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San Francisco committee pauses planned sale of AWSS spare parts, seeks more analysis of emergency water plans
Summary
After public and firefighter objections, the Government Audit and Oversight Committee continued its review of the Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS) and put on hold plans to auction surplus parts, requesting a fuller pipeline and operational analysis before any sale.
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee on April 7 continued its review of the city’s Auxiliary Water Supply System and asked the Public Utilities Commission to hold off on auctioning parts while officials complete technical assessments. Chair Aaron Peskin said the review was prompted by a March 13 newspaper report about an auction and stressed the need to reconcile what bond voters were promised with current practice.
Peskin said he wants the committee and public to understand the AWSS’s history and the disposition of parts purchased under a 1986 bond, adding that the PUC had voluntarily called off the auction after the hearing was initiated. “That sparked a curiosity on my part … about what happened with the ’86 bond money,” Peskin said, explaining the hearing’s purpose was to ask and answer those questions.
Dave Briggs, PUC local and regional water system manager, described the AWSS as a century-old, multifaceted system that now sits in a portfolio alongside cisterns and a…
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