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The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission gave its mid-year water supply has announced that the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System storage is at less than 65% capacity.
The water system storage is at 64.5% of maximum storage capacity and all available snowpack has melted, SFPUC officials said.
The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park can store up to 117 billion gallons of drinking water that is used for the Hetch Hetchy
Regional Water System that provides water for 2.6 million San Francisco area customers.
In what is one of the worst droughts in recent years, the SFPUC asked customers to reduce water consumption by 10% at the start of the year.
Since then, about 1.4 billion gallons of water have been saved, which is 17% of the SFPUC’s year-end goal of saving 8 billion gallons.
According to the SFPUC, if conservation trends continue there will be less of a chance of mandatory water rationing in San Francisco. In Pleasanton, the mandatory cutback of 25% remains in force.
SFPUC General Manager Harlan Kelly Jr. said that water rationing is still a possibility, “Every customer needs to redouble their conservation efforts so we can stretch water supplies into 2015 and beyond.”
A summer water conservation campaign has kicked off and in an effort to entice more saving, the SFPUC is increasing rebate amounts for replacing old toilets, urinals and washing machines starting in July.
Customers are asked to evaluate water consumption at home and work and try to take shorter showers, turn off running taps, run full loads in the dishwasher and washing machine, limit outside watering and other water-saving measures.
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I hope this does not mean they will be pumping more water than usual from their wells in Pleasanton.
I wonder if the loons in San Francisco that have been demanding that the Hetch Hetchy dam be torn down are still pushing for that?
2.6 million consumers – with “minimal” consumption of 1 gal per day. Hmmmmm not gonna last very long.
Yes, ‘they’ are, and I’m right here. O’Shaughnessy Dam is a blight and its reservoir is an excrescence — a deep human scar on the natural beauty of the Sierra. If they’ll just let it drain the rest of the way …
“Mr. Brown, Tear Down That Wall!”
Loon is a loon, and there are a lot of loons in Sacramento who created this “water shortage” by running gazillons of gallons into the ocean when we had plenty of water to fill all of our reservoirs to capacity. They didn’t help the fish, and they screwed the people.
Your inquiry is like a guy who steals a car, and then wonders how he’ll ever manage to get around after it’s been returned to its rightful owner. But that being said:
There’s no water in HH that doesn’t flow here anyway — all by itself. The soulless enginerds make much of the fact that the water comes all the way here in their pipes via gravity — whatta concept — it does, anyway, without their help. That water could therefore be sourced ANYwhere Else along its route to the bay.
All that HH does is sacrifice a valley of natural splendor that is nearly the equal of neighboring Yosemite. It has intrinsic, wilderness value that is almost priceless. HH is typical of the timed-out thinking in the era when it was built — that man is at the center of the universe, and his job is to conquer and rule me, not live in harmony with me. You may be aware that the Army Corps also had a plan to similarly dam(n) Yosemite Valley — you may get a stirring south of your belt just thinking of the water IT could hold!
As to the puddle silliness — there’s not much sediment in that HH water — it’s ‘pristime,’ remember? So there will be surprisingly little mud to contend with when the dam comes down — which it will someday — I ALways win. And do you know what happens to mud? It dries out, that’s what.
Also, the valley’s reclamation will be a fascinating exercise, and an object lesson in Man’s Inhumanity to Me. I’d even leave the ring around the tub until it fades, which it will — as a reminder of O’Shaughnessy’s Folly. To the extent that it is publicly funded, many of my ample tax dollars go to much worse uses. A couple weeks of the Iraq War should do the trick.
I’m still seeing people watering their very green lawns and the water going in the street. Check out the condo neighborhood at Stoneridge and Springdale. It looks like a pristine golf course! And the water runs down the gutter. Our car gets sprinkled when we drive by.
That’s our drinking water. Our lawns are dead but the city keeps wasting water!
Comment above brought to you by your friends at the Unsustainability Project — the people who also sponsor Global Warming. Arguing that Yosemite is enough is like dealing with extinctions by putting stuffed specimens in a museum. Who will visit when we have also taken ourselves out of the equation?
It truly is astounding how loony “Loon” and “Your Mother Nature” are – truly astounding. They are completely disjointed from reality. They are the kind of folks that vote for Pelosi (or her minions) and Obama. Even Pelosi is not loony enough to want to remove Hetch Hetchy, so that must mean that “Loon” and “Your Mother Nature” are even loonier than Pelosi (contemplate that).
If you’ve got an argument to make, DC, then make it about what she or I wrote — and not about what we must “be.” Status offenses are meaningless name-calling. I mean, you don’t see me calling you a knuckle-dragging cretin, although I could.
BTW, I have it on excellent authority that it’s not a good idea to mess with Mother Nature.
This is a message for “Worried”:
Call the City’s drought hotline to report overwatering: 931.5504
Loon, please do not use a quote from one, if not the greatest president In the history of the United States. Ronald Reagan would not like to know that a green hippie is using his quote. It’s Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!.
Not Mr. Brown.
If I didn’t agree with Mr Reagan in his life, why would I care about his cult’s sensibilities more than 25 blessed years after his departure from office? He was an excellent celebrity for the simple, but not much of a President.
i agree…plus he want dodo birdy…DODO BIRDY and had to have assistants to change his diapers…tee hee…now that is a HOOT!
HOOT! HOOT! HOOT!
the ding dong is HOOTY HOOT HOOT D E A D!
time marches on…
65% capacity. No where do I read what the capacity is at that is time of year in previous years. Is 65% normal , abnormal or what? In how many years was 65% just normal? I do love the drama tho.
Interesting point, Ruth. At the risk of being messed-with by the heavy-handed PW mods, did you ever notice the typical arc of threads like this one?
1 — first poster makes an aggressive, divisive, derisive statement regarding something about which they know very little, and the people who favor it — making claims that serve his misconceptions;
2 — somebody else replies reasonably, with actual facts that address those misconceptions;
3 — this puts first poster deeper in attack mode, making more outlandish claims and spewing much more personal invective
4 — when those claims are similarly debunked, first poster abandons the actual argument completely (it was never his primary purpose, anyway) and resorts to making stale old jokes that were past their tell-by dates during the Truman Administration. Har.
5 — yet to come, when first poster is called-on his behavior, he attacks that poster, too — all the while foregoing the opportunity for an actual conversation about something where reasonable minds may differ — and managing to learn Nothing that might interfere with his fear-fueled prejudices.
Now, PW Mod — you may think that this post is not germane to the thread, but it’s actually ALL about this thread, and many others. Further — remember those old Chiffon commercials? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8
117,000,000,000 gallons. How many units is that?
Loon (and you clearly are), your proposal to create a mud hole where the most pristine water supply currently exists could only be the brainchild of a very dulluded enviro-whacko. Exactly what, you deep human scar, will you do to replace this water source and what will you do with this deep whole in the ground? I have some suggestions for you, if you can’t come up with any. You must support the president, becasue he thinks the same way….dreaming of the way he tinks things should be with no basis in reality….good luck with that.
I was looking forward to hearing somebody wondering where the supporters are for the “Removal of the Hetch Hetchy dam”. However couldn’t believe a past supporter of this foolishness would actually respond. “Loon” seems an approriate name for somebody that could still support the removal. Perhaps “Loon” could enlighten the rest of us on what the population now supported by Hetch Hetchy will do for water. And, none of the normal “pie in the sky” wishful thinking, but rather something actually possible.
Mother, man is the center of the universe. Take yourself out of the equation and what becomes of your giant hole in the ground?
Your priceless wilderness is right next door, in Yosemite park. Not enough for you….move to another area with a nearby National Park…Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, etc.
Water is life. Quality water is a rare commodity and required to sustain life for man. Enough of the tree hugging utopian view of life that doesn’t exist on this earth. Time for a reality check, princess.
You did make one sane comment….your tax dollars go to much worse uses, like supporting illegals immigrants.
Loon, please get to the bottom of the Hetch Hetchy reservoir and inspect and verify the utopia you claim is there. Go ahead, we will wait for you to surface, although the water will be less than pristine after you’ve been in it.
Your mother nature and all true liberals have one common belief: That we humans are the cause of all disruptions to what is deemed by them to be “the normal course of nature”, and the only way to rectify the situation is our elimination. Darkness is around every corner. It was fascinating to see a recent poll find that somewhere~ 30% of liberals do not like this country. I would proffer that 100% don’t their life. Liberalism truly is a sickness.