to have the john o'connell students at camp. yours is a terrific program for our city students, our high school city students, and we appreciate it so much. we look forward to seeing you at camp mather and taking time to be with all the campers. a new corral and horse group will be at mather this year. so, we hope you get some time out to come and enjoy and be with us at camp mather. this year on september 26th we are going to have a friends and

family afternoon party on september 26th by friends of camp mather. you'll be gets more notices, put it back in your mind. it's a fun event for little kids and big kids alike and here to tell you i'm embarrassed to tell you about my p.u.c. saga. there was a lot of construction going on in my neighborhood with pg&e and other construction people. i did not pay much attention to my water bill, that's the truth. i just paid the bill. i got a notice from p.u.c. and ignored it. then i got another letter to contact p.u.c. well, i followed up on that one. it was a nice letter, but it had some points i thought i should pay attention to. and believe me, here i am an environmentallist who was not looking at my water bill. the good news was, i met a p.u.c. water inspector who came to my home.

his name was matthew jay brady. he was wonderful. he and i went through my whole house together from top to bottom, explained to me what was going on. it turned out there was one toilet that was not working right and was causing the problem and needed fixing and causing my bill to go up substantially. as i said, i had not paid much attention. the part did -- it was a part that was done, wore for one toilet. did not cost very much and my son fixed the toilet. so, thanks for all the information, and the terrific walk through my house with matthew. i'm just sharing that with you because there are probably a lot of others of us who don't pay attention but matthew did and you did, and my bill is much less. so, thanks very much. good job to all of you and

especially matthew and finally, go warriors. >> what does the camp open? this year? when does the camp open? >> i think there is a preview, harlan, do you know? preview, when john o'connell, i think it's june 6th or something. >> i think it's like a week before, or two weeks before it actually opens. >> right, i'll send you the information. >> ok. >> good, thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker is barry nelson. mr. nelson. >> good afternoon. >> thank you, chair kwon and members of the commission. i'm barry nelson speaking for the golden gate salmon association. i would like to talk briefly about the tawalame river rider.

golden gate salmon association is an industry association of the entire salmon fishing industry in california. the commercial boats, recreational boats, the charter boats, folks who manufacture retail gear, tribal interests, restaurants and more. headquartered in san francisco and because san francisco bay and the rivers that feed it are the most important salmon runs south of the columbia river. without bay delta salmon, there is no salmon fishing industry in california, pretty simple. and that's an enormously important industry. there are before of our salmon runs really got into trouble a decade ago, $1.4 billion a year, 23,000 jobs spread up and down the whole california coast and up our rivers. it's a remarkably significant industry, but we are, we are here in san francisco for multiple reasons. i was at an event last friday on

fisherman's wharf at a fish processing facility with a large group of g.g.s.a. allies, several hundred people, celebrating and san francisco chef, celebrating salmon and working together to restore those salmon runs. great event, but it comes at a really vulnerable moment. our salmon runs are in deep trouble right now. our jobs are in trouble. our industry is in trouble. 2008 and 2009 for those two years, it was illegal to catch a salmon in the state of california. put people out of work up and down the state, especially here in fisherman's wharf. and we are very worried about a potential repeat of that, of the salmon season this year was slashed because of low numbers, those low numbers are because of two things. it's because of the drought, because we don't always manage our rivers as well as we should. so we need to make progress on every central valley river in order to help the salmon runs recover. that is one of those, and this

rider would essentially take the national fishery service, the agency charged with protecting our salmon runs out of of the process. but i would urge you also to think about this as something much larger than just a debate about the future of the tawalame, and even debate of the salmon and fisherman's wharf. if the rider goes, it will encourage other aggressive attacks on the federal energy regulatory commission. a number in recent years. there are about two dozen separate attacks on salmon in congress and in the regulatory agencies right now. those are two dozen separate attacks just on california salmon. this rider passes, especially if the city is not active in opposition, it will encourage more of those bills to move forward. so, i would urge you to put it on the agenda, to pass a resolution encouraging the board of supervisors to take position

in opposition. that i think would help stand up for san francisco history, san francisco industry, and what we all value, thank you. >> president kwon: thank you. any other public comments? general public comments? ok. item number 5, communications. any discussion, commissioners? >> i have discussion. mr. richie, i was noticing your report on the water supply conditions. and the very low snowpack that we had this year. do you anticipate any problems because of that? >> steve richie, assistant general manager for water. i would not call it a low snowpack, it's less than median, but certainly better than 2015 and i think on par with 2016. so we fully expect the system to fill with runoff, in fact, i

think hetchy should be full in another couple weeks. but yes, water bank is full and we expect the other up country reservoirs to fill as well. >> good. >> president kwon: any public comment on item 5? seeing none. other commission business, item 6. >> i have a little levity. somebody sent me this piece, it was in "the chronicle" a few weeks ago, it was the opening day when the giants moved here, so that's 60 years ago. and of course we played the dodgers, and of course they won, but that's not what i wanted to read to you. so, the city was all flitter about the fact opening day and everybody was planning on going. reported that the san francisco public utilities commission meeting covered 29 items in less than an hour.

[laughter] and our president could do that, too. so, that's nice that we are remembered. >> were you the president? 60 years ago. ok. so, thank you, mr. chairman. i did want to thank staff, and then all the folks that were involved in the golden pride awards 2.0, took place last night. i had sent an email to the commission secretary a little earlier with a group photo, hopefully we'll have a chance to look at that at some point in time. i think the smiles on people's faces is worth 1,000 words. the event i thought was really well received.

everyone here was there. and you could just tell that folks that sometimes are not a part of these meetings or a part of these conversations really appreciate being recognized. i thought the one thing that stood out this year over last year, and these things are intended to be organic and to grow and change a little bit, to accommodate everybody's needs, but also through input, there was some incredible production value in the videos and i'm not sure who, who was responsible for that. it was really, really, i have not seen it. we do a lot of recognition events in the city for a lot of different kinds of employees, staff, and executive level personnel, and i've never seen it really that good, so a kudos to whoever did that. the one thing that was missing at the very end, we had a chance to take a group photo, and

carlan and kathy and juliette were not in the photo, steve richie, and so let's be better on that one piece next time. >> we'll photo shop them in. >> the emcee, however, was amazing, president kwon. amazing. >> well, thank you. a person that did not step back when asked who was emcee, but it was an honor to be there, and great, and applaud your vision for it. and harlan, your wife described you as my vanna white. but it was a great image. staff are absolutely terrific. thank you. any other commission business? any public comments? ok. sf-tv did video yesterday, so video of the whole thing. >> called and let me know that they were responsible for the coverage last night. >> wonderful, thank you. you were on tv.

>> kudos. again, oh, all right. >> any public comment for item number 6? ok. so we are now moving to item 7, report of the general manager. >> good afternoon, commissioners. the first item is a cleanpowersf update. barbara hill. >> good afternoon, commissioners. barbara hale. today's cleanpowersf update will cover service to customers, enrollment and regulatory activities. under item 10 later in the agenda, asking you to allow us to rely on calpine to support our programs. 81,000 accounts. opt-out percentage remains at 3.2%. so, we are retaining 96.8 of the customers that we enroll. the rates continue to exceed the

opt-out, over 4,000 businesses receiving 100% renewable through the program. everything is moving smoothly. ahead to the july auto enrollment, mailing the enrollment notices for july 2018 enrollment. that will increase the customer count to about 105,000 accounts. adding mostly commercial accounts. seven customers so far have opted out now that we have begun the enrollment process. we are starting to see some modest opt-outs. regulatory activities, specifically the power charge and difference adjustment or exit fee and the customer choice report. on the power charge and difference adjustment, hearings have concluded at the california public utilities commission and we are working with the city attorney and with our colleagues in the trade association, cal c.c.a., preparing our briefs in the case. those briefs are due in june.

we expect a proposed decision from the assigned administrative law judge to be published for comment in august. so, we are going to have kind of a quiet period here soon while on that case, while the judge drafts their, his proposal for the commission's consideration. as i reported earlier to you, the california p.u.c. staff published a report on customer choice. they are referring to it as the green book. they did that on may 3. it's reported in "chronicle" and other publications. we'll be meeting with the p.u.c. staff to discuss the report tomorrow. raises questions about how the state will achieve its affordability, decarbonization and reliability objectives with the increased choice that is occurring in the electric market, and specifically, it raises fears that customers

choosing to take service from c.c.a.s and customers choosing to generate their own power, like through rooftop solar, are going to compromise these objectives of affordability, reliability, and decarbonization. says there's no plan for mitigating the outcomes. does not discuss how the role of the california p.u.c. itself could or should change in the face of the changes that they are anticipating, and offers no solutions. flagging the need for unspecified regulatory and legislative change. the california p.u.c. set a deadline for comment of june 11th on that report. and they scheduled a legislative style hearing, referred to them, for june 22nd. you can anticipate that will be very active, both in sacramento and here at the california

p.u.c. helping to shape the outcome of the dialogue that the california p.u.c. has opened. with that, i'll take any questions if you have them. thank you. public comment? >> hetch hetchy quarterly report, dan wade. >> mr. wade, how are you? >> doing well, thank you, president kwon. good afternoon. dan wade, capital, water capital projects and programs director. today update on the hetchy capital improvement projects for the period from january 1st through march of 2018. but also like to emphasize some of the work that started in march and is ongoing, with respect to the moccasin emergency. as you know, march 22, 2018,

hetch hetchy water and power at moccasin experienced excessive rainfall and subsequent flash flooding, floodwaters continuing volume debris, sendment, downed trees and logs. and this flash flooding has serious detrimental effect on the assets, including moccasin reservoir and adjacent areas, as well as priest reservoir. as you know, sfpuc declared emergency on march 23 and clean-up efforts and emergency repairs were immediately started to restore water delivery to the city. i would like to just show you a couple of photos, i know steve richie showed some photos right just after the event, but this is a photo that shows the floodwaters near their peak at about 1:40 in the afternoon of march 22, and what you are looking at there is the dam over

on the left side, with the floodwaters within about a foot of the crest of the dam. which is something that you really you never want to have happen with a dam because overtopping is something that would be, that we want to completely avoid. and so at that point, and after seeing seepage on the downstream face of the dam, as you know, an emergency evacuation order went into effect and downstream folks were evacuated. on the right side, the floodwaters are actually going through two spillways, one is the main spillway, which is kind of in the center of the photo, where you kind of see the water going off a cliff and then on the far right is the auxiliary spillway, built in the 1980s, to be able to provide additional spillway capacity.

this photo shows the seepage that was emanating from the downstream face of the dam during the event. and this was another major concern during that event because we never want to see dirty water coming out of a dam. that could indicate internal erosion. since that time, we have done some investigations. we don't think there was internal erosion in the sense a dam safety issue, we think the dirty water was from the reservoir. this is the upstream diversion dam that diverts creek flows around moccasin reservoir, an intake upstream of this structure that allows creek flows under normal operation to say bypass the reservoir and keep the hetch hetchy potable water isolated from the creek flows. in this event of course we had a

major amount of debris come downstream and clog that diversion pipe and then the dam essentially overtopped and creek flows did go into the reservoir, which resulted in the emergency declaration. now, immediately after the event, hetch hetchy water and power crews, as well as contractors hired by the sfpuc went to work, they worked through the night on march 22, and through the next several weeks, 24/7, essentially, to clear debris, reestablish flows through the diversion. this is the removal of debris from behind the moccasin, diversion dam, and on march 24, which is saturday, able to reestablish flows through the conduit, so the flows bypassed the reservoir and the facility was functioning once again, but there was major damage to this

facility that i'll show you in just a moment. this is what moccasin reservoir looks like now. you see there's not a reservoir there. it's drained until such time sfpuc in consultation with the california division of dams is satisfied that interim measures are in place to safely operate the dam and the pertinent facilities associated with the team. the d.s.o.d. has told us that they actually want to take jurisdiction of the diversion dam as well because they see that as a facility to the main dam. currently the hetch hetchy potable water flow is discharged directly from the moccasin powerhouse, you see off in the distance and fed directly to a bypass pipe that feeds to foothill tunnel, feed in turn to the san joaquin pipelines, completely bypassing moccasin reservoir. now, that is important for a

number of reasons. one, it's a regulating reservoir, an after bay for the powerhouse and also regulating water reservoir for the water system, so in this condition, our operations folks are concerned about the lack of operational flexibility in case there is a disruption to one of the power generating units. they would have a disruption to flow of water to san francisco and so you wouldn't be able to react and provide water from the reservoir when you have that type of disruption. so, there will be a lack of time, there would be changes in pressure concerns and some in pipelines because you have to have the powerhouse flow exactly in sync with the pipeline flows and thirdly, we have less control over turbidity. so interim repairs and improvements made by october 1st of this year, so that