mr. ritchie. >> we have a number of speakers. i would ask him to line up, beginning with mr. allen, mr. morton, mr. murphy, and mr. addigan. >> my name is lerees. i do volunteer work for california child care in san francisco. in 2002, they hired me to be the program manager for lakers said. the reason they did is in 2001 the had brought an administrative complaint through the water board against the city of san francisco and around the lake, with regard to beneficial uses around the lake, linked to lower in water levels. this is an ongoing complaint. i am involved with it as a volunteer. as the program manager for lake merced, i joined an organization that started around 1999 the consisted of more than 30 stakeholder organizations, including this agency and other representatives of rec and park, for example. the city council supervisor member -- it was quite a large group of stockholders. we monthly had meetings and work on issues related to lake merced. we raise the money to improve lake merced. in the year 2006, we discussed with these agencies the potential of a puc taking over the

mr. ritchie is going to give us an update on what happened and what we're doing. >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm going to give an update on the crystal springs pipeline incident, which did occur the day after thanksgiving. we provided you a memo to net -- today, and i will briefly hit the highlights. the pipeline is shown on the map. it runs from down in hillsboro up to san francisco. it is one of five lines into san francisco, and the incident site itself is highlighted there. it is in the city of south san francisco, just a bit north of the airport. probably one of the things that is unique about our system is how spread out it is. in our particular case, this is where a wsip project was taking place, and there had just been a replacement of one of the connections at that location. on the 25th, there was a leak that was reported at 9:45 in that vicinity, so we have a timeline of that. initially, there was a small leak that grew very rapidly into a larger leak, and we are investigating the cause. i will talk about that in a little bit. the timeline shows it ta

mr. ritchie said, was going on. i grew up out there. it hits me right here. i would like to see us do something. i was glad that you were able to show up today. i was expecting that the recreation and parks department is getting kind of a raw deal as we sit here today. i also understand the motivation behind it. i want the record to reflect that i am torn because i think that there is a lot of recreational activities that could be taking place for the families and the use in the city at lake mercd . there is ample parking out there. the weather is incredible. the sunset over the life from the boat house is just amazing. we have to have long-term vision for that location. i see illustrations in the record. i want to remind the group that he the purpose of the mou is to define a framework of cooperation is between the puc and recreations and parts apartment as it pertains to the beneficial uses of lake merced. i was under the impression, not only that with the rfp has a related to the boat house project, we would be collaborating on that as well. i think that t

mr. ritchie. >> i am here today to talk about lake merced in all of its facets. basically as a brief overview, i am going to talk about the proposed lake merced management mou between the puc and park commission, the watershed reports, and specifics about the bauhaus, which is a particular -- about the boat house, in dealing with the lake or said water levels. here is a photograph of lake merced. three legs. south lake, the main body. northlake, which is kind of the park at the top. at the bottom is an area called in how -- impoound lake. it is separated off because of sewer facilities. it is our responsibility overall. this would update the puc resolution. it does not replace that revolution, but would define better our responsibilities, defining the rec and park responsibilities. the whole point is we defining the responsibilities so that expectations are clear for all to say. on the pc front, there is a laundry list of items about attracting collaboration with rec and park, really focusing on water levels, water quality. we monitor that to maintain and operate

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mr. moran: i want to join the chorus in commending chairman rogers and chairman simpson and our ranking member norm dicks and the phenomenal work of the appropriations staff on both sides. ritchie and shalonda have been working on this bill for the last several months, sometimes through the night but all the pros on the staff, led by dave, leslie, bill, they are pro, they all deserve special recognition. mr. speaker, this is a vast improvement over the interior and environment bill considered by the house in july. the agreement provides $1.7 billion measure the initial house allocation, $8.4 billion is provided for e.p.a., it's $1.3 billion over the house bill, it maintains level funding for the national parks service and restores funding for the science programs in usgs, land and water conservation fund programs are increasededly 22 million over last year's level and it's important to note we have restored funding for endangered species and critical habitat listings. subcommittee chairman mike simpson spearheaded a bipartisan effort in support of funding for native american programs. and as a result, the indian health service has increased i by 6%, important increases in educa

mr. moran: i want to join the chorus in commending chairman rogers and chairman simpson and our ranking member norm dicks and the phenomenal work of the appropriations staff on both sides. ritchie shalonda have been working on this bi for the last several months, sometimes through the night but all the pros on the staff, led by dave, leslie, bill, they are pro, they all deserve special recognition. mr. speaker, this is a vast improvement over the interior d environment bill considered by the house in july. the agreement provides $1.7 billion measure the initial house allocation, $8.4 billion is provided for e.p.a., it's $1.3 billion over the house bill, it maintains level funding for the national parks service and restores funding for the science programs in usgs, land and water conservation fund programs are increasededly 22 million over last year's level and it's important to note we have restored funding for endangered species and critical habitat listings. subcommittee chairman mike simpson spearheaded a bipartisan effort in support of funding for native american programs. and as a result, the indian health service has increased i by 6%, important increases in education, pu