san francisco every day. katie miller: we have about 200 miles of pipe that's over 100 years old. stephen: katie miller is division manager, overseeing water distribution at san francisco's public utilities commission. katie: san francisco has tight streets with a lot of expensive property, and water flows into basements, it floods houses, and can really, you know, not only be dangerous, but causes a lot of property damage. stephen: aging pipes are a problem in the south bay too. since 2010, san jose water company, a much smaller operation than east bay mud and san francisco water, has averaged 200 breaks a year. the average age on the pipes in san jose that break? more than 50 years old. tony: after the break, our investigation continues. jared: if we don't regularly update and modernize that infrastructure, you're gonna see massive failures. tony: massive failures the government wants to avoid, but can we afford it? insight from the experts next. it's tougher than ... foster farms chicken. but foster farms simply raised chicken... ... is 100 percent natural... ... with no antibiotics. gasp! do i look natural herb man? can i call you herb man? i'm trying to look natural. say something. why aren't

matters listed here constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of commission or public so requests and if so the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered a separate item. 8a, authorize agreement pro.0008 not to exceed $4 million and duration of five years. b, accept contract 2673r, approve modification no. 3, decreasing the contract by $478,716 and authorize final payment to the contractor. c, approve plan and accept cations and award contractor no. wd-2746 in amount of $4,316,950 to the lowest qualified responsible and responsive bidder azulworks, inc.. >> any items to be removed? >> item no. 10. >> 8a. >> i would like to remove 8c. so may i have a motion on 8b on the calendar. >> move approval. >> second. >> all of those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. now we'll discuss item 8a. >> 8a, i really just have a comment on it. and that is that this is a procurement, whereby virtue of there only be

the san francisco public utilities commission said it is hard to tell how many gallons were lost. >> we do not know yet, because we have to estimate when this started to figure out how much water we lost so at this point i cannot even give you a guess. >> a resident said that the same thing happened a week ago. officials say it was going to take crews another hour to clean the line. our the california public utilities commission will vote on proposals that could raise our electricity rates dramatically. one of the proposals will eliminate the more you use the more you pay rate and replace it with a flat rate. power providers stay low cost energy users, low energy users cost money because they do not use enough to pay for delivery. our bills could rise by do 10. >> opponents of the law to boost vaccination rateds among school children are planning to hold a protest in san francisco today. supporters of the no vaccine mandate rally at noon in the parking lot of the golden gate bridge to demand the repeal of the new law signed by governor brown early this week requiring all schoolchildr

michael himes, san francisco public utilities commission. i'm just going to supplement actually the remarks that executive officer freed made. i thought his comments were spot on. earlier today in response to request by the department of elections, our department submitted a letter addressing the potential impacts of the proposed ballot initiative regarding renewable energy. to highlight a couple points from that letter that sort is a addition to the points that mr. freed made. first a observation about the potential impact of the measure is that it creates a new definition of renewable green house gas electricity that is inconsistent with state law. the proposed energy clean right act addresses the issue by tying the terms clean green to definitions in state law. mr. freed also referred to the issue around roof top solar and thought he captured that well. additionally, the proposed initiative has the potential to increase cost to a cca program without necessarily providing additional environmental benefits. the issue here really is how narr

the san francisco public utilities commission authorized it which is in the board file and adopted august 12, 2014 and that's all i have on this item. >> okay. thank you mr. updike. no questions mr. rose. can we go to the report on item 10. >> yes mr. chairman, members of the committee. in the report we report that it's shown in table one which is on page 23 of our report but based on 10,455 square feet and the cost of acquiring the easement is listed and funding

i would like to call to session the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today's date is tuesday, july 14th 0 , 2015. roll call, please. the mic isn't on? is it on now? did everybody hear what i said? >> president caen? >> here. >> vice president vietor. >> here. >> commissioner courtney. >> here. >> commissioner moran. >> here. >> commissioner kwon. >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you. commissioners before you have the minutes of june 23, 2015. are there any additions or corrections? >> no, i will move approval. >> second. >> any public comment? all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. next item, please. >> item 4 is general public comment. >> i believe mr. decosta, are you to speak on item 4? >> commissioners my name is francisco decosta. and and i want you to know that i have done due diligence, attending many of your meetings before. i am pretty busy now, so i don't get too much time to come for the meetings. but as director of environmental justice advocacy, and as a representative of the first people, i want to address an im

at this point the san francisco public utilities commission says it is hard to tell how many gallons were lost. >> we don't know because we have to estimate when this started to figure out how much water was lost. at this point in time i really can't give you a guesstimate. >> reporter: where is it going? >> one resident tells abc 7 news same thing happened a week ago. officials say they finished repairs about noon today. >>> there is a user revolt on red it over the firing over director of talent. it is sometimes called the internet front page. it works like kind of an online bulletin board content organized into sections. taylor played a key role in the ask me anything section. when the news of her firing broke it was shut down and left other users to shut down more sections. taylor isn't commenting publically but sent a tweet thanking everybody for their support. >>> the internet has hit the breaking point. it has run out of ip addresses a unique code made up of four sets of numbers allowing devices to communicate. every possible combination has been assigned. not to worry, the sy

matters listed here constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commissionand will be acted upon by a single vote of commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of commission or public so requests and if so the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered a separate item. 8a, authorize agreement pro.0008 not to exceed $4 million and duration of five years. b, accept contract 2673r, approve modification no. 3, decreasing the contract by $478,716 and authorize final payment to the contractor. c, approve plan and accept cations and award contractor no. wd-2746 in amount of $4,316,950 to the lowest qualified responsible and responsive bidder azulworks, inc.. >> any items to be removed? >> item no. 10. >> 8a. >> i would like to remove 8c. so may i have a motion on 8b on the calendar. >> move approval. >> second. >> all of those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. now we'll discuss item 8a. >> 8a, i really just have a comment on it. and that is that this is a procurement, whereby virtue of there only be

the san francisco public utilities commission authorized it which is in the board file and adopted august 12, 2014 and that's all i have on this item. >> okay. thank you mr. updike. no questions mr. rose. can we go to the report on item 10. >> yes mr. chairman, members of the committee. in the report we report that it's shown in table one which is on page 23 of our report but based on 10,455 square feet and the cost of acquiring the easement is listed and funding was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. we recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. thank you mr. rose. colleagues any questions? we will move on to public comment. anyone wishing to comment on item 10? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang. we can take it without objection. madam clerk call item 11. >> item 11 requisition of the real property at 490 south van ness, the purchase price of $18,500,000. >> okay. we have the mayor's office of housing here. >> hell

the san francisco public utilities commission authorized it which is in the board file and adopted august 12, 2014 and that's all i have on this item. >> okay. thank you mr. updike. no questions mr. rose. can we go to the report on item 10. >> yes mr. chairman, members of the committee. in the report we report that it's shown in table one which is on page 23 of our report but based on 10,455 square feet and the cost of acquiring the easement is listed and funding was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. we recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. thank you mr. rose. colleagues any questions? we will move on to public comment. anyone wishing to comment on item 10? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang. we can take it without objection. madam clerk call item 11. >> item 11 requisition of the real property at 490 south van ness, the purchase price of $18,500,000. >> okay. we have the mayor's office of housing here. >> hell

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rather than turn the water off, san francisco's public utilities commission decided to keep the line pressurized, and the water flowing, even though a huge amount was washing down the hill and into a storm drain. >> i had to guess, it would be 15 million gallons. >> reporter: that's one-fifth of the daily water use for san francisco and much of the peninsula. if they had cut the water off on this broken main daly city san bruno, pacifica and the san francisco jail would have been dry. so they kept the line pressurized for hours. >> long enough to allow the wholesale customers to reconfigure their systems so that all the retail customers stay in clean water. >> reporter: the break in this pipe was caused by rust. the pipe was installed in the late 1920s, and a spokesman for the puc says there's 320 miles of old pipe that they are replacing at a rate of 15 miles per year. >> we have a very old system that we want to continue replacing more and more. and until we get to that point where we are in the state of good repair, you're going to see water main breaks. and that's part of running

still, the san francisco public utilities commission decided it would be much worse to shut the line down used by the san bruno jail. >> it would depressurize down the line so all communities that were down the pipeline would no longer have water. it's also hydrants on the corner of the streets. >> reporter: keeping the system flowing helps keep the drinking water safe for residents. >> if water gets depressurized, it has to get chlorineated again. >> reporter: in san bruno abc7 news. >>> now santa cruz police realize now that 8-year-old maddy middleton was dead before they were notified she was missing. this detail as investigators revealed how maddy disappeared and where she was murdered. we're live on river street where maddy and the suspect lived. david? >> reporter: people were searching for maddy for over a day, including here, where she lived at the tannery apartment complex. they found her inside of a recycle bin. police say they discovered the body after a second search of the complex where she had been playing outside. the body found deep inside a recycle bin in the garage a

still, the san francisco public utilities commission decided it would be much worse to shut the line down used by the san bruno jail. >> it would depressurize down the line so all communities that were down the pipeline would no longer have water. it's also hydrants on the corner of the streets. >> reporter: keeping the system flowing helps keep the drinking water safe for residents. >> if water gets depressurized, it has to get chlorineated again. >> reporter: in san bruno abc7 news. >>> now santa cruz police realize now that 8-year-old maddy middleton was dead before they were notified she was missing. this detail as investigators revealed how maddy disappeared and where she was murdered. we're live on river street where maddy and the suspect lived. david? >> reporter: people were searching for maddy for over a day, including here, where she lived at the tannery apartment complex. they found her inside of a recycle bin. police say they discovered the body after a second search of the complex where she had been playing outside. the body found deep inside a recycle bin in the garage a

it's one of the san francisco public utilities commission's biggest pipes. >> we got reports of water on the surface here and soon determined that it was one of our older pipelines our san andreas pipeline, built in the late 1920s. >> reporter: one mom who shot these pictures on her cell phone, she was amazed at what she saw. >> i saw a whole lot of water coming through this little canal, creek area and more than i've ever seen. more than el niÑo and i was shocked. >> reporter: the water has calmed down considerably. around 10:00 the water was raging and that would have presented a real danger if one of those kids have fallen in. still flowing at this hour. the immediately goal after the break was to reroute the water and switch over to other sources. >> customers in san bruno and in our region have not been effected to date and we don't expect that they will be effected. >> reporter: the problem is age, much of the pipeline is being upgraded. the section that broke has not been upgraded because of the area. >> it's so old that we've got to get around to the old spots and repair the p

it's one of the san francisco public utility commissions biggest pipe serving customers in millbrae and san bruno. >> we soon determined it was one of our older pipelines. our san andreas pipeline number two built in the late 1920s. >> reporter: one mom who shot these pictures on her iphone was dropping off her child at a summer camp in city park, and she was amazed at what she saw. >> i saw a whole lot of water coming through this little canal, creek area whatever this run off is. and more than i've ever seen. more than el nino and i was shocked. >> reporter: the water has calmed down considerably here in the afternoon but this morning at about 10:00 when a lot of children were here the water was raging. and that would have presented a real danger had one of those kids fallen in. the water poured all night but still flowing at this hour. the immediate goal was to rerout the water and switch over to other sources. that was a success. >> customers in san bruno and as far as i know in our region have not been affected to date and we don't expect that they will be affected. >> reporter: as

san francisco in a day. still the san francisco public utility commission decided it would be much worse to shut the line down used in san bruno and pacifica and by the san bruno jail. it would depressurize the system all the way down the line so all of the dmawnts were federal off the pipe lane would no longer have water. not only the home in terms of drinking water. all of the hydrant on the corner of every street. >>reporter: keeping the system flowing helped keep the drinking water safe for residents. if the water gets depressurize then yes the system has to be tell chlorinated again so you need the chlorine residual in the pipe to keep the water quality where it need to be. >>reporter: p uc said customers shouldn't expect an increase in the rates. water main break are covered by the water agency emergency fund l. this is abc 7 news. >>> east bay man pal utility district customers who replace grass with artificial turf to cop serve water will not be getting a financial brick. district board voted today to not offer rebate to homeowner who use fake grass over real grass. customers asked to considerate ince

. >>> the san francisco public utilities commission says repairs to a broken water pipeline on the peninsula should be completed by saturday. an estimated 15 million-gallons were lost when the huge transmission pipe ruptured monday night in the hills of san mateo county. the 54-inch pipe dates back to the 1920s. it is part of the hetch hetchy water system. officials say it had deteriorated over time. three water agencies on the peninsula have been experiencing low water pressure because of that. >>> our time is 6:17. let's get you out the door. sal everybody behaving at the toll plaza? >> yeah, it is slow there, though. we have a little bit of a backup which is not unusual for this time if you're trying get into san francisco. going to take you about 20 minute ifs you're driving a car that's not a car pool. car poolers are getting by a little quicker. no major problems getting into the city. we haven't had any problems, accidents or stalled vehicles reported on that span, and i keep watching it closely for you. we're also looking at the east bay commute. we have slow traffic coming in from t

i would like to call to order the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. [roll call vote] >> item 4, public comment. mr.do costa. >> commissioner, the last timei was here they were not here. some of our constituents steve lawrence i could name another eight or nine. they paid their dues. what it means to pay their dues in the old days, as i can remember, you did your homework. if your heart was in the right place. you did what was right to make things right. so now, i know people come here and they listened to the deliberations. but you commissioners should ask yourselves, how many of you that are here really know the history of san francisco. how many of those who are here participated in the workshops, the sewer assistance improvement projects. and what was said about them that made sense. not the little things that were said about legalities by those that were to take us to a better place. if you look at a shipyard. any time you look at a shipyard, it is a superfund site. if you look at a shipyard, you have a, b c, all that has been conveyed. now, you c

i want to call up karen cubic the wastewater enterprise program director at the san francisco public utilities commission. >> thank you. >> thank you all, thank you, supervisors. actually, today we have a presentation put together to be responsive to the board's request. i'm going to start with sarah. because we're going to talk about our stormwater design guidelines and the work we have done on a routine basis with every permit. so sarah will start and i will follow-up with our larger capital projects that are green. >> thanks, karen. thank you, supervisors for inviting us today to talk about green infrastructure. my name is sarah minnic and i'm pard of the urban watershed program at sfpuc. as karen mentioned we're going talk about program and policis before we talk about capital projects. our presentation will start with a defensive of what "green infrastructure" is and our approach and a little bit of what we have learned so far and how to do better in future? just is to quickly set the context for green infrastructure. "green infrastructure" is engineered systems that take advantage of natural proces

michael himes, san francisco public utilities commission. i'm just going to supplement actually the remarks that executive officer freed made. i thought his comments were spot on. earlier today in response to request by the department of elections, our department submitted a letter addressing the potential impacts of the proposed ballot initiative regarding renewable energy. to highlight a couple points from that letter that sort is a addition to the points that mr. freed made. first a observation about the potential impact of the measure is that it creates a new definition of renewable green house gas electricity that is inconsistent with state law. the proposed energy clean right act addresses the issue by tying the terms clean green to definitions in state law. mr. freed also referred to the issue around roof top solar and thought he captured that well. additionally, the proposed initiative has the potential to increase cost to a cca program without necessarily providing additional environmental benefits. the issue here really is how narr

the san francisco public utilities commission authorized it which is in the board file and adopted august 12, 2014 and that's all i have on this item. >> okay. thank you mr. updike. no questions mr. rose. can we go to the report on item 10. >> yes mr. chairman, members of the committee. in the report we report that it's shown in table one which is on page 23 of our report but based on 10,455 square feet and the cost of acquiring the easement is listed and funding was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. we recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. thank you mr. rose. colleagues any questions? we will move on to public comment. anyone wishing to comment on item 10? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang. we can take it without objection. madam clerk call item 11. >> item 11 requisition of the real property at 490 south van ness, the purchase price of $18,500,000. >> okay. we have the mayor's office of housing here. >> hell

michael himes, san francisco public utilities commission. i'm just going to supplement actually the remarks that executive officer freed made. i thought his comments were spot on. earlier today in response to request by the department of elections, our department submitted a letter addressing the potential impacts of the proposed ballot initiative regarding renewable energy. to highlight a couple points from that letter that sort is a addition to the points that mr. freed made. first a observation about the potential impact of the measure is that it creates a new definition of renewable green house gas electricity that is inconsistent with state law. the proposed energy clean right act addresses the issue by tying the terms clean green to definitions in state law. mr. freed also referred to the issue around roof top solar and thought he captured that well. additionally, the proposed initiative has the potential to increase cost to a cca program without necessarily providing additional environmental benefits. the issue here really is how narr

the san francisco public utilities commission authorized it which is in the board file and adopted august 12, 2014 and that's all i have on this item. >> okay. thank you mr. updike. no questions mr. rose. can we go to the report on item 10. >> yes mr. chairman, members of the committee. in the report we report that it's shown in table one which is on page 23 of our report but based on 10,455 square feet and the cost of acquiring the easement is listed and funding was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. we recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. thank you mr. rose. colleagues any questions? we will move on to public comment. anyone wishing to comment on item 10? okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang. we can take it without objection. madam clerk call item 11. >> item 11 requisition of the real property at 490 south van ness, the purchase price of $18,500,000. >> okay. we have the mayor's office of housing here. >> hell

san francisco in a day. still, the public utilities commission decided it would be much worse to shut the line down used in san bruno and pacifica. >> it would depressurize the system down the line. all the communities would no longer have had water. it's not only your homes and for the drinking water, all the high hydrants on the corners of every street. >> reporter: it keeps the drinking water safe for residents. >> if it gets depressurized, then the system has to be flor nated again. >> reporter: because the break occurred inside the park, it was able to flow into an existing creek and eventually into a storm drain leading into the bay. customers should not expect a fee hike. these kind of events are covered by the water agencies emergency fund. in san bruno abc 7 news. >>> a man accused of killing a police officer will have to wait another month to find out whether he will be sentenced to death. he was found guilty of murdering the officer with special circumstances. the penalty trial was going to begin this week but a juror is moving out of the state. a judge declared a mistrial. >>> police are stepping u

i want to call up karen cubic the wastewater enterprise program director at the san francisco public utilities commission. >> thank you. >> thank you all, thank you, supervisors. actually, today we have a presentation put together to be responsive to the board's request. i'm going to start with sarah. because we're going to talk about our stormwater design guidelines and the work we have done on a routine basis with every permit. so sarah will start and i will follow-up with our larger capital projects that are green. >> thanks, karen. thank you, supervisors for inviting us today to talk about green infrastructure. my name is sarah minnic and i'm pard of the urban watershed program at sfpuc. as karen mentioned we're going talk about program and policis before we talk about capital projects. our presentation will start with a defensive of what "green infrastructure" is and our approach and a little bit of what we have learned so far and how to do better in future? just is to quickly set the context for green infrastructure. "green infrastructure" is engineered systems that take advantage of natural proces

san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. >> this park is open. ♪ >> good afternoon. i like to call a meeting of the public utilities commission order. today is june 23 and currently please have the role called >> commissioner courtney, commissioner moran, mission or kwon emma and pres. -- is excused it in >> thank you. please. shift of item 3 the approval of the minutes of the approval of the minutes of june 9, 2015. shift it is there a motion to approve the minutes? shift of moved and seconded. >> comments on the minutes? hearing none, hearing none all those in favor say, aye.

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public utilities commission. andria borba, kpix5. >>> republican presidential candidate jeb bush is coming to san francisco tomorrow to hail an uber. it is a counter to hillary clinton. she criticized businesses that were part of the so-called sharing economy for driving down middle class wages. jeb bush's dad, george hw bush is back in the hospital tonight. the former president fell at his summer house in maine, broke a bone in his neck. a spokesman is telling us he is doing fine, but will have to wear a neck brace for a while. at 91 years old, george hw bush is our oldest living president. >>> a giant surprise on pluto tonight. kpix5 meteorologist paul deanno is here with the stunning new images. paul? >> just a speck in the sky for hundreds of years but tonight, scientists just got their first closeup look of pluto's surface and they were never expecting what they saw today. >> here is the image. here it comes. >> reporter: scientists were stunned. mountains made of ice water standing 11,000 feet high and spans 150 miles. principle investigator allen stern says the mountains are 100 million years old. >> i think that one image o