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<br /> 1A~ J <br /> REPORT <br /> To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> From the City Manager <br /> November 8,2004 <br /> Subject <br /> "Best Estimate" of Redwood City water purchases in 2030 from the San Francisco Hetch <br /> Hetchy Regional Water System for planning purposes <br /> Recommendation <br /> By Motion: <br /> I. Find that - for San Francisco's planning purposes - a range of 11.6 to 12.6 million <br /> gallons per day (MGD), or 12,969 to 14,107 acre feet per year (AF/yr) is a reasonable <br /> estimate of the amount of water that will come from the San Francisco Hetch Hetchy <br /> Regional Water System to meet Redwood City's projected needs in 2030; <br /> II. Find that this "Best Estimate" is consistent with the 2003 Redwood City Urban Water <br /> Management Plan (UWMP) insofar as the current UWMP spans from 2002 to 2020; <br /> III. Find that the "Best Estimate" reasonably reflects City Council policy direction to date <br /> concerning local water supply and conservation; and <br /> IV. Authorize the City Manager to sign and submit the SFPUC Capital Improvement <br /> Program - Best Estimate submittal form. <br /> Background <br /> For the past 19 months, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) staff and <br /> consultants have been working with the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency <br /> (BAWSCA) staff and all member agencies to develop a model to forecast future water <br /> demands on the San Francisco Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System for the year 2030. <br /> The purpose of this project is to support the successful implementation of the SFPUC <br /> Capital Improvement Program (CIP) - and to repair / replace the Hetch Hetchy regional <br /> system. Project objectives for each of the 28 BAWSCA agencies: <br /> 1) Prepare total water demand projections for 2030, which incorporate anticipated <br /> water savings via plumbing code changes (defined as "passive conservation" in the <br /> UWMP); <br /> 2) Identify a range of reasonable conservation savings; and <br /> 3) Identify future purchases from the Hetch Hetchy Regional System for the year 2030 <br /> The SFPUC will conduct a two-track environmental review process for the regional water <br /> system CIP, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): A <br /> comprehensive "Programmatic Environmental Impact Report" (PEIR), and multiple, project- <br /> specific environmental reviews. Additionally, the Commission will be considering significant <br /> policy direction for PEIR development in the coming months, including water treatment, <br /> regional system demand and purchases, water system reliability, water supply reliability <br /> and environmental protection. The SFPUC will consider BAWSCA agencies' "Best <br /> Estimates" in the PEIR, however, it is important to note that the SFPUC has made no <br /> commitment to meeting some or all of the future increased needs as the "Best Estimates <br /> are submitted in November 2004. <br /> Page 1 of 3 <br />