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The CEQA requires that the decision-making agency and the public be informed about the significant environmental effects of a project or program, and ways to avoid or reduce those environmental effects, before that project or program is approved. A PEIR is the environmental review process needed to analyze the potential environmental effects of large-scale plans or programs. A PEIR focuses on the big picture issues associated with the program, rather than on the details of each project or activity within it. Draft Program Environmental Impact Report The Draft PEIR for the Water System Improvement Program was available for public review from June 29, 2007 until 5:00 PM, Monday, October 15, 2007. The Draft PEIR evaluates the environmental effects of the proposed changes in water supply, including growth-inducing impacts, as well as the general environmental effects of implementing 22 facility projects in the WSIP. The San Francisco Planning Department, Major Environmental Analysis Division (MEA), is the Lead Agency under CEQA conducting the program environmental review of the WSIP. Response to Comments and Final PEIR The Response to Comments on the Draft PEIR PEIR is being prepared by MEA at this time. The Draft PEIR together with the Response to Comments document constitutes the Final PEIR. The Response to Comments document is scheduled for release in the fall of 2008. The San Francisco Planning Commission will then hold a hearing on the Final PEIR and then decide whether to certify it as a document that reflects the independent judgment and analysis of the San Francisco Planning Department and has been completed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act.The Final Program Environmental Impact Report can be downloaded and viewed at www.sfgov.org/site/planning/mea | |
Contact James Marks at (415) 554-3237 or via email at jmarks@sfwater.org
This program description presents a recommended program of water system improvements to meet level of service goals for seismic and delivery reliability, water supply and water quality selected by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on January 13, 2005. Read more
The General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) today recommended a proposal that will meet the future water supply demands of the SFPUC’s Bay Area retail and wholesale customers until 2018 while limiting additional water diversions from the Tuolumne River and committing the region to expanded water recycling, groundwater development and water conservation. The recommendation to the members of the SFPUC by General Manager Ed Harrington comes as the San Francisco Planning Department, after nearly three years of analysis, today issued the Final Program Environmental Impact Report (FPEIR) of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System Improvement Program. Read more
Scoping meetings across the SFPUC regional area highlighted the beginning of the programmatic environmental review of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s $4.3 billion Water System Improvement Program (WSIP). The meetings began in Sonora on October 5th and ended in San Francisco on October 18th. Read more
