it was the vague language in the 1950 resolution that set the stage for creating lake merced as a city origin. the puc started acting as though it was fully in charge by embarking on an ambitious watershed planning process that ultimately resulted in the lake merced watershed report. the watershed report dealt extensively with recreational activities. the lake merced taskforce justifiably assumed that the two agencies would eventually follow the suggestion of the board of supervisors, and put san francisco puc fully in charge. it was partially based on that assumption that the lake merced task force and voted to disband on july 2009, believing our work was done. when the water should report -- when the wathershed -- watershed report was done, the board of supervisors resolution was to transfer per responsibility for management back to the puc. >> good afternoon. i am the founding member of the lake merced taskforce, and a former chair. i am 13 years of the advocacy board. i got interested as a geologist. i want to command staff for the great work in getting us here. they are a credit t

merced. historically, they have gone down as a result of drought and groundwater pumping. the city had been working with various golf clubs in the area, and environmental stakeholders, to come up with solutions. one option was to take golf courses off of the ground water pumping, and move into waste water. that has had a salutary effect. we are working on the flood control project. the vista grande project is encompassed by the yellow- outland areas there. at the top, that little dip in the middle is where lake merced starts. in effect, we have cut off like merced from all the water that drains to it. the daly city chunck echoes out into a tunnel into the ocean. none of it goes into lake merced anymore. on the san francisco side, we have cut off the san francisco drainage. and we wonder why the lake levels go down. even my 17-year-old can figure that out. one of the things we are working with is a project represented in large part by the blue line. it would take water from the watershed and run it through a treatment wetland area, and then through a structure of some kind, to be de