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SFPUC and resilience office outline multi‑billion dollar plan and financing options for emergency firefighting water; supervisors direct formal response to 2019
Summary
SFPUC staff told supervisors that build‑out of the Emergency Firefighting Water System could cost $2–4 billion depending on schedule, and ORCP presented financing options including GEO bonds, developer contributions and community facilities districts. The committee directed the Clerk to file responses to the 2019 Civil Grand Jury report and forwarded the matter to the full Board.
At a June 1 hearing the Government Audit & Oversight Committee considered the 2019 Civil Grand Jury report that urged expansion of San Francisco’s Emergency Firefighting Water System (EFWS). Katie Miller, Director of Water Capital Programs for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, summarized work since 2010 — pump station and pipeline improvements, new cisterns and fireboat manifold upgrades — and noted SFPUC planning studies carried out in 2021 and 2022.
Miller said the EFWS 2050 planning study produced a high‑level build‑out estimate of about $2…
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