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PUC staff previews WESIP revisions: schedule slips, major project cost increases and risk options
Summary
Staff told the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission the Water Enterprise System Improvement Program is roughly six months later overall, identified cost increases on major projects (Calaveras Dam, Irvington Tunnel, Bay Tunnel), and presented options — higher escalation, a program contingency, or targeted scope cuts — while recommending staff post AB 1823 notice and return with final recommendations.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission staff on Wednesday previewed proposed revisions to the Water Enterprise System Improvement Program (WESIP), telling commissioners the program’s overall completion horizon has moved about six months and that several large projects are driving cost risk.
Julie Labonte, VSIP director, said staff’s updated schedules shift the program’s peak spending modestly but push the program completion from June to December 2014 under the revised baseline. Labonte told the Commission that eight projects were accelerated, 22 were largely unchanged and 14 were extended by more than three months.
Labonte identified three projects with significant cost increases — the Bay Tunnel (Bay Division Reliability Upgrade), Calaveras Dam and the Irvington Tunnel — and said the increases largely reflect unforeseen site and geotechnical conditions discovered after earlier estimates. On…
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