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SFPUC outlines menu of regional and local projects as it begins water-supply planning
Summary
Assistant GM Steve Ritchie described water-supply goals, a $20 million planning allocation and a menu of projects including groundwater banking, regional recycled and purified-water projects, conveyance alternatives and storage options; staff emphasized long timelines and contract obligations to wholesale customers.
The commission received an update on water-supply planning from Steve Ritchie, assistant general manager for water, who outlined level-of-service goals adopted in 2008 and a recent $20 million capital allocation to begin planning efforts.
Ritchie said the department's primary obligations are to meet contractual wholesale commitments and in-stream flow requirements, and he described a portfolio approach to meet those obligations: groundwater banking and interbasin collaboration on the Tuolumne and Stanislaus rivers; regional recycled-water projects with…
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