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Pool and that means theres some left in the reservoir but you cant get it out. You throw a hose in and pump it out in an abnormal way but it cant be released through normal mechanisms. This is how we track our work over time. So for the last drought, we followed this basic scenario of getting to higher levels of conservation driven by state water board measures and i was asked by a conference what would have you done different if you had known we were getting into this drought and my answer is nothing. This droughtplanning scenario serves us extremely well to meet obligation to our customers here in the city and outside. Which means, if the drought isnt that severe, yes therell be some water left over but we dont really know for sure about that. That led me as we prepared our comments to the state on the Water Quality control plan to look at more documents. There was a declaration by the general manager at the time when considering ....
Our objectives for water supply adopted in 2008 by the commission is to survive a specific eight and a half year plan scenario from 1987 to 1992 followed by 197677 backtoback with no more than 20 rationing. Theres a lot in that and that means at the end of the drought were down to zero water. Thats survival. Thats not being able to do anything else in the future. Thats a whole other question but thats the basic scenario. And its shown graphically here we start out with 1. 68 million acre feet and then you see along the bottom line theres a series of fiscal years with 86 to 76, 77 following that. The blue line shows the decreasing level of storage through the end of the year. As we got to Different Levels of storage available to us because ours say storagebased system, you end up with a new level of rationing as it gets worse and worse. Interest in the middle of 1988 we go to 10 rationing. In the middle of 1990, 20 rationing and ....
Based on high rate treatment if we wanted to move in that direction to reduce the amount of volume so we can treat more and that was really the indication of the size. And then, you know, as part of phase two, if we want to move into construction, we will come back to you to present what the budget is. I think one of challenges is that the actual location of some of the shafts for the tunnel, that is somethinging were trying to finalize before we move forward. Were planninging to come back and one of the things that we to do, based on the last conversation that we had, is really talk about what were trying to solve with the Sewer System Improvement Program. You know, its broken down into three components. One is the treatment. One collection. And one is program matic stuff. And i know that collection is where Green Infrastructure is, you know, the main ....