it would replace irrigation system. replace that completely quick cover line, install a booster pump to increase water pressure, improve irrigation system layout and design, replace unusable turf with drought tolerant plantings, where appropriate in park design, and install a weather-based smart irrigation controller. with this project complete our estimated water reduction would be one-third reduction or $2,545,192 gallons annually, which is very substantive. that being the project that we proposed, the puc has made available this money for the project. it is available to the end of fiscal year 13-14. their grant funding covers 57% of the total project costs. remaining 43% of the alamo square cost would be subsidized by the department's capital budget in the amount not to exceed 1 million. if you would approve the mou today and once it is executed, the department must complete this particular project within two years or forfeit the grant receipts unless otherwise agreed. so the proposed mou before you is attached to yo

infrastructure problem which is the movement and distribution of water throughout all of our landscape irrigation systems and the maintenance of park water consequently they focus on pump stations and data base systems and controls and those items on the second page of the memo are broken up for you. three are them are in mccarren park and irrigation controls at lookout point and the lake mc nab replacement for that valve. in golden gate park a majority of water is from ground wells so the north pump station needs a new booster pump and a similar situation out at the zoo since we main thain that pump station also and needs valve and gasket replacements and back in golden gate park speckles lake and the boat basin and shallow pond right there is still the original installation and held up by a retaining wall from 36th avenue and it's failing and we have a major water lake so we proprose to take $150,000 of this to dredge and reinforce that retaining wall and replace it and that will keep the lake in place for the future. the above proposed projects as i explained to you and the three mccarren will be unde

water through washing their cars in the street, hosing down sidewalks and parking lots, their irrigation systems overspray. narrator: in a city of 12 million people, those seemingly small bits of wasted water accumulate to enormous amounts. shapiro: so all that ends up in our streets, ends up in catch basins, storm drains, into our storm drain system, and for some of the city, parts of the city, it ends up here at smurrf. 350,000 gallons come here on a daily basis, producing recycled water, and that can be reused for landscape irrigation and indoor toilet flushing. the pumps can only handle so much water, which is generally when it's not rain, the dry-weather runoff, so if you get a storm of a decent size, the pumps will shut down automatically and the water will just continue to flow out into the ocean and it carries a lot of bacteria and people can get sick when they're swimming in the water near a flowing storm drain. everyone knows you don't go in the water for 72 hours after it rains. you just don't. this is the dirtiest beach in southern california. doheny beach. i've surfed this twice --

a house and if so not a very little boss, right next door you would see cultivated fields, irrigation systemsautiful barns, and so on. and you don't even need to look at the property records to know that the productive one is hel in private and the other one is held in common interest by the federal government's. john: indians on both sides of the road, but private property on one. you can even see a. the difference. >> you can see it. it's fascinating to adjust to will a reservation, the blackfeet reservation, growth. john: there is not much development. very few farms. here is one. >> you an see this same thing on manas reserves were they have managed to develop an industrial park. they are creating jobs, wealth, and at least getting 1 foot up the ladder out of poverty. john: i'll give you the last word >> well, what we have to do is reserve -- reverse 500 years of colonization. but first nations, indiantribes in theedriver's seat. we can be successful where the federal governments in both countries a failed. the only way that that ultimately can be resolve this by granting us the right to

environmental impact review or eir would show having a bullet train running through the middle of irrigation systems and farm land would add transversely effect agricultur agriculture. >> we are lacking at a situation up disclosed in the eir where a farmer might have to drive 5 miles to get from one side of his farm to the other because there's a railroad right-of-way down the middle. >>reporter: attorneys for the rail authority argue environmental review were done properly and emphasize a delay could add to the already high price tag. >> 8 to continue.3 million dollars if the court issues injunction for 6 months. that would be petitioner request. >>reporter: not to mention delay could also jeopardize billions of dollars in federal grant money that must be spent by 20 17. in the end the judge denied the preliminary injunction which means barring other potential delay the project proceeds as planned. plaintiff are considering taking their case to federal court. in sacramento, abc 7 news. >>> hostess the maker of twinkie dinge do you think and wonderer bread going out of business. the texaco said it w

the farmers argued the bullet train would run through farmland and irrigation systems and that the rail authority did not do adequate environmental reviews. >>> california's unemployment rate showed a slight decline in october. it kicked down from 10.2% in september to 10.1% last month. employers add 45,800 jobs. the bay area's unemployment rates were mostly unchanged. marin county still had the lowest at 5.8%. slau know county came in. at unemployment numbers could take a severe hit. where talks stand right now and the tax hit that you could expect if there is no agreement. >>> apple and samsung are expanding their legal battle over patents. samsung now says its patents were violated at apple's new iphone 5 and apple says its patents were violated by samsung's galaxy s3 and galaxy note phones. this case is different than the patent suit. >>> 49ers head coach jim harbaugh returned to work today one day after being hospital iedz for an irregular heartbeat. 48-year-old harbaugh says he underwent a cardio procedure yesterday. it's done by sending an electric current to the heart to get its

part of the answer is found in an elaborate system of irrigation, canals that helped the city producea large agricultural surplus. although most remained farmers, irrigation freed some 30,000 to 40,000 people to pursue other jobs like making clay figurines. but it was not clay sculpture that transformed teotihuacan into an economic superpower. it was another material -- obsidian, a natural volcanic glass whose edge was as sharp as a razor. obsidian was the knife of the ancient world. 30 miles north of teotihuacan, archaeologists have discovered the major source of obsidian in a place called pachuca. this is alejandro pastna of the mexican institute of anthropology and history, and his colleague rafael cruz. they have come here to map the locations of ancient mines. let's go. [ glass crunching ] obsidian fragments litter the surface, the refuse of thousands of years of mining activity. the glass that formed here by nature was especially prized by the ancients because of a unique quality. interpreter: this obsidian was only formed in this deposit. most obsidian is black or gray, but the

irrigate the building's trees and landscaping. >> when we're resues using water we have on-site, we're not purchasing new water and we're also not putting sewage down into the sewer systemmoney. this is a demonstration project of 5,000 gallons a day. it is the beginning of understanding and feeling comfortable with this technology that can be scaled up into eco districts and community scale systems, campus-type systems where in those situations when the water is reused and the numbers are much higher, 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 gallons a day, imagine the savings on that that you're getting. you're not purchasing freshwater and you're not using the sewer and being charged appropriately. this wastewater processing and reuse technology is cutting edge. and although it's been successfully implemented in other cities, it will be one of the first such installations in an urban office building. >> here is a city agency that treats wastewater, but they send no wastewater to the treatment facility. that says a lot. >> it's got a 12 gallon per day occupancy using 5,000 gallons per day with a building officing 1,000 people. that turns out to save over 2.7 million gallons a year. >>