i am barbara palassos and a project manager with the sfpuc and i am here here'd to give you a introduction about this project of the i will talk about the water portfolio and the water program we're implementing here in san francisco. provide more details for the east side project. the sites we are considering and this project that we think is part of this project being successful and moving forward. as you know we provide drinking water to 2.6 million people in the bay area and includes all of san francisco and the 27 wholesale agencies outside of the city. the water is conveyed through pipelines and tunnels and we have several treatment plants. to make the system reliable and less vulnerable to earthquakes we are implementing our water system improvement programs and projects to upgrade this compl system. in 2008 this was certified by the san francisco planning commission. as part of this program eir approval the sf puc limited to water deliveries to the current level of 265 million-gallons a day and for the city of san francisco this meant developing 10,000-gallons a day of alternate wa