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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission 1155 Market St., 11th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel. (415) 554-3155 - Fax (415) 554-3161 |
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| GAVIN NEWSOM MAYOR E. DENNIS NORMANDY PRESIDENT RICHARD SKLAR VICE PRESIDENT ANN MOLLER CAEN ADAM WERBACH RYAN L. BROOKS SUSAN LEAL GENERAL MANAGER |
November 22, 2004 Mr. John Plummer Friends of Lake Merced 100 Santa Barbara Avenue Daly City, CA 94104 RE: Response to Comments on November 15, 2004 Letter Dear Mr. Plummer, I am writing in response to your letter dated November 15, 2004 about the Draft North Westside Basin Groundwater Management Plan and integrated water resources planning. The SFPUC makes every effort to engage the public in our outreach, education and planning efforts. For the North Westside Groundwater Basin Draft Management plan our efforts included not just public meetings, but the direct mail of the draft to several key stakeholders, e-mail notices and newspaper advertising. While we may have received only a few comments, the draft plan was made available for review for an extensive period of time. This draft plan will be part of a more comprehensive project, our Integrated Water Resources Plan, and will undergo additional review in the coming months. I encourage you and your colleagues to take full advantage of the opportunity for comment provided during this review period. In responding to your request for documentation, my staff performed their duties as required by the Sunshine Ordinance. Our records indicate that you were informed that 48 pages of documentation detailing the Groundwater Management Plan pubic process were available but you did not respond to our request to pay for the copies in advance of mailing, and thus the pages have not been sent. I appreciate hearing your concern that the Clean Water Program is not included in the SFPUC’s Integrated Water Resources Planning process. The SFPUC has heard from the community about the need for greater coordination and integration of the SFPUC’s various planning efforts and is addressing these concerns as follows: 1. Over
the coming months the SFPUC will prepare an Integrated Water Resources
Plan to identify combinations of water supply options that together
will meet San Francisco’s future water supply needs. Projects
that are currently in progress and receiving public input – such as the
Recycled Water Master Plan and the Ground Water Management Plan – will
feed into the integrated water resources planning project;
2. The SFPUC’s planning efforts for the Recycled Water Master Plan, Groundwater Management and CleanWater Master Plan are being coordinated through ongoing communication of the individual project managers, consultants and impacted departments; and 3. The SFPUC is working to integrate the Clean Water Master Plan project with storm water management issues, and will be looking into what role storm water management options might play in minimizing flows to the combined sewer system. Finally in response to your assertion that there was a recommendation made at the most recent PUC Clean Water Technical Advisory Committee regarded the injection of recycled water, we have read, the enclosed copy of the minutes of that meeting and find no record of such a recommendation. If you have any additional questions, please contact Suzanne Gautier, SFPUC Communications at [email protected], or by phone at 415 554-3296. Sincerely, (signed) Susan Leal General Manager Enc. Cc: E. Dennis Normandy, President, SFPUC Michael Carlin, Director, Planning Bureau Greg Bartow, Groundwater Program Manager |