Draining the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir - the source of more than 85% of the water supplying 2.4 million Bay Area residents - could cost up to $10 billion, require massive investments in new water and power infrastructure for Northern California and put the Bay Area’s water and power reliability at risk, according to an assessment released by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). The assessment - the product of more than a year of analysis and study by DWR staff - also highlights the many legal and technical challenges of proposals to drain Hetch Hetchy, and questions whether the State of California even has jurisdiction over the existence of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, located in Yosemite National Park and granted to the Bay Area by the U.S. Congress in 1913 under the Raker Act.
This is the agenda of the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on July 25, 2006. Read more |  The SFPUC, the Port of San Francisco and one of the nation’s leading cruise lines have announced a historic partnership between the City and the cruise ship industry to reduce toxic diesel fuel emissions from cruise ships that pay a call to the Port of San Francisco by as much as 80%. Read more | Yosemite National Park announced that public scoping in preparation of the Tuolumne Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan/Tuolumne Meadows Plan and Environmental Impact Statement will begin Wednesday, July 12, in Modesto. Other areas will also host scoping meetings. Read more |