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PUC asks customers to cut water use 10%; regional wholesaler warns of Mountain Tunnel risk
Summary
General Manager Kelly asked Hetch Hetchy customers for a voluntary 10% reduction as storage and snowpack remain low; the Bay Area wholesale customer group BOSCA raised an urgent alarm that Mountain Tunnel lining degradation could cause a catastrophic outage and demanded contingency answers and timelines.
San Francisco — The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on Jan. 28 urged Hetch Hetchy customers to voluntarily reduce water use by 10% as staff tracked one of the driest periods on record and low snowpack conditions.
General Manager Kelly announced that he would ask customers of the regional Hetch Hetchy system to "voluntarily curtail their consumption by at least 10%" beginning Jan. 31, and that the PUC would coordinate with the mayor’s office and wholesale customers on outreach. Assistant General Manager Steve Ritchie told commissioners that reservoir storage was around 70 percent but that snowpack was low and that February‑to‑April precipitation would be critical to the outlook.
What that could mean: staff said the next monitoring steps will be weekly…
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