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SFPUC, BOSCO outline drought-allocation framework and banking; commissioners ask for transparency
Summary
SFPUC and BOSCO described a tiered allocation approach for drought (Tier 1: SF vs. wholesale share; Tier 2: allocations among wholesale customers), banking of unused allocations, and excess-use charges. BOSCO urged a simple, administrable formula and warned that agency contractual rights cannot be reallocated without consent.
Steve Ritchie, SFPUC assistant general manager for water, briefed the commission on the recently negotiated water-supply agreement with wholesale customers and explained how supplies would be allocated in shortage. Ritchie described a Tier 1 allocation that assigns San Francisco a percentage share of available supplies (that percentage varies with the level of rationing; staff cited roughly 35–38% to San Francisco depending on rationing level) and Tier 2 allocations that the wholesale customers would determine among themselves or that BOSCO could set by majority vote if the agencies cannot reach unanimous agreement.
Ritchie said the agreement allows "banking" of unused…
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