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06/08/2015 Francisco City residents plus 1.6 million Bay Area residents , including Redwood City residents, through contractual a greements . To meet anticipated demand, the SFPUC has set a performance objective of greater implementation of water conservation programs in the wholesale service area , including in Redwood City. e. According to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, a full bathtub requires about 70 gallons of water while taki ng a five minute shower uses 10 to 25 gallons of water. ( www.epa.gov/WaterSense/kids/showerpower.html ) Similarly, f ire departments use up to 10 times as much water to extinguish a home fir e as fire sprinklers would use to extinguish the same fire with firehoses . ( www.firesprinklerinitiative.org/advocacy - tools/fact - sh eets/myths - vs - facts.aspx#Myth%20activation f. The City’s Fire Chief reports that it takes significantly more water to fight a fire in a building without an Automatic Sprinkler S ystem than it does to fight a fire in a building with a sprinkler system. The City’s Fire Chief estimates that it takes approximately 1,500 gallons of water to fight a single apartment fire in a multi - unit building and only 50 gallons to control this same fire with automatic sprinklers. In the case of the two fires on Woodside Road in 2013 which involved substantial portions of the buildings, the City used approximately three million gallons of water. The buildings in both fires lacked A utomatic Sprinkler Systems . Had the buildings had Automatic Sprinkler Systems , the City’s Fire Chief estimates the City would have only used approximately 1,000 gallons per fire . g. Through conservation efforts and recycling programs, Redwood City is currently consuming less t han its contractual supply assurance. However, fighting fires takes a lot of water and water could be conserved during fire emergencies and events if more multi - unit buildings had automatic fire sprinkler systems. Such a reduction will contribute to the go als of the City’s Urban Water Management Plan, the State’s drought conservation regulations, and the SFPUC’s water conservation objectives. 5. Automatic Sprinkler Systems reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide other important benefits. a. FM Global, a lar ge business property insurer, and the non - profit Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition recently conducted a study. They studied types, quantity, and duration of air and water pollutants released from a home fire as well as fire sprinkler and firefighter water usag e, environmental impact from a burning household and finishi ng materials, environmental impacts from disposing of fire - damaged contents of a residence, and the carbon footprint associated rebuilding a burning home. The study included filming and analyzing two controlled burning homes, one with an Automatic Sprinkler System and one without. ATTY/ORD.410/FIRE SPRINKLER ORD. # 2413 REV: 0 6 - 0 2 - 15 PT FORMERLY MUFF # 705 Page 4 of 9