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SFPUC: Hetch Hetchy near full as agency urges 10% voluntary water cut to avert deeper rationing
Summary
Assistant General Manager Steve Ritchie told the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission that reservoir storage stood at about 955,000 acre-feet, Hetch Hetchy was nearly full and staff will continue to press for a 10% voluntary demand reduction to avoid a potential 20% cut next year if drought worsens.
Steve Ritchie, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s assistant general manager for water, told commissioners on June 10 that the system’s total reservoir storage is about 955,000 acre-feet — roughly 65 percent of maximum capacity — and that Hetch Hetchy Reservoir was approaching full at about 98 percent.
Ritchie said roughly 493,000 acre-feet of that total are in water-supply reservoirs and that Waterbank — a regional storage facility the PUC uses operationally — was severely depleted at roughly 36 percent. He said the system currently’s storage “is a good reference point,” noting one full year’s demand at recent usage rates would exhaust…
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