Toxic Program News Today

Practically with questions from our two guests. So, let me introduce them. Reid wilson is at the washington post. Hes the govbeat reporter. He is following policy details with the states and federal government. James hohmann is at politico, and hes a political reporter there. Were going to start with reid wilson. Reid well, governor, lets talk about federalism for a second. A huge percentage of utah and most other western states are owned by the federal government. What challenge does that pose ...

Yet we see with this continued growth and expansion, the federal government encroaches, i believe, into the responsibilities of the states. And that is not a partisan issue, that is a democrat, republican, independent agrees that the government is taking over too much. So lets get back to the concept of responsibility as defined in our constitution and what weve always known as called federalism. Susan well, i am sure we will be hearing more about that practically with questions from our two gue...

Items a through e at president arce request. Thank you. Can we start with item a city clerk tock ikz reduction and environmental safety. Chris gooiger. Thank you. Im not going to give you a n if you is you is survey of what the Toxic Program does. I have been asked to talk about the program which is a long standing successful collaboration with puc and other departments. And with apologizes to the commission on environment who have heard this several times in the past years. Let me tell you what...

Of water depending on the humidity on the ground . Yes. Commissioner stevenson . You said we are not at the 10 percent goal. Where are we . The 10 percent goal is a curve. Demand goes up. So far weve been tracking fairly close. Its a little bit below when weve had some pretty hot spells. It has gone up during those periods. So we are actually fairly close. We think with a little bit more effort and the campaign we are counting on a lot there and hope to get over the top for in city use. Outside ...

We started to send crews down mom and pop place that put the grease water and pour it down the sewer. We are generating money for that and plus its keeping it out of the sewer. Resource recovery is a big thing for us, not just biogas, any grease related stuff. It was once used. All the water out of our Treatment Plant can be used. 100 percent is being recycled. Its helping the citys goal to meet. So we are trying our very best. Thats great. I think at the department we would be super happy to do...

Is getting work on. In test terms of cost share Replacement Program where you can move to drop tolerant plants which doesnt need much irrigation. We have hit about six parks so far, i believe. Thats great. One last question, have you ever encourage the installation of smart Irrigation Systems which will spray a different amount of water depending on the humidity on the ground . Yes. Commissioner stevenson . You said we are not at the 10 percent goal. Where are we . The 10 percent goal is a curve...

Helps to meet our goals. Those are layers where we should cooperate and staff will give a lot more depth to these topics,. There is a lot of opportunities to Work Together and commonality to build our respective strengths. Thank you. Thank you very much, michael and david for being here and giving us those important reports. Im going to ask that the secretary for the commission on the environment go ahead and call items a through e at president arce request. Thank you. Can we start with item a c...

The design, moving forward, we are not quite there yet. But i think every facility that we are going to be building will have solar. We have civil several solar facilities on our properties. Resource recovery is a big deal for us. We collect from every restaurant. We are not just even big producers of grease, but turning bio diesel also. We start the program as a pretreatment. We want to get the grease out of the sewer. We spend 4 million a year. We started to send crews down mom and pop place t...

Environmental goals in toxics reduction and environmental safety, Water Conservation, wastewater management, clean vehicle adoption and Renewable Generation and Energy Efficiency including a discussion of opportunities, challenges and potential future collaboration in pursuit of environmental objectives. Speakers for toxic production and safety. Not yet. You can jump ahead, thats fine with me. Im michael carl in the chief operating officer for the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to giv...

Look at urban water shed assessment and we are also using this bottom line to do this. Public outreach obviously is signature, significant, its going to affect the rate. At the end of the day we are about four things. Why why we are doing all of this work here. Financially we should be responsible for what we do and the fourth one is we have to sustain the practices that we do. This is just a chart to show the things how we are actually going to get this done. This is a big deal for the puc in t...