our watershed or out? >> there are no mitigation banks in the peninsular region. we don't have an option to go to the mitigation bank and there are no voluntary sellers. there are some that have not been earmarked and targeted. the agencies directed us to have this project in the initial watershed. there are some frantic properties that we are exploring the timing of getting those in to control so that we can meet the requirements for permits was unpredictable and we worked with the agencies to identify projects that would allow us to make the schedules. >> thank you. any other comments? next item? >> presentation and possible action to approve the selection of ducks unlimited, award water apprize, water system improvement program funded agreement, a group of hasidic and county of san francisco and ducks unlimited. >> if we could have the overhead. this indicates where we are talking about in the south bay. this is an item for $135,000. near the bottom, there is a red circle which was the main terminal sit

this is a watershed problem. a watershed problem. lichte: the watershed encompasses many municipal boundaries and it doesn't know any local politics. narrator: in the pittsburgh system, 83 cities and towns use the same sewage treatment plant -- alcosan. so all 83 municipalities have to work together to address the problem. schombert: we know we have billions of dollars that will have to be spent over the next 15 to 20 years. you can't do that wisely when you have 83 separate government agencies making decisions. the municipal consent orders and the alcosan consent decree require that the municipalities participate in a long-term, regional wet weather control plan. narrator: the information gathered in the initial research phase of the wet weather control plan will inform the large-scale infrastructure overhaul. and, as this research moves forward, pittsburgh is also working with environmental groups that are cleaning up the watershed. woman: make that connection. man: like a mural on the side of a building? woman: $5.00 to get in. ma

do we have any puc staff that are working in the watershed region? >> yes, we do have a lot of staff at work in the watershed region. they identified margarey problek service can respond to. supervisor avalos: thank you. we can open this item up for public comment. >> i would like to inform the public at home that the water belongs to the first people. when the act was passed, rich folks from san francisco dammed it, and we enjoy this water. it is kind of paradoxical that we give money to the national parks service and to other entities to safeguard the watershed, but we do not take pains to conserve water. in fact, you supervisors, when you go to the restrooms, you flash good water -- flush good water with aout any conservation in sight. this is from the money that we pay for the water, the 4.2 million customers. let us be prudent, first to understand at least all this water from the first people. secondly, we failed to conserve water all these years. thirdly, to respect the first people. in the future, water will be like gold. it is not only right

this is not really a watershed acquisition. it is not part of our watershed. it is impact area.uld be interested in seeing how much is of this nature and how much of it would be in various watershed areas as far as what we are planning going forward. >> we are happy to provide that information, and we do have it. i want to thank you for your comments about the past investments that were made by the puc and want to echo this very quickly. it is really important to acknowledge the benefits. 16 years ago, that decision was made, and it is still providing benefits. it takes that long for the community and landowners to see something like this go forward, to see they can do it. we have been very fortunate overtime to have this whole area explode with opportunities. we are hoping to tell stories just like that on the lme the side. -- the alameda side. v>:it hask,+ to this point, but i am excited. presidenta&ÑiñçóÑi crowley: thal for answering our questions. there is a motion on the floor that has been item 15. all those in favor? ayes have it. [applause] >> item 16, discussion and pos

the bowling watershed is not a rich environment. we do regularly get snow fall and our highest elevation in there is about 2500 feet. what we do have is a dotted line showing our regular run off of the streams in the and the dark line shows projected what would happen without the snow fall. it's not particularly significant for our municipal supply. one of these reasons is for the late spring rain period. what we typically see is the snow fall that does shed is scoured out in late april and may site has a much bigger impact on our fish flows potentially. another thing the palmer study gave us was effect on our projected demand. you can see the higher line represents what we think would happen based on the climate change effect and that's 8 percent bump over norms in 2040. so a climate change enhanced version. the footnotes of this slide is since we conducted this study and this speaks to something chuck just mentioned their subjectively lower than when we first did this so that's an issue we're trying to understand how to incorporat

the bureau of management located opportunities within our watershed. the agency's use to those and found them suitable restoration projects. the nine locations support 6 progress including the damn replacement project. this illustrates how a site provides compensation for more than one project. goldfish pond provides compensation for four projects. we will include fencing to exclude cattle from certain areas including this pond. we would remove non native vegetation and allow this to restore around the edge to benefit the frog and salamander. also here is a solar panel and a water trough which would provide watering to the cattle. this cold fish pond will be heading a share and it requires rebuilding the embankment. shawn your this is the eroding word that water disappears. also at this location we are estimating up to 5 acres of seasonal wetlands and that is demonstrated by the dark green area in the graphic and tel. the habitat restoration team is working to identify other habitats. we are pursuing projects and identified by the fish and wildlife ser

but even separate systems pollute the watershed. in developed areas, concrete and other impervious services prevent water from naturally soaking into the land. as the rainwater moves over the roads and concrete expanse, it captures trash and invisible chemicals, sending them straight to the nearest waterway -- untreated. when engineers first designed america's water infrastructure -- the drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems -- they were some of the most advanced in the world. but the infrastructure is growing old. and population growth and development, particularly in urban areas, have made it difficult for original system designs to meet modern health standards and reliably satisfy demand. man: our water and wastewater systems really are engineering marvels. because it's buried, it's invisible to us, and we tend to take it for granted. that's a mistake. like any engineered system, it requires maintenance and periodic rehabilitation, and eventual replacement. it's so out of sight and so out of mind, that we don't reali

well, first we plan to use our work with local models for watershed and there's new models this year for the,ipc, these we think will be better to down scaling the global effects on to a more watershed effect scale. the rest of these things are informed by the work we did so these are not things we went out and set out to do specifically but in doing all these things now we do have what we learned from our climate change. to go through these, a new wholesale water sale and it's a significantly different back an and agreement. we capped the total amount of water obligated to our customers that's away we actually took control and gained some demand control over our previous a range mend and basically were a blienled. we're upping to address summer peak use and as we negotiate with the federal regulatory agencies and our compliance. we're assessing our ground resources and future reliability and resource and working renal in thely to set up interconnection and encourage partners to conduct study of their own and their starting to do that. i'm running out of time? one minute. so i'll con

the bowling watershed is not a rich environment. we do regularly get snow fall and our highest elevation in there is about 2500 feet. what we do have is a dotted line showing our regular run off of the strea

i know you can watch on television sometimes if it is late night, but just that map of our watershed -- it is amazing, and it should be out, and that could be some of the chart you do. that could be one of the things we think about the way people have contributed the history of it, but i think education is extremely important. i also again before we leave today for somebody has some figures. when we look at our bond, $4 billion here and $6 billion there, that is a lot of money. i think a percentage of that should come back to the community. everybody in the community should feel all that money they have spent that they are being paid for. there should be a bigger opportunity for education. i know you all had a program where you would go at one school in my district where people came, and people had to guess what they did. police came, and they talked about what you need to do to be a police officer, but the puc headed that program. it was really remarkable. more of that should be done in all of our schools. but you all really did it, and i do not know what you are continuing to do it

have we ever seen a watershed?always look for the watershed moments and the next year we're still looking for them. i don't know. i haven't seen them. have you? >> we may be too cynical for that question. >> maybe so. >> and i think too you have to see who the leadership is. you've got to see who the next governor of the state is and what message do they send about how we get out of the problems we're in. that's going to be a key thing i think. >> belva: well, we will have a new governor and partially a new legislature. so who knows what's ahead? well, that is about it. that's all the time that we have. but we'll continue the discussion next friday night, when we look at propositions 21 and 23 and bring you the latest on the campaigns and the candidates. so please remember that democracy only works if you as citizens, well, all of us, care enough to learn as much as we can and then to go out and vote. so read your voter's handbook. i plead with you. go to kqed.org/thisweek to tap into the kqed election resources. w

as a representative of the sentence cisco -- san francisco, i am concerned about watershed pollution. this ordinance, what i really need to understand is the empirical data. from what i've heard from the department of the environment, the collection done by the department has been very minimal. recently you heard that the united states drug agency has thousands of pounds of drugs in a day, with several other federal agencies that are involved in the collection of medicines because of suicides. as has been stated, this is a cause for us to look at this situation in different ways. what we will start doing is informally informing doctors and hospitals, pharmacies, of the source of their medications that are given to be very cautious. plus not just giving a lot of medications. many doctors prescribe medications. sometimes would cause. sometimes without cause. so, it is good for this city of san francisco to set up a resolution to encourage doctors and other sources to not give out a lot of medications unnecessarily. now, one of the issues that has not been discussed here is animal waste.

got resentment issues with him with rain and watershed. this is not looking down the road if you think about what we're saying which is you look at 40 years but today is what's going to tap right in front of us so 76, 77 scenario is probably in everybody's planning. the state require as submitle every five or six years how your making your investments and planning for it. it's not look long and plan today. >> i think we're more concerned about drought scenarios than year to year water supply. we have had tree rings and decade shifts in with tear shifts and so the australians have done a lot of work with the back to back droughts and they are now experiencing them so we're working with them on drought and run some risk consequence models to see what kind of investment does that mean. our problem is we get a hundred years of rain and then if you don't have long-term supply all the sudden you're in really a lot of trouble if you have not dealt with the drought consequences issues. >> portland is the same. we're supply limited the study does n

that means urban areas will necessarily be investing in flood management and watershed management. those are essential parts of the flood management and some water utilities have flood water management and some don't. that suggests there's a real opportunity for water managers to work together with flood management to receive double management and benefits. a lot of these flood management benefits have strategies rather, have the potential to supply benefits. we think they will perform greater in the future. the third time you've seen this slide. we know we'll ceo level rise. that means example, in the next slide, shows especially in coast areas. next. that means there is about lot of good news with regard to climate change if your a water manager. but a little good news is these are tools that we think will perform better in the future from a water manager's perspective. the next slide show s tools that will not be reduced in performance by climate change. waist management, local shower heads, ground water clean up. those are important tools that are relatively climate insensitive

about 15% of our water is locally generated in local watersheds, so that is the limit of what we can sell. 85% must go to a governmental non-profit. that is our limit. supervisor maxwell: i see here you mentioned san mateo county. is that the -- silver springs, is that where -- >> crystal springs reservoir. pretty much everyone in san mateo county uses hetch hetchy water. some cities have some wells, so they have some additional ground water. when you get down toward santa clara, they have other additional sources, so we provide about 9 million gallons a day. they get delta water. they get local water down there. hayward and some of the other places in east bay also get water from other agencies, but we are the primary provider for most of our faults. supervisor maxwell: do we have any community benefits programs? >> we are working with the bay area water supply and conservation agency on a number of things. they have their own water supply program that will give you rebates for toilets for washing machines, those kinds of things. we tend to do that in san francisco, and they tend to