be above 18977 and another 6 inches by july will help to fill hetch hetchy reservoir. reduction in demand we're proposing for folks we've had a contracts for the lower aqueduct. the state relieve legislation was passed accelerating a lot of fund and people have been talking about how that can best be used. so we'll be looking at how to benefit our rate fairs in the potential of the relief drop. this is a skew mask we don't show and in particular they don't have the cherry aqueduct on the maps it is role for bringing water over from the cherry side of the system for the hetch hetchy for drinking water availability. this is a excuse me. mask the distances are not exact it's much shorn that you but what happens if we let water out of cherry lake to slow down cherry creek and water is diverted through a tunnel to the early intact below the powerhouse and flows into our system we filter that water it's comparable with hetch hetchy water but doesn't have the protects that hetch hetchy does so we don't have the filter protection we're trying to build a new convey as an to bri

the hetch hetchy system, we're very fortunate to have. it's a system constructed in national park and in national forest lands that allows us to store and convey our water for drinking water here in san francisco and much of the bay area, but it's also very key in providing us with the majority of the kilowatt hours we have in greenhouse gas regeneration. specifically, we have 380.5 megawatts of power up in the mountains. we augment that with our in-city generation from solar, small hydro, and biogas facilities here in san francisco, the biogas coming from the methane generated from san francisco's wastewater system. we've had the wonderful opportunity to have most of the system costs paid down. the kilowatt hours from the hetch hetchy system are quite cheap relative to the market today. and we've been able and willing to share those benefits with san francisco over the many decades of its operation. and what you see before you here is a quick listing of those benefits. 677 million just in transfers between 1978 and -- excuse me, 1979 and

if the folks at hetch hetchy would have stopped when they were told to stop with hetch hetchy, we wouldn't have this incredible water system that we have now. and at that time it was unpopular and costly. and, so, i think we need to look at the future and look at what this means for future generations. it's an important program, and i hope we can put it together in a way that effectively can be delivered and cost-effectively more importantly can be delivered, and hopefully as has been stated by many of the folk here today, be something that could assist with some of the financial needs of the puc. so, thank you, everyone, again and sorry, ms. miller, for that comment, and look forward to moving forward with this. thanks. >> thank you, commissioner breed. and thank you for your leadership on the rfp. it was your office that pushed this forward, so, appreciate it. thank you. okay. so, colleagues, we can go on to our next item which is i think is general public comment. >> yes. item number 7, general public comment. >> so, the microphone and the podium are available for any member of the publ

i have hope. >> i think one of the common themes is that we have hetchy power, we have firmed up hetchy power that we can sell. so, i think by providing and selling power to customers, more customers, get us to that point and i think we're definitely going to pursue that because that's what we normally do anyway, so -- >> i'm saying there is a way we can green light cleanpowersf going forward. if you can increase your service for wholesale customers, but perhaps an overlap between cleanpowersf around staffing might help minimize costs you can minimally. they can work together. if there are no other comments or questions from colleagues, we can go on to public comment on this item. public comment is open on this item. any member of the public would like to come forward? >>> good afternoon again, commissioners. eric brooks representing san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization, our city, and san francisco clean energy advocates which is a coalition working to move forward cleanpowersf. so, it's really important after that presentation to focus on this issue of availa

a million arc feet but we are dealing with 3 hundred thousand is directly available for our hetch hetchy reservoir. we're working on another project to make more water available for drink. the precipitation is good 40 in february in terms of the precipitation but still just a drop in the bucket to where we would be at this point. again, i included the table of our assistant storage and the current storm in cherry lake is 2 hundred and accomplice acre and that's a significant amount of water. the two grafts you you've come to see and appreciate is first precipitation again, the red line is above 1976, 77 but been stable in the last few weeks we should see on uptick from the stormwater this weekend. similarly the snow pack is way below normal so we have a long ways to go in observer system. some of the management actions flaw just to receive january 3rd amendment we called for a reduction in water citywide. this graft is basically over the last couple of weeks people have responded positively and the numbers are tracking where we need to be at a thirty percent reduction. on the twelfth the

can fill hetch hetchy by july 1st. that's quite good. just to review our management actions july 31st was the volunteer and the mayor followed up. our general manager declared an energy important the lower aqueduct that will increase water supply we're moving forward with the project and hope to have it operable by october 1st. i think is it this week >> thursday. >> free bid is thursday at the 9:00 a.m. we expect a contract by early primarily april. we've been watching the state drought legislation we have an elevation of water management funding 4 hundred million and another 2 hundred million for brought relieve. our san francisco ground water program and system in san francisco. on march third we sent our update for the water supply availability to our customers and that update said to continue to have a 10 percent reduction in place. we don't anticipate that being reduced anytime steno soon. april 15th we'll have our final estimate of our water supply for the hotel customers and this will be reaffirmed our - our wa

hale had up about hetch hetchy power, showed basically a net zero gain to san francisco. there are potentially other gains to the city and county of san francisco and that's one of the issues of the rfp is to look at both in terms of jobs and impacts to the economy. and i will also say that even within our own cleanpowersf program right now, some of those costs are discretionary in terms of local buildout. so, what we were looking for if our consultant is to talk to us a little about given the new financing projections from sfpuc, what kinds of rate structure could we look at in terms of dealing with hetch hetchy purchases that might provide zero or potentially some positive numbers. so, the important dates of the rfp was posted on february 20th. we will have a pre-proposal conference on march 12th. and the due date is march 27th. on term of the tasks, we don't yet have dates about when tasks are due because that will be a result of the proposals that we received from the consultants. some of our tasks are more timely than others and we will have a schedule of completion

responsibilities that the federal law and the city charter have placed on us to operate our hetch hetchy system responsibly to the benefit of san francisco's businesses and residents. and with a focus on meeting the public interest and the necessity for having a role in electric provision, electric service provisions here in san francisco. but though challenge do present consequences that can be quite negative for the city. if we weren't operating our power assets and the city -- the city's general fund were paying pg&e rates, the cost of doing byness for general fund departments would go up by about 50 million each year. for us, this financial circumstance isn't a reliability issue, it's a financial issue. of course, it becomes a reliability issue if we don't address it, but at this juncture we're addressing it as a financial issue and we're confident that we won't go negative given the options and solutions we have before us. but, you know, inaction will have us losing that sheet of benefits that i showed you for the city. we will also face, as we move forward, the need to meet bond co

our water from hetch hetchy come right through the mountain tunnel, right, it doesn't have any other place it goes so it's -- all the water in our system goes through there. seem like that would be the larger bulk of what would be paying for the cost of the mountain tunnel, the water. >> so, it's an agreement that happened in 1985. >> the water sales agreement? >> well, where they identify the proportion cost of these assets, 185. what was the rationale? >> you know, we are continuing to research the rationale. i don't have a good answer for that question. >> i would love to hear that rationale. it doesn't make much sense to me, and if there's a way that we can have a new rationale, that would be great. >> and we're looking at that as well because -- but we have to work with our wholesale customers because, of course, they want to make sure they pay their fair share and their definition of fair. and, so, we're starting to have those conversations. >> do you have a sense of when you'll be able to finish those conversations? >> we're moving swiftly on all fronts and this is one of the

the necessary levels at hetch hetchy. at the february levels in february 2014, water shed was at 40 percent of the snow level and snowpack was 22 percent of it's normal level and we have some of the best tap water in the country. it can be easily forgotten and the water has to come from somewhere. the hetch hetchy reservoir system through a marvelous civil engineering is still dependent on the river and the snowpack in the sierra nefd nevada and 2.6 million people depend on this. and it's going to make the state vulnerable to fires. as you know the rim fire burned for 69 days and threatened the hetch hetchy reservoir and was saved thankfully tourette fire -- to the fire departments. governor brown declared a state of emergency and called on californians to reduce their water energy by 20 percent. the sf puc is asking can ustomers to voluntary reduce their water usage by 10 percent. the department is outlining actions to reduce the water and develop alternative sources of water. today i would like to ask puc and department

in san francisco we're incredibly fortunate to have access to healthy hetch hetchy water. this is water that costs less than a third of a penny per gam on versus 1 to $4 per gallon in the single serving plastic water bottle. more importantly or just as importantly, the quality of this water is tested over 100,000 times a year with some of the highest quality tap water in the country. in fact today a few hours ago we had a taste test for folks to try to distinguish between hetch hetchy water and water that comes from plastic water bottles and there was no discernible difference. in recent years we've had city agencies who have partnered with the board of supervisors on a of efforts to partner with hetch hetchy water. we want to thank our legislation to require new buildings to install bottle filling stations. the legislation we have in froth of us today is another first in the country's step in this area. whereas places like concord, massachusetts, 14 national parks and many universities across the country have instituted outright plastic water bottle bans, this is legislat

we also know that the snow pack is a big portion of the hetch hetchy. emigrate black line is what they view from the average show pack into the watershed and the green line is again, the - is last year 2013 and the imply line shows you 23407 our last low water year and the red line is current. so let me give you one good slide here. with citywide the municipal water use has decreased so all the city departments are nearly on here. the water use has declined fwi percent since fiscal year 07 and 08 we're part of that but given the current drought there is more that needs to be done what are redoing that takes us into the current data. a couple of things irrigation was our main water use we're the largest city water user that's normal. we're looking to reduce our irrigation operation by 10 periods of time we'll ideal back our timer control setting as he the gardenerers will be mindful of pulling back their application of water by 10 percent this is one see exception no name reflecter motor it means sexy electronic probes into the ground will measure the ro

lowest continues for hetch hetchy so we indicate on the hill we'll be above the 19