Trust responsibility in the state of california to be reasonable and use the best scientific nrfgz available. Thank you and i think a healthy doest of whiskey may help that. Good afternoon commission. Rochel trugairo a policy manager at the Bay Area Council. The Bay Area Council is a nonprofit Public Policy organization representing a cross sector of the regions largest employers. The bay area is californias most valuable economic asset boasting 531 billion economy in 2015 despite having 17 percent of the staets resident the bay areas taxpayers generate 36 percent of our state income tax revenue. But the bay area economy cant function without water as it account for about 85 percent of San Franciscos fresh water and 55 percent of the 1. 8 million served by bosca. They would have the lowest water use rates in california. Residents in the combined San Francisco use just 54 gallons per day compared to the state wide average of 82 gallons. San franciscos residential usage of 41 gallons per day is one of the lowest in industrialized world. However, the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission estimates the users could face up to 50 percent cuts during droughts with rationing beginning immediately at the first sign of drought. This level of rationing could only be avoided by major investment in new supply that have no certainty of procurement. Because the bay areas water usage is so low this could have impacts undermining water sensitive institutions such as Hospital Data centers and bio Tech Industries and exacerbating our housing e crisis. The region is projected to grow by 820 more householdsm the draft [inaudible] could stifle the Housing Production as demonstrated in east pal o alto and force employers to expand else 37 where. In conclusion the bay areas economic value per gallon needs protection. Applaud the state water board initant to improve and save the echo system of the san joaquinair quu and tributaries and appreciate the balancing of human and environmental needsism we urged the board to take whatever measures needed to meet these competing water needs through voluntary agreements. Thank you. Ben ikeenburg, john palmroy, m att richardson. Hello. Im ben ike en burg on behalf of San Francisco bay keeper and more than 5 thousand members who use San Francisco bay and urge you to support the state water boards sed and compromise 40 percent proposition. I think a lot of the commenters that have gone before me have covered a lot of the reasons why this commission should support the greater flows of the river and health of the bay delta eco system but i want to make a few quick points. The bay area demonstrated it can thrirfb under drought condition squz one thing that isnt coved so far is the most successful Environmental Conservation in the country regulatory conservation in thecountry has come through innovation forcing regulations. I think what you see in the bay area is Innovative Tech Companies and people here who come up with solutions to these problems and if you limit supply then youll see Great Innovation and people come up with Amazing Solutions and that is some place where the sfpu c can take a leadership role. The other point i wanted to make really quick is that i notice that youre cooperating with or aligned with the irrigation district turlock and merced qu with the san joaquin tributary association and want to point out thaes partnerships dont necessarily represent the interest of sfpu c and the residents and customers. The irrigation districts have very different interests and think you should take that into consideration when you put together your comment s. That is what makes negotiations difficult. Good afternoon commissioners. Thank you sfr your time today. We are waterthis issues goes so much deeper than a couple species of fish. The health of our environment should always be our First Priority. These are most pressure assets. All too often business and commercial interest take a very narrow view while commodifying these Natural Resources which are a matrix of closely linked and pressure components. When one component is degraded there is a ripple effect. Similarly, when one component is nurtured the other s benefit as well. Healthy living soil for example needs much less irrigation as life is water, so life in soil equates to water in soil. Incent vising agriculture practices that nucher living soil, maximize irrigation efficiency and allows more water aligated downstream. This is just one thing we can do to fix the problem that all of us are here talking about today. Thise practices also minimize the toxicity of irrigation runoff maximizing our health. Let us know follow the example of recent history where great economic and social achievements came at the cost of air and Water Quality no longer safe to breathe or drink, in planning processes our cities county and state must place the quality of the eco system as their highest priority. The truth wealth of our society to provide long term wellness and happiness to all the people. Compromiseing for economic gain steals quality of life for the children and generations to come. It is easy to say this is a small compromise and there are situations where a compromise is necessary but shouldnt be the course of normal or public prescribet enterprise. We must always ask what sth value of economic success if our living river eco system is little more than a toxic sewer. The problems of our world are increasingly complex the solutionerize embarrass ingly simple. Is m att richardson here . He had to leave. Gale, bury hermann son and [inaudible] thank you for agendizing this item. I was born and raised in San Francisco as was my father. I am related through my mother to the con roy family, which included San Francisco police captain, a lete a couple fireman and one member of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I remember i was here when bay shore was synonymous with offensive stense and when air quality was so bad that the entire bay area was coated in a green yellow cloud. Hats off to environmental leeus peter dreck myer who fought and got the improvements to be realized. Im not sure of the social and economic democracy for america dim cratic club. We studied water issues and found out there is vastly more water assigned as paper water rights. I think it is 5 times as much than there ever is water in the state and that many so called farm said are actually ginet agrow businesses growing water intensive crops for export. We also found a number of holders of paper water rights sell them for many times the very low price they pay to the state. This seems very wrong. Our demo cratic club voted to approve the twin tunnels known as the bcdc. Your neighbors in san mateo, conte, the board of supervisors passed a resolution noting the significance of San Francisco bay and the esh ware providing Drinking Water and providing for the salmon fisheries and resources for migetory bird. They also kno note the state water board resource control board determined in 2010 that 75 percent of unimpaired run off from the system should flow into had deltasorry out of the delta into the the est ware during winter and spring months. As for economic concerns clearly drought restrictions have posed no barriers to Economic Growth in our area. In fact, to such an extent east pal o alto is suing meno park over traffic and issues related to growth and development. As for citizen support i remind you that bay area residents voted to tax themselves to imbruv the condition of the bay. In closing, i note that San Franciscos water use is not typically in my area while some people allow their lawns to go brown others waste vast amounts of water especially in palo alto. I urge you to do your maximum to preserve the health of our bay eco system. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is barren hermann son and serve on the San FranciscoGroup Executive committee for the sierra club. Im here to speak in favor of increased flows. There was a speaker a little earlier today that encouraged you to try to always keep a balance between human needs and the needs for the environment and i say that the needs for the environment must take pres dense because it it is if we do not provide the flows, we are already experiencing a est ware that is dying and it is up to us to find ways to save more water. It is possible. Myself, i installed Water Systems not only for my shower, sink, bath tub, but have also done it for laundry so that i reduce dramatically what i use in my yard yet i have fruit trees and a vegetable garden. I use less than 25 gallons per day and it is i believe possible for us to actually people talk about dooms day using half as much as whauts we get now. I believe it is possible to do that and it is possible to do it as well in terms of particularly our agriculture uses. We need to actually invest in finding ways to be as productive but use less and less water and recycle that water. I would love to be building a large cistern in my backyard. Be able to save all this rain water. Drives me nuts i got to use fresh Drinking Water to flush my toilet, that obscene. It ought to be the First Priority in the state to figure how all that infrastructure can be changed. We should not use Drinking Water for that purpsh. Im having trouble finding a engineer who will design a cistern. This is old technology. It is used arond the world forever. To be able to save 5 to 6 thousand gallons of water comingone big storm would fill that out. I believe we need policies to encourage this kind of savings and reuse of our water. Thank you very much. Thank you. President moran and commissioners, nice to see you. Im the Program Director at the Bay Institute and director of conservation at bay. Org which includes the institute [inaudible] and other facilities so speaking not just as a representative of a group of sciencetist and policy people who looked at what the flow needs are for the eco system and the city major employers and tourist attractions. As some speakers have said, San Francisco is justifybly proud of the leadership we displayed in many environmental areas but also have to acknowledge we are not as good steward as we should be of the water should or important eco systems downstream all the way to San Francisco bay. There is a vast scientific record compiled by the Bay Institute and state and federal fisheries agencies, state water board staff itself and other researchers that you need half or more of the watershed flow from the san joaquin basin and the tributary rivers in order to support fishery populations and Aquatic Resources that have a tupt to grow rather than to decline. What that means is not you need hlf the water to restore a eco system to what it was 100 years ago it means you need half the water to prevent fish and organisms going ix tinth. That record is no serious counter arguments. There a number of issues raised and Steve Ritchie mentioned some of them. The first is issue of flow versus nonflow. No one argues there are many non flow measures taken to protect the eco system as a whole. The point is that it is isnt a either or. You need flows in order to support non flow measures if you want to address predidation you need to provide improved flows. If you want functional flood plain and spawning you need improved flows. If you do one without the other those measures will fail. You cannot decouple them. Adaptive management we dont have perfect knowledge and should more adaptively manage but the fact is the boards proposal is based on a percentage not flat numbers, so it is hydro logically sensitive. The boards proposal allows for shaping of flows so we dont have to do those numbers every year. The board will likely include criteria for drought periods which chris chutes referred to earlier. Finally, let me address the settlement issue. In 4 or 5 years of settlement talks among all the parties, none of the parties have come close to resolving the issue and not likely they will do in the 6 monthss before the board has to make a decision. The board has a proposal of great range of Adaptive Management flows from 30 to 50 percent of unimpaired flow. That is a huge negotiation space so the fact the board make as decision doesnt stop voluntary discussion. There is a opportunity to come up with solutions after the board makes the Water Quality decision but prior to adopting a water rights decision. That is a really pornts aspect of this to reflect. Chair woman marks encouraged you to step up to the the challenge. I say step up the responsibility. The is a responsibility San Francisco has to repair damage done and willingness of the people in San Francisco to Work Together to do that as previous speakers said. Work to identify solution tooz getd get our facts straight and improve flows in the san joaquin basin and protect San Francisco bay. Good to see you again. Christina [inaudible] christina [inaudible] and thank you for putting this on agenda. Im here as a representative of great water action and work teaching people to install the rain Water Systems and teach through bosca and worked on pu c sponsored programs. I see all the time the will of the people wanting to help the environment by saving water and barely tapped that. I encourage you to factor that into the figures that much more conservation can happen. People talk about carrying buckets of water from the showers out to the garden. They are willing to do that. Using rain water to flush toilets, that is a option. I hear many talks i go to that groundwater is pumped out from under the city to prevent flooding of under ground things. The groundwater is considered to be used for non potable use so why not look at the local Water Resources to offset having to take water from the rivers. I also particularly want to speak for sturgeon. I had the most amazing meal at scotts sea food of surgeon. Sturgeon used to be a huge fisry and 20 feet long and 2 thousand pounds in the delta. They are amazing creatures and 240 million years old. They eat Invasive Plant and aerate the system keeping it alive so it doesnt go dead like a lot of est wares have become so we need the sturgeon and the sturgeon need us to give high flows because it turns out they require high flows to spawn. They cannot go up stream where they spawn because they are blocked by dams so they need the high flows from february to june to spawn at all. So, because the eggs require a lot of oxygen and cold water and the flows to get down stream and flood to mature. We need these amazing creatures in the delta eco system. They have a right to exist and need the high flows so hope you will consider not only 40 percent but maybe 50 percent of unimpeded flows because other creatures matter not just human beings in our own wants and needs so speaking on that behalf. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is gerlen moran. Im here as someone who grew up learning about birds along the bay lands and i have fond memories of a lot of family outings backpacking in the toileomy and feel these are experiences that contributed to shaping who i am and im here today with a heart felt thank you for putting this in front of us to listen to us as citizens to talk about this really important topic. As you are hearing over and over, the delta is dying and regretbly we are the Invasive Species and we are orchestrating the crash whether we want to face it or not. Our population is continuing to increase and this resource is not increasing. This globe is a closed system and quee all know that too. Logic dictates then that we use our exceptional intelligence to right the giant wrong with everything we can do and muster. So that is where you come in as a commission and you are what i understand as a very environmentally aware and caring commissionism. Your back ground in environmental arenas assures me that you are listening to us today and you want to weigh the most current facts and influence positively what the next steps will be for our bay delta eco system. We all know now is likely the last big chance to turn this around and it is really frightening, but the seasonal adjusted water flow that the state water board is offering, 40 percent for the rivers we talked about it is weg come progress. I feel im grateful for that but emplor you to push for a true game changeer of 60 percent flow to match what scientist already see what is needed to save the fish and wild life. So recollect in closing, please study the most recent Data Collected and work with all of us. We are all in this together and nobody is going to get what they want, we have to Work Together. But, if we go downjust take a look conservice water at home and through industry we are already been talking about we reduced water just by all this great conservation and agree with previous speakers that people have ovall have good hearts and want to do the right thing and want to conserve but we can do more. 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