Of the week. Showers may linger into saturday, but for the most part the upcoming weekend looks dry. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 will in our top story this morning. San Francisco Police are investigating a crash that left two elderly pedestrians seriously injured. A family of five was also hurt but managed to out of their car with a few scrapes. Kron4s Ella Sogomonian has more. Two elderly men crossing geary st at 21st avenue were hit by a delivery truck driver at 3 30 monday afternoon. One victim is a 79 year old man who is bleeding internally. The second is a 66 year old man who has broken ribs and a punctured lung. The truc
There today. Thats the area that got the highest amount of snow. Parts of berks county also seen snow this morning. This is a live look from west reading. Shoveling process started earlier this morning in allentown. We saw people clearing their sidewalks and plow trucks out making sure those roads were safe for drivers. And snow is still falling at the jersey shore and in parts of delaware. Heres a live look right now at the baurd walk oardwalk in ocea. You can see it was snowing but the road was mostly just wet. And 76 viend in center city where the roads are wet this morning rrtd morning rush was slow this morning because of reduced visibility. And this is a live look at Philadelphia International airport, the airport reported some cancellations and delays this morning as crews worked to deice planes. Good morning im denise macan know. Hundred of schools had closings and delays this morning fwhaufs snowfall and nbc 10 randy is live in west reading with how the snow is impacting that
None, next item please item 6 other commission business. Commissioners . Public comment clicks next item item 7, report of the general manager. Shift it so, the first item is mountain tunnel update. Steve ritchie. Good afternoon commissioner. Steve ritchie assistant general manager for what. Besides please . Ive a few slides to show thatll update us on the mountain tunnel project. First heres a schedule for the project that is hopefully clear and concise you can see the next two years a really critical ones for the mountain tunnel project it really three components. The mountain tunnel access improvements, which is getting in there and improving access to the tunnel itself through the roadway access points. The second is the mountain tunnel inspection and repair program, which provides for a significant inspection of the tunnel in early 2017. With some repairs done in 2017 and significant repairs in 2018. Lastly down tunnel bypass project. Whats important to note there is that it shows
State water board front and take necessary actions to protect our water rights. But we have it answer your questions. Either questions . Thank you, mr. Richie. Any Public Comment on seven ce, on the doubt . Good afternoon mr. Brooks good afternoon commissioners are books San Francisco green party sustainability chairman coordinator of our city San Francisco. I just want to speak to the drought in relation to desalination as ive done before. Also on the water committee, the Sierra Club Bay chapter, and i was pleased to hear through the grapevine were at our last Committee Meeting a lot of the bay area cities are backing away from the bay area desalination project because of the high expense involved in it. I just want to reinforce i point out a key dynamic with a desalination treatment plan is based on a pay for the purposes of using brackish, or lowsalt water to filter because its less intensive to filter it cost less. Well, if youre building a Desalination Plant to deal with drought,
Comment on seven ce, on the doubt . Good afternoon mr. Brooks good afternoon commissioners are books San Francisco green party sustainability chairman coordinator of our city San Francisco. I just want to speak to the drought in relation to desalination as ive done before. Also on the water committee, the Sierra Club Bay chapter, and i was pleased to hear through the grapevine were at our last Committee Meeting a lot of the bay area cities are backing away from the bay area desalination project because of the high expense involved in it. I just want to reinforce i point out a key dynamic with a desalination treatment plan is based on a pay for the purposes of using brackish, or lowsalt water to filter because its less intensive to filter it cost less. Well, if youre building a Desalination Plant to deal with drought, the time when the salinity gets high, it is not economical to use the docile Desalination Plant thats plan to filter water to give water to drought parched district is dur