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Supplies <br />Proposed addition: insert the following sensitivity table immediately after Table 20, with new <br />note (e): <br />Sensitivity <br />(proposed <br />addition) <br />2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 <br />Total RWS — <br />SFPUC Finance <br />Bureau (e) <br />— 182.1 185.2 190.2 193.9 <br />Total RWS — <br />Water <br />Enterprise <br />(Table 20) <br />196.62 197.52 202.43 208.12 215.10 <br />Difference <br />(mgd) <br />— 15.4 17.2 17.9 21.2 <br />(e) The SFPUC publishes two sets of RWS demand/sales projections: the Water Enterprise projections, <br />presented in the SFPUC's UWMP and reproduced in Table 20 above; and the Finance Bureau projections, <br />prepared annually for budgeting and rate-setting and published in the SFPUC Water Enterprise Financial Plan. <br />The SFPUC has stated that the Water Enterprise projections "represent an outside bound of whatever <br />demand will occur" and "will likely always be greater than actual demands," while the Finance Bureau <br />projections are "as close to actual as we can make them." Both are presented above so that the UWMP <br />records both the SFPUC's regulatory-planning view (Water Enterprise) and its budgetary view (Finance <br />Bureau), reflecting the ~21 mgd gap at the 2050 planning horizon. <br />Editor's note — Adding a Finance Bureau row beneath Table 20 does not replace SFPUC's regulatory numbers; it <br />discloses a second SFPUC-published number set that the SFPUC itself uses for budgeting. Both are SFPUC products, <br />addressing staff's stated concern that the UWMP must rely on SFPUC information. A 21.2 mgd gap at 2050 is material to <br />any downstream investment decision (AWS cost-share, rate setting, conservation budgets), and recording it in the <br />UWMP itself prevents staff and Council from being asked to reconcile the two figures only later, in a separate document. <br /> <br />────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── <br />Edit 3 — Section 6, Alternative Water Supply Program (p. 76) <br />Subject: quantify Palo Alto's potential cost exposure and condition the City's support. <br />Existing draft text (verbatim, UWMP p. 76, abridged at "…"): <br />In 2019, the SFPUC established the Alternative Water Supply (AWS) Program to identify and plan water <br />supply and storage projects and actions that increase the dry-year reliability of the RWS. Based on the 2045 <br />planning horizon that the SFPUC applied in its February 2024 AWS Plan, the SFPUC anticipates a water supply <br />gap will occur in future dry years. … Since the development of that plan, three projects have been deferred <br />(Daly City Recycled Water Expansion, Alameda County Water District-Union Sanitary District Purified Water, <br />and Calaveras Reservoir Expansion) and one project has been canceled (Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion).