Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171128

The order of 20 million on a preliminary basis. More flexibility with Priest Reservoir supply and also hydro power benefits which are currently under evaluation. And so the schedule for this project would be essentially to begin our ceqa and nea process immediately. That would take a little over two years. In parallel, we would do our design process and also the rightofway accusations that are needed for the project for staging areas and access and we would expect to issue notice to proceed on construction in the spring of 2020. At that point, the contractor would mobilize and start doing the excavations necessary for the downstream control new portal at priest. They would do that work in isolation from the existing tunnel and then in 2021, which is our first shutdown, which is shown in red on that chart, we would tie that new downstream control facility into the existing tunnel. Now that is a 60day shutdown. If you recall, before we had that control, we have to drain Priest Reservoir. That means we have limited water to supply to both people and fish during that shutdown. Once that downstream control structure is in place, we dont have to drain reservoir any longer for future shutdowns. Therefore, the four subsequent shutdowns on the schedule would be 100 days which makes our work much more efficient going forward. At that point, we would be able to implement the critical repairs and finish the project with the last shutdown in 2025. What is the impact on the animals . The fish in that during that stage . So there is a Fish Hatchery run by the state and they rely on water supply for the viability of the Fish Hatchery work that theyre doing. So during an extended shutdown, it is doubtful that we would be able to supply the amount of water that they need for both the garden variety trout as well as the endangered species that are at that hatchery. Yep. So what are the next steps . First of all, we intend to go forward with the 2018 interim repairs that have been scheduled for some time and this is essentially a continuation of the urgent repairs that were started in 2017 to keep the tunnel operational. We plan to finalize it next month and complete in the spring of next year so the contractor can mobilize and be ready for that shutdown. That is a 60day shutdown next fall. In parallel, we would continue our plan to plan for the large tunnel improvements project. As i said, we would start on environmental documentation and design immediately and issue a request for proposal for Construction Management in early 2018. With that, im happy to take any questions. I have a question. So the hydro power benefits. I know earlier on when talking about this project, i had raised the question of micro hydro suns i think it has been coming online a little bit more. And i dont know if that is what you are referring to. But any of no. And if not, what are the potential hydro powered benefits and is there a way to maximize them with this project . Right. The potential benefits relate to being able to operate the tunnel more efficiently and provide some shaping benefits at kirkwood as well as some additional benefits at moccasin as a result of implementing downstream control as well as the repairs to the tunnel reducing the friction on the overall hydraulics of the system. Id love to get a better understanding when you have them of what those benefits are. And how we could maximize them. It just feels like this is an opportunity once you are in there to be able to add on, if not maximize and create more efficiency through the rebuild. Absolutely. Thank you. Commissioners, anything else . Ok. And dont go anywhere because i know youre up two more times. I believe we take Public Comment on this item. With that, any Public Comment related to mountain tunnel . Ok. All right. Next update that dan will give is the water system improvement program. The local and regional Quarterly Report. If we could go to the slides, please. So it is about 95 complete, as you know. We have one project remaining in the local program that still needs to be closed out which is lake merced pump station. There are electrical issues weve been working on. We think we have those resolved but were letting the system run a little bit longer before we close that contract out completely. The regional system is about 95 complete. So we do have a number of recent accomplishments excuse me. Before before i get into the accomplishments, i want to talk about cost and schedule forecasts in the current Quarterly Report. The current overall forecast is 4. 876 billion which is approximately 2k34r0r million over the approved budget of 4. 846 million. The current forecast completion is may of 2021, which is approximately 17 months beyond the current approved schedule. Now this forecast covers soft costs for scheduled extensions that are necessary for the capsule project as well as the regional ground water storage and Recovery Project as well as other miscellaneous issues. And i also covers the remaining risk at approximately the 60 confidence level. Now we do plan to forecast a budget in our december Quarterly Report that would cover the risk at greater than the 80 confidence level. I believe that would be in the range of there 10 to 15 million more than is currently forecast in this Quarterly Report and our proposal would be to include the additional requested budget in the proposed 10year cirp that will be presented to the commission earlier in the year. So the recent accomplishments that we achieved can final construction completion on northington tunnel, as you know, we completed the physical work quite some time ago but we had some claims to resolve and we successfully resolved those claims of over 21 million for approximately 7 million. The reasonable groundwater recovery and storage project has completed the fiveday testing of the individual components of the phase one and phase two wells as 13 well stations and we plan on installing two test wells this fall to get that additional capacity thats needed in the san bruno area this fall. The replacement project is moving along very well and i know all of you have been out there, some more recently than others. But the dam embankment is at elevation 645 at the end of the quarter. We completed several of the other buildings and facilities at the site and the outlet works have been turned over to operations for the up coming wind every and the fish passage facilities at Alameda Creek conversion dam has advanced to over 50 construction. Now as you know during the previous quarter, the Planning Department did certify the final Environmental Impact report for the Alameda Creek recapture project. But subsequent to that certification, the Alameda County Water District filed an apale to the board of supervisors overturning a portion of the e. I. R. And in addition, the National Marine Fisheries Service filed a letter in support of that appeal. And so the board adopted the findings, reversed in the final e. I. R. Certification and directed the Planning Department to provide Additional Information and analysis regarding whether the proposed project would result in operational impacts on steelhead fish as a result of stream flow in Alameda Creek. As well to have an independent Third Party Review the e. I. R. Ground water and surface water model. The board determined with respect to all other issues on the e. I. R. That it is acceptable and complete. So the Planning Department will recirculate a portion of the e. I. R. To provide analysis on operational impacts on steelhead fish in the loer watershed as a result of the project induced effects on stream flow in Alameda Creek. So, the bidding process that we had in place was canceled and well rebid it after this process is complete. As i mentioned, the replacement project is moving along very well. You can see the new embankment in the foreground of this photo with the reservoir and existing dam in the background. It is a little hard to see, but if you get a little bit closer look up, you can see that the dam is making substantial progress. And we expect to be essentially done with the dam em bankment construction by this time next year. And so contractor has been working very diligently six days a week, day shift and night shift, that there will be a break during the winter time when they cannot really place the clay core material, but there will be other work going on on the site throughout the winter to drive at that schedule. The fish passage facilities at the Alameda Creek conversion dam are over 50 dam and this aerial photo shows the fish ladder on the left. You can see where the fish would enter the ladder and make a turn to the right, to go over the top of the existing Diversion Dam and then enter the stream upstream of the Diversion Dam. And recently the new fish screens arrived at the site and have been installed and sort of the project is essentially complete with the instream portion of the work. And the project will continue through next year for some of the work that is outside of the stream, including some retainingle whats, buildings, electrical improvements, scada, etc. , but the project is moving along very well. The project completed its fiveday testing for all 13 well stations. And this is what a typical well station interior looks like. You can see the well kind of in the right Center Portion of the photo with the plumbing to connect to our Regional Water system. And the biohabitat restoration project on the peninsula, which is the last active project that is part of the b. H. R. Is essentially done with vegetation removal and you can see the flags for acorn plants for the oak woodlands that will be there in the future. With that, ill be happy to take any questions. Commissioners . So, when will we see our al Alameda Creek project come back through . It would be next summer. Summer . Late springsummer. Ok. Any Public Comment on this item . All right. The last item for dan is the Water Enterprise Capital Improvement Program Quarterly Report. So, the last item id like to present today is a report ton water c. I. P. And ill start with the variances shown in the report, on page five of the report. For the water transmission system, we have the san andreas pipeline number two, lock bar replacement project. That project has just recently gone out to bid. It does show a cost variance of about 3. 8 million and about 12. 9 months behind schedule. This is through densely Populated Areas and a new Construction Cost estimate that was done just prior to bid. We have the micro turban project, which is on budgets but about asian months behind schedule and this is primarily because the project is on hold until the Alameda Creek recapture promise is complete. At that time we can better evaluate the benefits associated with that project. And then the southern skyline boulevard ridge trail extension project, there was a memo in the communications about that project and so you know already that that project is 22 months behind schedule and this is essentially due to delays in ceq ark as we work out the traffic issues with caltrans. And lastly, the longterm improvements is about 3 1 2 months behind schedule. More significantly it is about 37 million overbudget and this is due to the high bids that we received on both the yard project and the water shed center. And so we are looking to the new c. I. P. To consider potential additions to the budget so that the water shed center can go forward. So if we go to the slides highlights for the reporting period are that the pipeline project is over 95 complete. You may recall this is the last seismic reliability project that drives toward the level of Service Goals that were established and are continuing as par of the Water Program and so that project will be nearly complete and will signify level of service xlaoeltion t. Construction of the Administration Building has progressed to structural framework and of the Administration Buildings and the design is complete for the replacement of the san andreas pipeline through san bruno. In fiscal year 2016 and 2017, we completed 10. 4 miles of San Francisco Distribution System pipelines. This photo shows the work through sterngrove. Pretty difficult work, including the tunnel. As i said, were nearly complete. A for any toe of the structural framing in the sunol yard that looks completely different than it used to and its good to see the progress on that work. The San Francisco ground water supply lake merced pump station is, again, has completed the fiveday tests and well be entering into the Operational Testing phase with the overall system including both the San Francisco groundwater system and regional groundwater system on the peninsula. We have some New Buildings and grounds improvements at sun reservoir, including the storage building. And if you look at the San Francisco Waterline Replacement Program here locally in San Francisco, i mentioned the 10. 4 miles last year. This year we are forecasting about 14 miles and our city Distribution Division has increased staffing in various trades in other words to really strive to make that goal of 15 miles that the Commission Set for us a while back. But we do need Additional Resources to sustainably construct those 15 miles of pipeline per year. In addition, the cost of this work has gone up substantially due to the construction going on in San Francisco currently. So this graph charts the progress over the last fiveyear when we had a budget of about 20 million to our current budget of nearly 50 million. In order to make 15 miles we do expect that we need a larger budget than that. You can see the dash line going upwards just because of the high pidses and some of the joint project work that were doing. With that, id be happy to take any questions. I have a question about the pipeline replacement. Didnt we set the goal of 15 miles per year, quite some time ago . Yes. I dont know if you recall the exact date. Yes, we have. And the challenge has been, lately, is with the all the buildings that are going on. We haed to shift our resources to tie the buildings the water connections. So, weve been having with the Public Housing and all the development that is going on, so that has been challenging for us to get resources. Remember last budget cycle asked for additional staff for plumbers, to have more plumbers and the proposal yet again is to add more resources because were just overwhelmed of the queue time for hookups are becoming quite long and we wanted to reduce that. The other thing is that we are finding that with construction mitigation and trying to coordinate is becoming very, very expensive. And so even at the board, they are talking about construction mitigation that, you know, for impacting businesses, they are talking about identifying mitigation. The one thing that i mentioned to you as part of the as part of my work plan, is were going to have a dedicated funding for makinging the 15 miles and i think where were falling short is when we were putting some of that money to meet the 15 miles in joint projects that we really didnt have control over. So, were going to have 15 miles on projects that we have control over and then were going to have additional money when there is an opportunity to join in with m. T. A. Or San Francisco public works luke, for example, van ness. That is behind, right . And can you imagine if 15 miles was dependent on that portion is this we wouldnt make it. Right . We wouldnt make it. So, that is why were shifting and that is why i had a conversation that were going to have 15 miles dedicated and make sure that we have staff so we can hold ourselves accountable for it. Well, how is that going to fit in with the overall problem of digging up the street and having different entities put their equipment in . I mean, we cant just go dig up a street to get to the sewer. [please stand by] before we put our lines in and before we pay. The other thing i want to point out is not that one contractor goes in and does all the work, each of the pg e has their contractor, water, wastewater will have their contractor, and typically another will come in after one is in and out and to pay and hopefully they have a moratorium so the street wont be dug up anytime soon. Well be watching. Any other comments . Anyone for Public Comment on this item . So i do have one last item, which is an update. Now you may have heard on the news that we had a Mountain Lion sighting and i