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WSIP update: SFPUC reports 70% completion and $17.6 million forecast increase driven by Calaveras
Summary
SFPUC staff said the Water System Improvement Program (WSIP) is roughly 70% complete and that recent differing site conditions on the Calaveras project have increased the program forecast by about $17.6 million above the approved $4.6 billion budget; staff seeks budget transfer approval and said negotiations with the Calaveras contractor are near resolution on schedule issues.
Julie Labonte, presenting the Water System Improvement Program update, told commissioners the program was about 70% complete for the reporting quarter and approaching 75% completion. She reported that program forecasts were now about $17,600,000 above the currently approved $4,600,000,000 budget, with the largest drivers including the Calaveras project and other seismic and pipeline upgrades.
Labonte noted the program management reserve had a balance of $117,000,000 at the end of the reporting quarter but the commission had approved a transfer of that balance to the Calaveras Dam project at a prior meeting, leaving a zero balance in the overall reserve and prompting staff to seek Board Budget & Finance Committee approval the following day for the transfer.
"Our forecast is now $17,600,000 above the currently approved budget," Labonte said, citing Calaveras and cost impacts from differing site conditions. She told commissioners that staff had begun negotiation sessions with the Calaveras contractor and expected to either reach agreement or identify specific discrepancies by the end of the week.
Commissioners pressed for detail on schedule slippage for local water supply projects. Steve Ritchie, Assistant General Manager for Water, responded that some projects had encountered public opposition or required re‑siting (for example a Westside recycled water plant in Golden Gate Park) and that rebaselining of schedules was underway; he gave tentative target dates for notices and draft EIRs.
Labonte also highlighted program milestones — including substantial completion of several projects, award of a San Antonio backup pipeline contract (9% below engineers’ estimate) and the Bay Tunnel breakthrough — and said staff would present proposed final project revisions in April.
