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UAC reviews draft 2025 Urban Water Management Plan; commissioners, public press SFPUC assumptions
Summary
Staff previewed Palo Alto’s draft 2025 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP), which uses SFPUC-supplied multiple-dry-year supply projections; public commenters and commissioners urged independent scenario work and clearer documentation of SFPUC’s ‘‘design-drought’’ assumptions and requested more peer comparisons before final council action.
Palo Alto staff presented a preview of the draft 2025 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP), a state-required planning document that must be updated every five years and is needed to maintain state loan and grant eligibility. Staff emphasized that the UWMP follows California Water Code requirements and uses supply and cutback projections supplied by the wholesale supplier (SFPUC), including the SFPUC’s design-drought-based multi‑year cutback tables.
Key updates: staff said the city’s 2025 demand projections — developed through the Bay Area supplier consortium (BASA) process — are lower than the…
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