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22 <br />of the Finance Department is responsible for all City utility billing and collections, as well as <br />processing connection and facilities fees. <br />Service Area <br />The Enterprise serves most of the corporate area of the City and portions outside the <br />corporate limits, including Cañada College, portions of the City of San Carlos and the Town of <br />Woodside, and the unincorporated Emerald Hills area of the County. The Enterprise’s service <br />area presently covers approximately 14 square miles. Service is provided to areas between <br />Highways 280 and 101, and between Whipple Avenue and Marsh Road in the area east of <br />Highway 101, and in the Redwood Shores development. <br />As of June 30, 2024, the Enterprise served domestic water through approximately 24,680 <br />active service connections. Residential connections account for 86.7% of the total service <br />connections. Commercial connections account for 9.5%. The remaining 3.7% are mostly fire <br />connections, and some municipal and institutional connections. The Enterprise’s service area is <br />substantially built out, with a relatively stable customer base. See “– Customer Base” below. <br />Water Supply and Demand <br />Background. The water supply delivered to the 27 Wholesale Customers (including the <br />City) by the SFPUC originates from two primary sources (i) the Tuolumne River through the Hetch <br />Hetchy Reservoir and (ii) local runoff into Bay Area reservoirs in the Alameda and Peninsula <br />watersheds. Water originating in the Hetch Hetchy watershed represents the majority of the water <br />supply available to the Regional Water System. On average, the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir provides <br />approximately 85% of the water delivered and runoff into Bay Area reservoirs provides <br />approximately 15% of the water delivered through the Regional Water System. Water produced <br />is dependent on precipitation and the ability of the SFPUC to regulate watershed runoff. Water <br />collected in Hetch Hetchy is delivered by gravity to Bay Area reservoirs and users. The remaining <br />water supply is drawn from local surface waters in the Alameda and Peninsula watersheds. The <br />Regional Water System was constructed and is owned by the City and County of San Francisco <br />(the “City of San Francisco”) and is operated by the SFPUC. The Regional Water System <br />delivers approximately 65% of its water to Wholesale Customers in Alameda County, Santa Clara <br />County and San Mateo County. The Wholesale Customers pay for the Regional Water System in <br />proportion to their purchases of water. <br />Water Supply Agreements. The City has entered into two related contractual <br />arrangements with the City of San Francisco, on behalf of the SFPUC in 2009, both of which have <br />25-year terms beginning on July 1, 2009 (with provisions for two conditional five-year extensions): <br />(i) the WSA, which the City co-signed with 25 other suburban water purchasers, and (ii) an <br />individual “Water Sales Contract” consistent with the WSA but containing terms specific to the <br />City and Enterprise. Under the WSA, the SFPUC is responsible for maintaining the Regional <br />Water System and delivering water that meets all applicable drinking water standards (including <br />all treatment necessary to meet those standards). The WSA also requires the SFPUC to complete <br />the Regional Water System Water System Improvement Program (“WSIP”). Under the WSA, the <br />City’s Individual Supply Guarantee (“ISG”) is 10.93 million gallons per day (“MGD”) on an annual <br />average basis (or approximately 12,243 acre feet per year (“AFY”). <br />Water Supply Assurance. The WSA assures a maximum supply of 184 MGD collectively <br />to group of the suburban purchasers, including the City. The City’s perpetual water supply <br />assurance is 10.93 MGD, or approximately 12,243 AFY. In case of rationing due to drought, the <br />8.A. - Page 36 of 255 <br />664