There were no particular ups and downs, it was just a steady flow and so early to draw conclusions on this but this is something that we will continue to look at and one of the things of a task that we have under way is working with a number of climate specialists to try to take the Global Change models and bring them down to the regional level, and directly to the local level for operations and that is work that should begin late they are year and hopefully within a year so that we can have results of that, to that and it might start to shed light on how we should potentially change the operations in the future, and each year is different. And looking at this year, and i will speak for margaret, and myself, both in january, when we saw how low things were, we were, we were frightened. And that was extremely low. And i started to ask, what if it does not rain again . And the people laughed. Nervously, because it is always rained and this year was no different, and it did, rain, but tha
For landscape and turf all customers are required to reduce outdoor irrigation by ten percent and the reduction does not apply to edible food gardens, this made it clear that they did not want to interfere for the gardening, for food, and it is just about orn mental. And 1600 on the retail side are dedicated irrigation accounts will be assigning those and wateral locations based on the 2013 base line and half of those accounts are City Department accounts, and rec and park primarily, and the irrigation customers will be notified, to a letter, about the water allocation and the process of achieving the ten percent reduction and no water charges will be assessed until the end of the year and people can balance out over the year between months and for other retail customers, we will be notified regularly through the messages that they need to reduce the irrigation outdoors. And we will be talking about the excess use charges at the august 26th meeting and our current proposal that we are
Anticipate participation there after. And that concludes my report and i would be happy to take any questions. Commissioners . Yes. What is that flying saucer machine . In the last slide . That is a butterfly valve that is one of the pipelines at the treatment plant. It opens and closes for flow. Okay, correct. Thank you. Mr. Wade, thank you very much. Thank you. Very informative. So, the next report that i have the water supply out look, and mr. Ritchie will present that. All right. Okay the team is finished with the work. Steve r. Cri. Hie, the direct for water and i will have the updates, i will move into those and i have skipped a couple of these slides that we have seen before to cut right to the chase and this is the slide showing the reservoirs and as you note the hetch hetch is 90 percent low, and it has been coming down as the summer progressed and there is no inflow and that will decrease until the following and into the next wet season that we get. We expect to be around oct
Report on the Pipeline Assessment Program at the next meeting so that we can talk about that. Thank you. Commissioner vietor just a question about this precipitation graph and if there is any other data that you have been learning as you plot out these graphs around precipitation, whether it is starting to come later, during the year, because something that you said around, you know, you are much more pleased that what you were thinking was going to happen in january, is not happening. Because there has been additional rain fall and one thing that says to me is that there is more and there is later rain fall happening during the year. And that that might have applications for the water banking and when we do the projections and our storage. And so, i guess that my question is, is, can we tell, either from this chart, or are you tracking whether our rain fall is starting indeed to come later in the year . And what are the implications for our water banking or for our, you know, planning
One shot there. And we were looking at all breaks and i think that we have a break in south San Francisco, november a few years ago that might have been comparable with that one, but that one was just right there. We are on top of it. As on top of it as you can get and we will actually have a report on the Pipeline Assessment Program at the next meeting so that we can talk about that. Thank you. Commissioner vietor just a question about this precipitation graph and if there is any other data that you have been learning as you plot out these graphs around precipitation, whether it is starting to come later, during the year, because something that you said around, you know, you are much more pleased that what you were thinking was going to happen in january, is not happening. Because there has been additional rain fall and one thing that says to me is that there is more and there is later rain fall happening during the year. And that that might have applications for the water banking and