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<br />6.2A <br />Page 58 <br /> <br />continued reliability, and developing it as part ofa larger, integrated water security strategy, is <br />critical to the Bay Area's economic security, competitiveness and quality of Hfe. <br /> <br />2. The SFPUC will be able to deliver basic service to the three regions in the service area <br />(East/South Bay, Peninsula, and San Francisco) within 24 hours after a major earthquake. <br /> <br />3. The Water system will maintain a high quality water system. <br /> <br />4. Improvements are designed to nleet current and foreseeable future federal and state water <br />quality requirements. <br /> <br />5. The WSIP will increase delivery reliability and improve the ability to maintain the water <br />system, providing operational flexibility to allow planned maintenance shutdown of individual <br />facilities without intenupting customer service, operational flexibility to minimize the risk of <br />service interruption due to unplanned facility upsets or outages, and operational flexibility and <br />system capacity to replenish local reservoirs as needed. In order to implement a feasible asset <br />management program in the future that win provide continuous maintenance and repairs to <br />facilities, the regional water system requires redundancy (i.e., backup) of some critical facilities <br />necessary to meeting day-to-day customer water supply needs. Without adequate redundancy of <br />critical facilities, the SFPUC has limited operational flexibility in the event of an emergency or a <br />system failure, as well as constraints on conducting adequate system inspection and maintenance. <br /> <br />6. The WSIP will achieve a cost-effective, fully operational system, ensuring cost-effective <br />use of funds, maintaining a gravity-driven system. <br /> <br />Having considered these benefits, including the benefits discussed in Section I above, the <br />Commission finds that the benefits of the Project and the WSIP outweigh the unavoidable <br />adverse environmental effects, and that the adverse environmental effects are therefore <br />acceptable. <br /> <br />48 <br />