fields during irrigation events. but a large amount -- about 75% -- is applied in dry form one month before they actually plant the seeds. matson: they were worried that if they didn't get it on early, they might not be able to get it on later when it starts raining or if it starts raining. so they were trying to avoid risk. of course, what they didn't realize is that they were probably losing a lot of nitrogen before they ever even got the seeds into the ground. narrator: and this excess nitrogen can be damaging to the environment. matson: one of the problems with all that extra nitrogen going onto land and fertilizer is that it doesn't all get used by plants. it doesn't all get taken up. in fact, maybe on average 50% of it doesn't stay in agriculture systems but rather gets transported out of the fields where they were applied, and the trogen goes off to the atmosphere in a number of different forms, including nitrous oxide, which is a greenhouse gas, nitric oxide, which is an air pollutant. and some of the nitroge

once recycled water comes in as the irrigation water supply, this facility would allow back up for that recycled water system as well. this is a view of the landscape plan for the central pump station well facility. landscaping would include a low berm and some trees and slubs to better screen the facility from public views and it would include an access road. and otherwise, landscaping is fairly minimal. mainly just receding with native grasses. this is an architectural rendering of the pump station well facility looking toward the southeast. as dan mentioned, and i mentioned briefly are two departments, puc and park department have been cooperating extensively, starting in 2006, we were looking for wells and recreation and park department staff participated in architectural designs for the facilities. staff has reviewed our progress design sets and the 100 design packages for the project. and we've collaborated on the memorandum of understanding the mou which is part of today's agenda item. back in 2008 and 2009, the puc made informational project to the commission and in 2009 our dep

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 root zone moisture content. those probes allow you to control the irrigation exactly to what the roots needs it's probably the best tdr industry. golf course is already at the maximum use of their uses so we want to get the probes out to the other implying places to use the technology. we're going to turn off our recreational water features religious are the ones that fund sadly we just have one were kids can jump around in the water the water doesn't recirculate we have one at the minnesota park and julius con race a feature where water coyotes and that's going off and the children's corridor in the said. >>and sadly at lafayette we've got a flowing river we're goin

they're existing irrigation wells, there's the north lake wells facility

turnquist: as we irrigate, we continually add a little salt to the soil. and i look at some of my neighbors' lands, and i can see the saltwater right at the surface. and i look at one parcel of my ranch, and the salt's getting closer and closer. and as the salt gets closer and closer, i see losing my ranch. keach: by the 18th century b.c., civilization had largely abandoned southern mesopotamia. evidence of salt damage here can be found in ancient texts. clay tablets like these describe a host of changes in the harvest due to salt in the fields. archaeologists continue to debate the causes of this collapse, but one fact is clear -- irrigation and salinization contributed to the decline of city after city. in this cradle of civilization, humans demonstrated they could destroy their environment as quickly as they could master it. but there are no deserts in mesoamerica. what can explain the maya collapse ? the majority of their cities flourished in a broad tropical rain forest, one of the wettest environments on earth. here irrigation was insignificant, and

a road is flooded because of an irrigation pipe that has popped which leads to we. it is open but it could be slow. on the surface streets in fremont, osgood wood is closed. fremont is the google alternate and it will open at 7:00, and bay bridge there are delays to the overcrossing. >> we will follow-up on the breaking news from fremont, a mother and her young child are injured in a horrific head-on crash. both drives may be to blame. matt? >> in five minutes we watched the tow trucks arrive taking the vehicles out here at the investigation wraps up. osgood will be open by 7:00 this morning between the parkway. three people are sent to the hospital including the four-year-old girl. the mother was driving southbound and veered into the northbound lane hitting a camry driven by a 30-year-old fremont man. >> we have one independent witness who puts the southbound vehicle between 50 and 60 miles per hour in a 40 miles per hour zone. speed is not totally unseasonable but it looks bad because both are traveling at 40 or 50 miles per hour. police suspect both drivers ever

we hope to make best practices for irrigation and fixing leaks appropriately. and parks and recreation and dpw are starting to control their irrigation as well as the puc because we have a lot of land scaped areas. people are working on this quite well together. one of the things about the system again that is old that we've been actively working on the 4.6 water system improvement program and i'm happy to report that's 80 percent complete to address current and future system needs. those are aimed at increasing reliability. during the rim fire, for example, our improvements at the snow valley treatment plan is more reliable in case we have to filter the supply. if we had to filter it we can do it reliably at the treatment plant. that's what we are doing now going forward this year if we need to filter the cherry lake supply. these kinds of things are what we are doing going forward. on the state at legislature fund, there are three areas we are funding one is the cherry lake canal and we can bring it over and put it into the hetch hetchy aqueduct. that is last

pistachios, pecans, all of these things are tied to irrigation and the ability to irrigate hundreds of square miles of agricultural land along the rio grande throughout the state. in 1994 in the mid 1990's, elephant butte reservoir was functioning like it had since the early 1900's, storing all of that snow pack that we talked about a few minutes ago, making sure that it was released to serve agriculture to extend the irrigation season to make sure that those crops were realized, and then we began to get into this long-term persistent drought. you have probably heard the stories about california and its drought and its impact on agriculture. new mexico has experienced just as intense a reduction in snow pack, in predictability of summer description. we get a lot of our moisture in the summer, in the summer monsoon, the wettest time of the year outside of the winter. we get some in the wintertime and snow pack typically, and then in the summertime we have these summer thunderstorms. and the predictability of that is all changed now. but as can you see so has the quantity. elephant butte

you can get two or three crops a year off this kind of land if you have some sort of irrigation. people who have access to or who own this rich, irrigable part of the valley, which is only a very small portion of it, tend to be the wealthy and politically powerful people in the system. and i suspect it was very much like that among the pre-historic maya. keach: webster believes the low-ranking maya depended on the nobles just as these poor farmers depend on the modern landowners. during certain months of the year, a wealthy landowner permits these two men to grow food for their families on the rich bottom land. like the ancient maya, they plant without the aid of a plow. the farmers explain to william sanders they pay a steep price to feed their families. keach: the farmers pay the landowner not with cash or part of their crop, but with something equally precious -- their labor. the poor farmers live in these thatched huts. to fulfill their obligation to the landowner, they descend to the valley each day during the irrigation season to tend tobacco and other cash crops. like the

you can have an irrigated crop insurance program or a non-irrigated program. just quickly, mr. chairman, did the department look into a partially irrigated system? because we've got farmers who are not fully irrigating because of drought or irrigation reduction programs and so they're not qualifying for the irrigation program but they're not really a dry land program either. >> currently there are a small group of farmers who have individual written agreements providing that protection. part of the problem is it's been hard getting the data that would help us be actuarial sound and be a legitimate insurance product, but with the experience we're having with the individual agreements we hope to get to a point and obviously when and if we get the foundation, we will look at that. there is also within the farm bill an opportunity for us to take a look at irrigated and unirrigated policies. >> mr. farr. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to shift to an issue on food for peace. i'm a return peace corps volunteer and certainly interested in the food for peace program. i've seen in

irrigation is helping grass grow faster, animals eat better. cows have increased output five fold. they start to process milk into yoghurt. she has so many orders. the benefits are trickling down. >> translation: now i have everything to eat. i learnt a lot for me and my children. no one can take it away from me. >> part of the program is to encourage children to see the farms as small businesses. >> this is a leader of the former's movement, he's a brain behind the project launched in 1992. >>. >> translation: the key is poor people building their future. people agree. wherever there is small farming in the world, people can take a great leap like those in the project. >> the project competes with government handouts, turning 60,000 poor families into a rural middle class. people are proud they are doing it on their own. >> a collection of rare books and manu scripts have gone on display at the iraqi national museum in baghdad. some date back over 1,000 years and have been salvage friday a vast collection at the museum, damaged during the violence. thieves ransacked the building,

they built enormous irrigation systems, the canals brilliantly engineered to carry water.hey were enormous in size. >> canals, 14 metres wide and 5 metres deep irrigate an area of 500,000 hectares, supporting a population of 80,000 people. about 600 years ago hohokam's civilisation collapsed. the reason, water, or lack of it. at the university of arizona, the world's largest collection of tree ring data tells the story. >> scientists studying wood can tell how weather patterns shifted with disastrous results for people like the hohokam. >> it was one of the most serious droughts in the last 200 years, obviously affecting the people quite badly, i would say. >> there's a drought going on right now. do we have any idea whether we are at the beginning, at the middle or towards the end. >> no, not until it's over, and then you know. >> how long could it last? >> well, the one in the 1500s lasted almost a century. >> global climate change caused by modern human activities will make future droughts force says geoscience tist jonathan overpeck. >> the draught in the middle east ,

all sent to your smart device which will let you turn on and off irrigation without you having to bet we can see online exactly what's going on, it enables us to hold off on the irrigation sometimes into mid, late july, and in a couple instances, we have discovered that we didn't need to irrigate entire vineyard blocks throughout the entire growing season. >> find me the center line. >> reporter: then there's the old tech, way old tech. mark uses divining rods which cross when there's ground water underneath and claims he has a 95% success rate. >> well, i charge $500 to show up and i have a little kicker, if they hit over 50 gallons a minute, i charge $10 a gallon a minute above that so unfortunately, most of what i'm doing is under 50 gallons a minute. >> reporter: there you go. next hour on "street signs" you have heard of wine in a box. how about wine in a keg? don't laugh. they're selling it, serving it, pebble beach. we'll have that story. >> can't wait for that one. you are in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. thanks so much. >>> she has been called the next thomas

irrigating this comparatively small field for a few hours costs a hundred dollars. the process has to be repeated several times a week for the crops to grow. but now the reservoirs are emptying. the san luis reservoir is one of the most important in the region and it's only 40 percent full. scientists in california expect the situation to worsen in the future. >> there's very high consensus around increasing droughts in the future related to global climate change, because not only are we having earlier snow melts and less snow pack, which is one of our largest water reservoirs in the western u.s., but we're also having hotter temperatures which means that outdoor plants require more water to survive. >> that will force people to manage their resources differently. >> in the past, we have had droughts, but they've typically been two to three years, which means that we can wait for a wet year. that might not be what happens in the future. if we look at the science, it tells us that we're likely to see longer and more severe droughts. and as that begins to happen, peop

not only is it earlier and its dry and i have to add more irrigation, but there is still a possibility we might get some late season rains, but with the late season rains, i have an increased chance of frost. if i get a frost, i'm gonna lose all these. with unusually high winter temperatures plaguing vineyards across california, tourism to wineries is flourishing. the irony of the drought this year is that the weather has been so nice that the restaurants and events have broken records almost every weekend, we've had great customer response. the rest of the country's extreme winter weather is bringing many to southern california. it's been so cold in illinois, and it's been great being in california for the weather and the wine! the restaurant is doing a happy dance and i'm out in the vineyard praying for more rain. as hot winters continue to dry up agriculture in california, pennyroyal says there is a need to change the biology of plants, something he is already in the process of doing. i think what this signals is a change the more resiliency there is the biology, the more resiliency

there is therefore an irrigation infrastructure of which the crop is dependent. it is not just about destroying crops -- it is about disrupting the infrastructure, the support. i suspect that makes it a slightly more manageable challenge than the countries where irrigation is natural and the destruction of the actual crop itself is required on an annual basis. >> irrigation era structure -- irrigation infrastructure -- poppy fields right up to the afghanistan'shat will cut their way through, then there is the base. so we are sending the mixed messages given our lead on eradication of poppies, would you not agree, and allowing poppy fields to grow right up to the very edge of our base? >> i think we have already acknowledged with the benefit of hindsight allowing any kind of cover, whether the settlement, crops up to the fence is not good practice and they were eradicated. a -- on hoppehave eradication. >> try to get rid of it as quickly as possible. the government -- it is the provincial government's lead and something he takes a great interest in. i have discuss

there's a drip irrigation system to deliver the water with 98% efficiency. but due to the district's need to save every drop to purify and send to muni cipal customers, he and 100 other customers will lose their supply. >> everyone is nervous. what's next? we can't grow anything without water. >> reporter: this is where the farm gets its water supply from the santa clara valley water district. come may 1 that water supply goes away. >> this impacts everyone. >> reporter: marty grimes with the santa clara valley

what i would envision is looking at alternative-irrigation practices, alternative-fertilization practices, alternative-cultural practices that keep most of the nutrients in the root zone, where the plant can use them. on a watershed basis, there are more vulnerable and less vulnerable areas of landscape. if you want to grow corn in your watershed, there will be better places to grow corn and worse places to grow corn. if you want this many people in your watershed, there are better places to have urban centers than others. so, i think it'll be a balancing act, but what we hope to do is be able to understand the trade-offs because to have no impact, there would have to be no humans. and there's no optimum solution, but there's a sort of a trade-off curve where, in the end, people have to decide what kind of world they want to live in. funding for this program is provided by annenberg media. for information about this and other annenberg media programs, call... and visit us at... funding for this program was provided by... around the world lie the ruins of once grand civilizations. in color

farmers will get no irrigation water delivered from federal or state water projects this year. they are calling for changes in federal environmental laws and construction of new reservoirs. the house of natural resources committee was meeting inside the capital about the state's drought prices. >>> why california faces a severe shortage of doctors. >> how wikipedia could get 21st century students to do some old school homework. >> good evening to you. the 6:10 sailing of the golden gate ferry is just about to head back to san francisco. can the weather get any nicer? 73 degrees in sausalito. do we stay warm? do we stay sunny? do we stay dry? or is rain in the forecast? i'll answer those things for you coming up in about 8 minutes. >> and how dangerous wildfires can be sparked by golf clubs. ,,,, bulldog: look at that! $300 off serta perfect sleeper and sealy posturepedic. plus, free delivery. the red tag means you save more green during mattress discounters red tag sale. ♪ mattress discounters emerged as a castro valley n was charged with killing his wife. feng m >>> new tonigh

. >> it was her irrigation system. >> it was a very large leak >> actually a thousand gallon a day megaleak i was shocked, i had no idea. >> rachel garza found a leaky faucet that'll need a plumber attention. 's attention >> they don't make a sound and you cannot see the leak. >> we tried to conserve the water we use in the house and out in the yard and we had our own well dug to cover most of our irrigations but it has got dry. >> sure enough, he found a 40 gallon under water leak. >> homeowners can monitor it online. >> we can find it exciting. oh, oh my god, we can help you. we got something and we can help you lower your bills. >> i love that, i am excited about it. >> an estimate leak loss of 10 gallons a day per customers and in a year that's more than a billion gallon and enough to put on a fish tank on a full size of a football field. >> when you see those patterns it allows us to say, oh there is a potential leak out there. >> finding leaks are a top priority because customers cutting their use back to the level of the three drought that begins in 1987. tom veterans vaca , ktvu cha

the school uses to irrigate the campus. >> supervisor dave cortese is trying to find the money to hire more firefighters. the mayor says there is not enough money. the rotary club decided to resurrect the annual 4th of july spectacular. mystery surrounding disappearance of a malaysia airline plane got deeper. saying it's data shes it was far off course. one official says the plane was believed to be flying low before it disappeared. >> dianne feinstein is accusing the cia of violating law and she says the network is established to allow the committee to investigate allegations of abuse. feinstein says the situation amounted to attempted intimidation of investigators. she's not taking it lightly. >> i have great concerns that the cia search may have violated the separation of powers and principals >> the director denying the allegations. feinstein confirmed an investigation has been referred to the justice department for possible criminal prosecution. >> well, it's almost tax time. if you have questions, we have answers. >> our hot line will be open until 10:00 tonight so give us a call

. >> it's usual hi used in irrigation, household front yards and highway system irrigation and commercial buildings and we're finding that many commercial buildings want to use recycled water for building cooling. >> reporter: but it goes beyond water infrastructure projects. it will pay for food and housing for farm workers and others impacted by the drought. >> nearly two dozen pg&e customers are without power tonight. a large tree snapped a power pole in half. the downed tree blocked hutchison road before crews could remove it. power is expected to be back on by midnight tonight. >>> high winds to blame for this overturned modular home today. it happened just before 3:00 p.m. near north greenville road. the road was closed for two hours. no one was hurt there. >>> a portion of road in santa cruz will remain closed after a sinkhole opened up. public works crews shut down the street to assess the damage. one resident said that erosion has been a problem for years. >> through the years the places to park have eroded away. there are a lot of places where it is undercutting. >> eastbound we

. >> it was her irrigation system. >> it was a very large leak >> actually a thousand gallon a day megaleak i was shocked, i had no idea. >> rachel garza found a leaky faucet that'll need a plumber attention. 's attention >> they don't make a sound and you cannot see the leak. >> we tried to conserve the water we use in the house and out in the yard and we had our own well dug to cover most of our irrigations but it has got dry. >> sure enough, he found a 40 gallon under water leak. >> homeowners can monitor it online. >> we can find it exciting. oh, oh my god, we can help you. we got something and we can help you lower your bills. >> i love that, i am excited about it. >> an estimate leak loss of 10 gallons a day per customers and in a year that's more than a billion gallon and enough to put on a fish tank on a full size of a football field. >> when you see those patterns it allows us to say, oh there is a potential leak out there. >> finding leaks are a top priority because customers cutting their use back to the level of the three drought that begins in 1987. tom veterans vaca , ktvu cha

the irrigation and drinking water for 1.5 billion people is nothing to laugh about. here is the conclusion. the entire himalayan climate is changing. but how climate change will impact specific places remains unclear, said the committee that wrote the report. the eastern himalayas and tibetan plateau are warming, and the trend is more pronounced at higher elevations. models suggest that desert, dust and black carbon, a component of soot, could contribute to the rapid atmospheric warming, accelerated snow pack melting and glacier retreat. the senator also mentioned the cost of a carbon fee. just to make the record completely clear, i would propose a carbon fee whose every dollar of revenue, whose every dollar of revenue was returned to the american people. if as a result of a carbon fee you end up paying more on your energy bill somewhere, every dollar of that should come back to the american people. it could come back in the form of a check to the head of a family. it could come back in the form of lower tax rates. it could come back in a variety of ways, and i hope

it turned out to be her irrigation system. >> various places it was coming out. it wasn't obvious. >> reporter: a thousand gallons a day leak. >> i was shocked. she found a leaky faucet that will need attention and using a pill she found the most common leak. a leaking toilet. >> they don't make a sound. you can't see it. >> reporter: they also got notice they had big leaks. >> we tried to conserve the water we use in the house and yard. we have our own well dug to cover most of the irrigation but it has gone dry. >> reporter: he pond to 40 gallons -- found a 40 gallons an hour leak. these homes are testing smart water meters they can monitor online. >> we find it exciting. we got something, we can make your bills lower. >> i love that. i am excited about it. >> reporter: they estimate an average leak loss of 10 gallons a day per customer. in a year that is a billion gallons. >> when you see the patterns, it allows us to say there is a potential leak. >> reporter: smart water meters remain in the testing phase but they will get popular. reporting live, tom vacar,

seeing a warm temperature this weekend that's important for water use and hope people keep their irrigation in the off. based on our current forecast for hetch hetchy the july storage will be above 1977 that's one of the lowest continues for hetch hetchy so we indicate on the hill we'll be above the 19 condition. we need another 19 inches to fill the hetch hetchy and that's 6 nature inches of precipitation but we 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.

there's alsthere is also withinm bill an opportunity to take a look at the irrigated and vomit irrigatedolicies. >> thank you mr. chairman. i would like to shift to an issue. i'm a returning peace corps volunteer and certainly interested in the food for peace program. i've seen a shift in the world's ability to deal with food delivery. what we essentially have is a feeding program to help impoverished areas but it's been very awkward because we brought all the food from the united states on the carriers all the way to these foreign countries. the new effort is to try as we are domestically trying to empower the nationals to develop their own ability to have a viable agrarian economy. i recently got back with some members in the strongest companies in latin america. the biggest in the second most populated and strategically necessary for the world of security because it's position in the horn of africa. ethiopia is a huge agrarian country with a lot of programs including peace corps. what shocked me is we are still needing all sources of the federal aid $300 million to that one country be

they built these enormous irrigation systems. the canals were brilliantly engineered to carry water. they were enormous in size. canals, 14 metres wide and five metres deep, irrigated in an area of 500,000 tech tears, supporting a population of 80,000 people. then, about 600 years ago, hohokam's civilisation collapsed. the reason - water, or lack of it. at the university of arizona, the largest collection of tree ring data tells the story. scientists studying wood can tell how weather patterns shifted with disastrous results for people. >> it was one of the most serious droughts in the last 2,000 years, affecting the people quite badly. >> there's a drought going on now. do we have any idea whether we are at the beginning, at the end or towards the middle >> no, not until is over. >> how long could it last? well, the one in the 1500s lasted almost a century. global climate change caused by modern human activities will make future draughts worse, says geoscientist. >> the drought in calf , in australia, in the middle east. the dro

there will be handy cap paths, tennis and basketball courts, modern irrigation and an electrical system. >> the fact you have a place for kids and residents coming together pulling it together is spirit of community. >> half of the 16 acre park will remain open at all times during the renovation. >>> three people are lucky to be alive tonight after an avalanche buried a home in snow and debris. dozens of residents dug for an hour before pulling an eight-year-old boy from the deep snow and then a retired university professor was able to survive in a small air nokt a chimney. his wife was found still in critical condition. >> i was sitting watching tv and felt the rumble and looked out side and the house was gone. >> a snow boarder in a restricted area triggered that slide. authorities warn the mountain snow remain unstable. >>> right now we want to check in what is going on around here with our weather. >> we have had a lot of snow here over the last few days. snow totals for this last storm going back to friday morning through right now about 40 inches of new snow. about 171 inches sinc

. >> recycled water is usually used in irrigation, so household front yards, many highways, the ?led wattr for building cooling. >> reporter: the drought relief -m infrastructure projects. tens of millions of dollars wilç also pay for food and housing for farm workers and other people directly impacted by the drought. lillian kim, abc 7 news.n47v(júÑ >>> nearly two dozen pg&e customers in los gatos are stil; a large tree crashed to the ground yesterday afternoon snapping a power pole in half. the downed tree blockedog( hutchinson road before it could be removed. power is expected to be restored by 3:00 this afternoon.3rño >>> coming up, the escalating situation in ukraine, what secretary of state john kerry says could happen if russia intervenes with its military. [man] no one told her,right? [son]hi! [mom screams] ♪ [ male announcer ] spring is calling. get sta-green fertilizer now just $8 at lowe's. ♪ ñ get sta-green fertilizer now just $8 at lowe's. is that millions of people will qualify for financial assistance. it's important to remember that the lower your annual income, t

step is turning waste water into much higher quality water that has less salt and can be used for irrigation, landscaping and cooler towers for the high-tech industry. first, the water goes through a micro filtration process to get rid of bacteria and then goes through a high-tech reverse osmosis process that eliminates salts and pharmaceuticals. the final step is ultra violent disinfection which inactivates any remaining viruss and bacteria. >> because our future will rely on facilities like to this meet water needs. >> reporter: the 70-million dollar center can process eight millions a day that can reduce reliability on imported water during the drought. >> it's thinking about greater reliability and resilience in the water supply system. >> reporter: the hope is, if it can be used to irrigate farms, it can one day embrace the idea waste water can safely be turned into drinking water. it may take awhile to get the public to embrace this concept, so the next step may be taking this treated waste water, combining it with the existing ground water and then eventually using that as our drinkin

when the project is completed you'll find no courts and restrooms and designated areas like irrigation improvements and access. because the community relies on the park the first phase is construction on the nestling part of the park then when the north side is reopened the south end which the playground will close if you understand that. we're very existed for the groundbreaking and the incredible renovations to come. registration for awe our spring classes begins march first and our programs remain some of the most affordable featuring hundreds of classes like at summer tree and mountain biking and an art and successor camp in partnership it's a poetry in partnering folks can registration on online or invest sf dot park. thanks to supervisor cowen the green legislation passed at the board of supervisors on february 4th. the legislation essential extends the benefit district to mixed use neighborhoods. previous legislation had only allowed commercial districts but now residential neighborhoods can participate in this tool. and it is going to be a great tool for park groups to support

>> it's a dedicated delivery system for recycled water to use for irrigation. >> reporter: so you'reelling me here in pleasanton for the first time ever we are going to start using recycled water? >> yes. >> reporter: wow. how do we use this? >> we are going to be bringing it in from the treatment plant next door and irrigating our soccer fields here at val vista park. >> reporter: he was in healdsburg recently and i know they are trying the same program. if you go to any neighborhood and see this, what does it mean? >> it means it's recycled water. >> reporter: any community from dublin to healdsburg to livermore to napa? >> yes. >> reporter: we are going to be watering our soccer fields with recycled water. >> it begins in the next couple of weeks and saving 32 million gallons a year by using this recycled water instead of potable water. >> reporter: 32 million per gallons a year in pleasanton. >> yes. >> reporter: are other communities doing this? >> we are actually the last to implement it. >> reporter: wahoo, pleasanton! if you want to know more about the recycled water program

claims the agency should not allow stanford to take water from the damage which the school used to irrigates and golf course. >> the mint is marking the start of baseball season by throwing a curve at collectors. this new coin commemorates the national baseball hall of fame 75th anniversary with baseball on one side and glove on the other. the designer was at the mint yesterday to strategic the first coin. the southern california artist used an old family glove and her childhood baseball memories to come up with the design. >> there are so many baseball fans. it is not just the sport but about getting together and thinning of getting back to our troops and ride -- pride in our nation. >> coin is the first ever in the unnot to be flat curving in on the glove side and out on the ball side. >> perfect. just the way it should be. >> it is too excited with the winds and the fire. >> it is still windy and mild out there. 15 miles per hour for winds in napa and concord and san carlos at 14, and 13 in san jose, and 26 in oakland and 28 in san bruno with the air bone dry. no clouds, nothing showing

irrigation systems it's going to be vulnerable. >> caltrans says it's working with police and fortifying infrastructure. >> working with dealers to make sure if anything is stolen or if suspect it might be stolen that they take that motive away from the thieves. >> caltrans will have to the pumps ready. >> urban search and rescue team had to go into the chilly water of coyote creek this morning around 5:30 this morning. >> and now, to the east bay checking on problem there's including a downed tree causing trouble. >> check out the creek here, residents say this rain runoff is very much welcome. pg&e crews dispatched across the east bay to repair lines pulled down by trees this, crew cleared out a large oak that fell during hard rain and wind here this morning. this crew made quick work of a tree, that fell acrossleading t the road, unpassable all morning. >> unfortunately had a group rescheduling because the tree came down when they would have been at the house. so... we won't have been able to bring them back down. >> the house is a national historic site. this plastic bag factory got

of hazard trees and within electrician to address lighting initials our parks and the repair of irrigation systems that have been damaged and also an investment in the creation of an operation center for the department to facilitate staffs response in cases of emergency or disaster. our next priority is environmental sustainability and this budget fund 5 urban forestry staff and environmental signage for our parks. some additional maintenance staff a project to install low flow plumbing fixtures to save water. as well as some materials and supplies for our maintenance staff. we're proposing to invest 6 hundred and 45 thousand dollars in recreation and awe kwifkz promising program to init's families and children to become nor physically active finally we're proposing to invest in two new krourment and exam staff to hire gasped next year's and rec staff and all of our vacancies more quickly a new i t position for notation and technology including ability for the public to enact with our department and make services more efficient this is an ongoing process that has an opening fact like day c

a large commercial operation already using a state-of-the- art emitter irrigation system. be tough. >> it's possible. i don't know 20% but we could try. i mean, that's --that's all we can do. >> reporter: there are three levels of enforcements. level i is a written warning. level ii is a verbal warning. and then there's level iii. if the water district finds someone who is a chronic distribute water waster, is a potential of cutting their water off. in fremont, don ford, kpix 5. >> we are a month away from planting season. farmers have no idea how much water they are getting. rice harvest could be lower and fewer jobs will be available. in small towns the lack of water hurts everyone. >> all that money shrinks, it hurts everybody all the way from the chemical guys the cropduster, the mills, you know, all down the line. >> federal projections will be out next month giving farmers a better idea of what they can plant around june. harvest comes in the fall at which point we may see increased prices for rice. >>> some mcdonald's employees from the bay area are waging a legal w

. >> it's used in irfwags so household front yards, many highways, the irrigation system in front of highways and commercial buildings and many commercials want to use the recycled water for building cooling. >> reporter: tens of millions of dollars will also pay for food and housing for farm workers and other people directly impacted by the drought. lillian kim, abc 7 news. >> nearly two dozen pg&e customers in los gatos are still without power. the downed tree blocked hutchinson road before it could be removed. power is expected to be restored by 3:00 this afternoon. >>> high winds are blamed for this overturned modular home in livermore happened just before 3:00 yesterday afternoon near north greenville road. no one was hurt. >>> a portion of road in santa cruz will likely remain closed today after a heavy surf opened up a sinkhole. huge waves knocked out rocks from the sea cave and created the sink hole along west cliff drive. public works crews shut down the street to assess the damage. one resident said erosion has been a problem for years. >> there used to be places to park on

. >> use non-portal in the building flushing the toilets and irrigation and all that. >> ongoing thank you and i assume you're looking at things like mid block openings and creation of open space where possible to south park that's a pollutant area between the builds and where we have land. >> yeah. in fact. >> the ordinances can cooperate and create open spaces. >> most definitely i believe many the neighborhood connectivity and what it does to create a place and space for walkable be neighborhoods. >> thank you. >> thank you commissioner sugaya. >> yeah. a general question. the underlying plan was there that you take a look at that did you accept everything in the central corridor plan does the project challenge those? i'm asking because i'm not a big fan of the project itself >> i think in many ways it compliments it. there's a district sustainability chapter but that laid out the eco district and the task force report is to help inform the policies that will be created for that charter hates yet to be written. the intent is to now get working on the sustainability chapter that can