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PUC hears Hetch Hetchy capital update; wholesale agencies press for written mountain-tunnel plan
Summary
Staff updated commissioners on Hetch Hetchy capital projects and splitting the mountain tunnel into three projects. Wholesale customers and BOSCA’s CEO pressed for written plans, schedule and legal guarantees to protect wholesale service-area customers in case of tunnel failure.
Commission staff presented the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power Enterprise quarterly capital improvement report and outlined a realignment of work on the mountain tunnel into three separate efforts: a bypass alternative, access improvements, and a full inspection and repair program targeted for 2017–2018.
Jeet Bajwa, deputy assistant general manager for infrastructure, said the mountain-tunnel work was being staged: “we have taken the mountain tunnel and made 3 projects out of it because they are…
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