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SFPUC reports improved snowpack, projects up to 1,000,000 acre-feet under median scenario
Summary
SFPUC Assistant GM for Water Steve Ritchie reported that as of early February 2016 San Francisco has about 82,000 acre-feet available beyond irrigation district allocations and projected available water ranges from 520,000 (low) to 1.5 million (high) acre-feet; median case ~1,000,000 acre-feet which could refill reservoirs.
Steve Ritchie, SFPUC Assistant General Manager for Water, briefed the commission on drought-related water availability at the Feb. 8 meeting. He said the agency already had roughly 82,000 acre-feet available to the city above irrigation-district allocations and described three projection tracks for the water year: a low projection of about 520,000 acre-feet (which would put the city above 2015…
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