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Commission asks City Council to send SFPUC-focused questions through BOSCA after reviewing one‑water plan
Summary
After reviewing the city’s one‑water vulnerability assessment, the Utilities Advisory Commission forwarded a letter asking Council to request that BOSCA and the SFPUC run sensitivity scenarios on demand and supply assumptions, and to publish the calculation behind the design‑drought return period.
The Utilities Advisory Commission voted 7–0 to forward two letters to the City Council related to regional water planning and the SFPUC’s assumptions for long‑term supply.
The commission’s water‑policy subcommittee prepared a four‑point letter addressing perceived problems in the City’s One Water vulnerability assessment, including concern that the study relies on a single, severe “design drought” and on an SFPUC‑supplied cutback scenario the subcommittee judged to need further validation. The commission approved forwarding that subcommittee letter, with an amendment to the report language about the…
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