[applause] >> good morning., i'm edward campbell and planning deck tore for portland oregon and i'm here on behalf of our water bureau who sends his regrets. i'm very glad to be here today before i start on the story of portland i want to say the morning session has painteded a picture for me of the scale of issues you face here in california and i hope the story i tell you about portland which we are a drinking water only utility and 80 miles away from the pacific ocean that there are lessons that can be useful to you but our issues pale in comparison to the issues your dealing with here. first a quick description of our system. its the largest one in oregon serving about 8 hundred thousand people. 25 percent of the state and average a hundred million gallons of water a day. our primary source is the bowling river in the cascade mountains east of the city and two reservoirs and ten million gallons of usable storage. we have a secondary ground storing source on the south side of the colombia river and we have capacity to serve our base needs just by ground water some you can count portla

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