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Description
San Bruno City Council Meeting July 10, 2012
8b. Groundwater Management Plan for the South Westside Basin
B
Again,
honorable
mayor
and
council
member
good
evening,
I
have
here
with
me
Jim
blanky,
who
is
the
project
manager
for
the
project.
I
will
summarize
for
you,
the
history
of
the
project
and
also
the
purpose
of
the
project,
and
I
will
let
Jim
to
take
you
through
the
specific
recommendation
and
the
findings
of
the
plan
itself
and
then
at
the
end,
you
will
have
opportunity
for
clarifying
questions
and
comments.
B
Here
takes
long,
I
will
keep
talking
and
hopefully
had
the
slides
will
show
up.
They
are
not
dead
critical
and,
as
you
are
aware,
the
city
provides
drinking
water
to
our
residents,
health,
and
here
it
is
a
health
of
the
water,
is
provided
through
surface
water
through
the
Hetch
Hetchy
system
and
SFPUC
manage
and
provide
that
water
for
us.
He'll
help
of
the
water
comes
from
well
production
and
from.
B
The
groundwater
reason
why
maintaining
and
sustaining
the
quality
and
the
quantity
of
this
critical
resource
is
very
important
for
the
long-term
health
of
the
ceiling.
Reason
why
back
in
2007
and
the
city
took
the
leadership
role
and
was
lead
agency
and
requested
a
grant
from
the
water
resource
board,
in
collaboration
with
daly
city
and
Carl
ward,
who
are
partners
in
this
in
the
management
of
the
basin
and
also
in
the
application
for
the
grand
in
2009
you?
B
This
issue
came
against
before
you
and
you
approved
a
contract
for
prime
to
manage
the
development
of
this
groundwater
management
plan
and
also
the
end.
This
item
became
came
back
for
your
consideration
in
2010
when,
after
a
public
hearing,
you
expressed
your
intent
to
develop
a
grandmother
management
plan,
the
purpose
of
the
purpose
of
the
management
plan,
in
essence,
to
establish
a
collaborative
framework
for
the
long-term
sustainability
of
the
basin.
B
C
So,
as
Clara
mentioned,
you
know,
we
began
the
stakeholder
process
and
we
begin
the
document
itself
with
developing
a
common
technical
understanding
of
the
condition
of
the
groundwater
basin.
And
one
of
the
one
of
the
basic
questions
is
well
how
much?
How
much
can
we
pump?
How
much
can
we
pump
sustainably,
and
so
we
looked
at
as
far
as
sustainability
is
concerned?
C
You
can
see
here
we
have
recharged
of
8600
acre-feet
per
year,
and
we
can
compare
that
with
our
recent
pumping
and
we
can
see
that
those
those
numbers
are
pretty
close
and
balanced.
So
it's
showing
that
we're
able
to
maintain
our
current
levels
of
pumping
over
long-term
with
and
maintain
their
current
groundwater
levels,
and
we
took
that
information
and
and
plugged
it
back
into
the
model
for
a
more
robust
analysis
where
we
can
look
at
different
management
techniques
and
and
how
those
management
techniques
can
change
our
groundwater
levels
and
looked
at.
C
What's
really
the
maximum
amount
of
groundwater,
we
can
pump
and
maintain
zero
change
and
groundwater
elevations
and
we're
able
to
confirm
that
that
8600
acre-feet
per
year
is
really
there
that
level
we
defined.
That
is
our
base
and
capacity
yield
and,
and
that
is
again
very
close
to
our
current
production
of
about
80
564
acre-feet
per
year.
And
so
that's
the
base
and
wide
numbers
were
pretty
much
imbalanced
there
and
is
showing
their
current
conditions
are
going
to
be
able
to
maintain
the
groundwater
levels
for
years
to
come.
C
The
next
step
we
do
is
we
looked
at
the
the
2010
urban
water
management
plans
that
were
developed
by
all
the
agencies
and
the
basin
and
those
20
and
urban
water
management
plans,
provide
projections
of
future
groundwater
production
through
2030.
Some
of
them
through
2035-
and
we
added
them
all
together
and
looked
at
what
those
increases
over
time
we're
going
to
do
to
our
groundwater
basin
and
what
it
shows
is.
It
shows
a
slight
increase
in
groundwater
production
over
time
to
about
eighty
nine
hundred
acre
feet
per
year.
C
That's
a
couple
of
percent
increase
over
our
our
Basin
capacity
yield
and
given
the
range
of
climatic
variability
and
the
uncertainty
in
our
demand,
estimates
uncertainty
in
the
and
the
modeling,
and
we
feel
that
that
is
still
pretty
much
in
balance
and
still
pretty
much
shows
a
sustainable
level
of
groundwater
production.
In
the
basement.
C
So,
based
on
that
technical
understanding,
the
common
technical
understanding
that
we
came
to
with
the
stakeholders,
we
developed
a
management
framework
to
manage
the
basin
moving
forward,
and
we
did
this
through
a
water
term
to
basin
management
objectives
and
the
basin
management
objectives
basically
takes
our
overall
goal
and
splits
it
up
into
more
manageable
pieces
that
are
that
are
measurable
and
you
can
define
triggers
and
then
define
actions
that
you're
going
to
take
if
those
triggers
are
passed.
So
we
looked
at
five
different
areas.
C
C
So
if
it
goes
below
that
the
document
lists
a
series
of
actions
that
could
take
place
in
a
kind
of
tool
box
for
the
for
the
agencies
to
use
at
that
time
of
things
that
they
could
do,
none
of
them
to
prescribe
there's
no
actions
that
have
to
be
taken.
We
want
to
leave
the
flexibility
there,
because
you
know
conditions
change
over
time.
There'll
be
different
knowledge,
different
conditions,
since
they
want
to
be
able
to
be
flexible
on
how
to
react
if
those
thresholds
are
passed.
C
Similarly,
for
the
groundwater
quality,
we
want
to
maintain
or
improve
groundwater
quality,
and
we
focused
on
on
two
different
constituents.
Chloride
and
nitrate
chloride
is
an
indicator
of
seawater.
Intrusion
and
nitrate
is,
is
a
nutrient
that
we've
seen
war
in
the
more
towards
of
the
north
and
the
in
the
south,
san
francisco
daly
city
area,
and
we
set
the
chloride
threshold
at
ten
percent
above
the
historical
maximum.
Weist
want
to
keep
an
eye
on
our
chloride
levels
and
make
sure
that
we
don't
see
any
evidence
of
seawater
intrusion.
We
haven't
seen
any
yet.
C
We
want
to
make
sure
we
continue
to
monitor
that
and
be
aware
of
the
conditions
of
our
basin
and
then
for
nitrate.
We
set
that
eighty
percent
of
the
MCL,
the
maximum
contaminant
level
that's
set
by
DPA.
So
if
we
see
rising
nitrate
levels,
we
want
to
focus
it
on
those
wells
and
think
of
and
try
and
understand
why.
Those
are
increasing
if
they
are
and
what
kind
of
management
measures
can
be
taken
to
try
and
reduce
that
impact.
C
We
also
looked
at
limiting
the
impact
of
point
source
contamination,
so
these
are
the
United
Airlines
facility,
gas
stations,
dry
cleaners
that
may
have
leaking
underground
storage
tanks
and
there's
no
there's
no
quantitative
measure
for
this.
It's
mainly
just
making
sure
we
organize.
We
coordinate
with
the
with
the
lead
agency
for
those
cleanup
activities,
whether
that's
the
regional
bore,
the
EPA
or
the
San
Mateo
County.
We
also
looked
at
lance's
land
subsidence
monitoring,
land
subsidence,
hasn't
been
an
issue
in
the
San
Bruno
area
like
it
has
been
in
the
southern
part
of
the
bay.
C
We
want
to
make
sure
that
we
stay
on
top
of
that
and
see
if
that
becomes
an
issue
in
the
future.
We
also
looked
at
managing
interactions
of
our
groundwater
with
our
surface
water
and
see,
if
there's
opportunities
to
maybe
increase
recharge,
more
surface
water
courses
and
make
sure
that
the
groundwater
isn't
causing
a
problems
with
our
surface
water
courses
and
so
based
on
on
those
basin
management
objectives.
We
have
a
series
of
items
in
the
plan
that
will
help
us
meet
those
objectives.
C
First
and
foremost
is
maintaining
a
collaborative
approach
and
working
with
the
other
agencies
and
stakeholders
in
the
base
and
through
the
groundwater
task
force,
which
was
established
largely
through
our
advisory
committee,
we're
looking
to
pursue
additional
grants.
The
groaner
management
plan
was
funded
through
a
be
three
or
three
clamp
from
the
department
water
resources.
If
you
recall
the
city
received
a
previous
ad
three
or
three
grant
to
help
us
install
seawater
intrusion,
monitoring
wells
along
San,
Francisco
Bay.
So
it's
been
a
good
program
and
it
continues.
C
We
want
to
potentially
look
at
analyzing
shallow
groundwater
conditions
in
the
basin
and
how
we
might
be
able
to
improve
recharge
and
increase
our
ability
to
produce
groundwater
and
and
going
back
to
the
collaboration
framework.
We
want
to
be
able
to
continue
to
share
our
hydrogeological
knowledge
and
operational
information
so
that
all
the
stakeholders
can
benefit
from
all
that
knowledge.
Continue.
Monitoring
and
reporting
of
groundwater
conditions,
continue
our
meetings
with
stakeholders
and
update
the
plan
when
and
if
additional
information
is
available.
B
It
is
our
recommendation
for
you
to
approve
the
groundwater
management
plan
and
will
be
our
in
our
intent,
also
to
come
back,
probably
next
meeting
to
make
a
recommendation
for
you
to
support
the
grant
amplification
for
the
project.
What
Jim
just
was
referring
to
for
the
shallow
water
monitoring
and
also
updated
the
phloem
at
a
flow
monitoring
program.
Thank.
A
You
any
questions
of
staff
all
right
this
time.
This
is
a
public
hearing
and
open
the
public
hearing.
Would
anyone
in
the
public
like
to
address
the
council
on
this
side
agree
I,
close
the
public
hearing,
you're
gonna
be
precluded
from
discussing
it
with
us.
Any
action
move
to
close
public
hearing.
Second
motion.
Second:
on
the
question:
all
those
in
favor
hi,
your
discussion
or
action,
Irene.
D
Clara
toward
the
end
for
implementation,
it
talks
about
that
the
administration
of
this,
but
it
doesn't
really
name
who
or
what
agency
is
the
lead
agency
on
this
is
so
does
each
agency
that's
listed?
Is
each
agency
that's
listed
in
here,
accepting
the
same
ground
management
proposal
or
do
they
each
have
their
own
and
then
we're
still
getting
together
and
collaborating
or
I
I
didn't
quite
understand
how
it
actually
physically
works.
This.
B
B
The
reason
why
you
received
a
support
letter
and
not
a
approval
or
acceptance
that
practically
SFPUC
is
part
of
the
West
Side
basin,
but
not
the
south
west
side
basin
agency,
but
they
still
have
a
very
special
weak
and
strong
inter
interest
in
the
proper
management
of
the
southwest
side
basin.
Reason
why
they
express
their
support
and
their
intent
to
work
collaboratively
from
now
on
and
also
to
implement
the
plan
and
his
Daly
City
is
intending
to
have
on
their
console
agenda
for
the
next
month
or
so,
and
is
there
in
10
they
are.
B
They
are
supporting
everything
in
this
plan.
This
was
developed
in
collaboration
with
them
and
is
my
assumption
at
this
time
that
they
will
approve
this
plan.
How
is
presented
to
you
tonight,
of
course,
I,
cannot
guarantee
that,
but
certainly
based
on
the
information
today,
they
are
supportive
of
the
plan
and
use
that
intend
to
implement
the
plan.
Now
in
the
plan
itself,
they
are
included.
B
Many
possible
means
how
you
can
implement
this
management
plan
from
the
most
flexible
one
to
the
most
stringent
one
entering
in
joint
power
agreements
was
over
recommendation
at
this
time,
based
on
the
fact
that
this
will
be
the
first
ground.
Water
management
plan
approved
for
this
basin
and
the
information
level
can
be
further
improved
at
this
time
over
more
flexible
approach.
Managing
the
basin
through
a
collaborative
means
would
be
the
most
recommended
at
this
time
later
on.
The
agencies
will
feel
they
are
for
report
certain
reason
amo.
D
B
Now
the
city
was
the
lead
agency,
for
the
development
of
the
plan
will
be
our
intent
to
have
those
task
force
meeting
ongoing
basis
and
will
be
established
by
joint
agreement
by
that
group.
How
often
would
be
useful
to
have
those
ongoing
meetings,
maybe
later
on,
doesn't
necessarily
San?
Bruno
has
to
be
always
the
agency
who
will
call
on
those
meeting,
but
maybe
those
can
be
rotated
between
those
partners
and
agency,
but
everything
will
be
based
on
the
recommendation
and
the
proposal
in
these
plans.
I'm.
B
D
That's
I.
I
I've
seen
plans
and
I've
been
a
party
to
plans
where
we,
the
great,
we
ask
all
the
questions
and
they
sit
on
the
shelf
and
people
forget
about
them.
So
this
is
I.
Don't
want
that
to
happen.
I'm
I
know
you
wouldn't
let
it
happen,
but
just
making
sure
and
then
the
other
question
I
have
to
say.
Whoever
put
this
together
every
time,
I
had
a
question
I
kept
reading
in
the
next
page
answered
the
question
so
so
my
list
was
very
short
now.
D
It
talked
in
here
about
united
airlines
being
concerned
partner,
but
I
don't
understand
why
the
airport
as
a
whole
isn't.
I
know
they're
part
of
san
francisco,
puc
and
I
understand
all
that,
but
not
so
much
that
water
use,
because
that's
different,
but
the
contamination
part
I'm
very
concerned
that
they
as
a
whole
may
not
be
as
aware
or
as
stringent
watching
out
as
stringent
lee
as
they
could.
If
they're
not
more
a
part
of
this,
so
I
don't
know
if
that's
feasible
or
out,
you
know
out
the
door
or
what
you.
B
Are
absolutely
right-
and
probably
was
my
mistake
not
to
list
them
as
stakeholder
here,
but
certainly
they
were
invited
to
participate
in
the
development
of
the
plan
and
they
were
included
in
in
the
task
force
and
they,
if
I
remember
right,
they
attended
the
first
meeting.
They
expressed
some
interest,
they
were
informed
they,
basically
all
of
the
information
was
sent
to
them.
Also
they
were
more
silent,
but
they
were
participant
in
the
process
and
I
am
assuming
at
their
present,
stronger
presence
will
be
needed
based
on
their
history.
In.
E
B
E
F
E
F
Tobin
culture,
North
Commission
I,
have
some
of
my
fellow
commissioners
here:
Tammy
Parker
Pamela
gamble
and
Carolyn
Livengood
we'd
like
to
thank
you
for
this
opportunity
and
thank
you
for
your
continued
support
to
the
Commission.
After
listening
to
fees
and
expenses,
and
it's
nice
to
have
something.
That's
just
about
culture
and
arts.
F
So
the
purpose
of
the
Commission
were
responsible
for
promoting
the
artistic
development
of
the
community
and
preserving
San
Bruno's
diverse
cultural
heritage.
The
Commission's
goals
include:
acquiring
and
maintaining
an
inventory
of
public
art,
sponsoring
programs
and
events
that
enhance
the
quality
of
life
for
the
residents
and
improving
the
image
and
character
of
the
community.
F
In
the
past
year
we
have
dedicated
the
recognition,
sculpture
and
the
city
park,
piloted
public
art
exhibit
program,
we've
movies
in
the
park
Shakespeare
in
the
Park,
and
we've
welcomed
new
commissioners.
Our
news,
Commissioner
who's,
not
with
us
this
evening,
is
Pamela.
Madden
and
June
was
her
first
meeting,
so
we
are
excited
to
have
some
new
blood
on
our
Commission.
F
The
recognition
sculpture
project
was
a
joint
process
with
the
parks
and
recs
Commission.
Over
two
years
we
selected
aside
solicited
proposals
selected
an
artist
and
brought
to
life
the
council's
vision
of
a
recognition
sculpture
to
honor
those
who
have
served
San
Bruno,
we're
very
proud
of
this
joint
effort
and
the
results
is
produced.
F
The
art
exhibition
policy,
the
goal
of
this
is
to
encourage
local
artists
and
appreciation
of
art
in
the
community
to
provide
a
space
in
the
community
for
the
public
to
view
a
wide
variety
of
art.
The
policy
was
approved
in
April
of
2012,
and
a
call
for
artists
was
issued
in
this
past
June.
Our
first
exhibition
will
be
mounted
in
September
of
this
year
and
the
library
our
annual
event
movies
in
the
park.
What
we're
probably
most
known
for
is
sep
tember
and
friday
nights.
F
We
show
movies
in
the
park,
it's
a
coordinated
one
evening
with
the
family
overnight
in
the
park,
and
we
have
an
average
of
150
attendees
/
friday
night.
We
have
a
group
youth
activity
group
that
comes
in
cells,
treats
and
snacks,
and
everybody
has
generally
good
time.
The
weather
for
the
most
part,
still
holds
in
September
the
little
chilly,
but
everybody
bundles
up
and
has
a
great
time.
F
We've
also
have
Shakespeare
in
the
Park.
Usually
in
October
last
year
the
weather
was
unbelievable.
Everybody
came
in
shorts
and
t-shirts.
It
wasn't
as
well
attended
as
we'd
like
it
to
be,
but
hopefully
in
the
coming
years.
It
will
catch
on,
and
people
will
start
to
realize
that
October
for
us,
as
Shakespeare
in
the
Park,
the
projects
that
we
have
proposed
for
this
upcoming
year,
of
course,
movies
in
the
park.
F
The
family
movie,
we
won't
do
it
on
the
overnight,
but
is
a
family
movie,
and
we
do
plan
again
to
host
Shakespeare
in
the
Park
to
have
our
first
art
exhibit
and
to
continue
with
the
art,
exhibit
it's
a
12-month
program
and
we're
going
to
rotate
local
artists
every
quarter.
And
then
we
have
some
suggestions
for
future
projects,
which
we
of
course
will
bring
to
the
council.
We
have
something
to
bring
with
you
in
August
for
the
consent
calendar
some
of
our
ideas
for
future
projects.
F
The
commission
would
like
to
return
to
the
council
later
this
year
to
present
some
of
our
suggestions.
These
are
a
few
of
the
ideas.
We're
exploring
and
would
be
interested
in.
Any
feedback
council
has
to
offer
on
sneath
lane.
The
Commission
has
developed
a
list
of
potential
project
art
sites
after
reviewing
them
to
determine
land
ownership,
visibility,
project
type.
We
feel
the
retaining
walls
along
sneath
lane
west
of
280
are
good
possibility
because
the
property
is
city-owned.
F
It's
on
the
west
side
of
town,
where
there
currently
is
no
public
art
and
is
highly
visible
location,
performing
art
possibilities.
We've
discussed
partnering
to
bring
some
community
theater
poetry
or
possibly
having
life
classical
music
during
lunch
times
at
the
Bay
Hill
area,
to
promote
relationships
with
our
business
community,
and
that
is
what
I
have
short
and
sweet
council
have
any
questions.
Any.
D
I
think
it's
wonderful,
I'm
so
excited
to
see
the
recognition
sculpture
up.
It
was
fabulous
and
if
anyone
hasn't
had
a
chance
to
see
it
yet
it's
in
san
bruno
park
and
it's
next
it's
on
to
the
left
side
of
the
recreation
building
in
between
the
park
in
between
the
pool
in
the
recreation
building.
It's
wonderful,
I
have
a
question
or
an
idea
throughout
or
something
and
the
year
2014
is
our
city's
100th
anniversary,
you're
nodding,
sighs.
F
Are
open
to
partnerships
and
one
of
what
we
do
is
we
try
to
partner
with
other
community
bits
and
we've
actually
had
someone
come
and
do
a
presentation
to
us
about
the
hundredth
anniversary
of
the
school
system
and
that
we
are
looking
for
the
hundredth
anniversary
of
the
city,
and
we
will
we
will
be
doing
something
if
it
is
definitely
something
we
will
put
on
our
agenda.
We
are
here
to
do
at
your
direction.
F
E
Can't
agree
with
you
more
I
mean
what,
with
all
of
this
controversial
type
of
decision
making
we
make.
You
know
it
is
a
nice
nice
relief
to
you
know
to
to
review.
You
know
public
article
contains
and
I
I,
give
it
all
to
her
we've
been
on
here
many
years
and
didn't
think
that
it
was
that
that
important
back
then,
but
Irene
kept
kept
ringing
board.
E
So
I'm
proud
of
her
for
that,
and
thank
you
for
that
I'm
I'm.
Looking
for
more
involvement
with
kids
and
I,
think
I
and
I
believe
the
culture
and
article
commission
got
sort
of
got
involved
with
the
fire
department
with
the
fire
prevention
posters,
big
response
from
all
the
schools,
and
that-
and
I
think
maybe
you
know
we
can
expand
on
that,
because
kids
are
the
future
and
you
know
they're,
very
artistic
and
they're
very
creative.
You
know-
maybe
you
know
some
component
with
that,
because
I
see
her
exhibition
going
towards.
F
Than
kids,
okay,
we
did
help
sponsor
the
first
day
of
the
child
day
of
the
book.
It's
something
and
I'm
not
saying
it
correctly
in
the
city
park,
which
has
become
an
annual
event.
So
we
are,
we
are
here
to
sponsor
and
help
and
coordinate
any
events
or
other
community
programs
that
need
a
little
assistance.
F
One
of
the
something
that
we
have
going
coming
to
us
is
we've
reached
out
to
east
palo
alto
has
a
music
and
art
program
that
we've
asked
them
to
come
and
do
a
presentation
to
us
and
it's
it's
sort
of
youth
art
kind
of
I
believe
it
started
with,
may
be
tagging
and
turning
that
into
an
art
form.
So
we've
asked
them
to
come
and
give
us
a
presentation
to
see
how
they've
managed
to
get
their
young
people
involved
in
public
art
in
a
positive
manner,
instead
of
a
destructive
manner.
A
Well,
as
I
always
say,
the
boards
commissions
and
committees
of
the
city
or
the
lifeblood
of
the
city,
because
it's
all
volunteer,
it's
a
lot
of
times
a
lot
of
work,
but
it's
a
lot
of
fun.
So
I
can't
say
enough
on
behalf
of
the
entire
city
of
San
Bruno.
Thank
you
very,
very
much.
You've
accomplished
a
lot
and
I
go
along
with
everything
you
said.
As
long,
you
don't
show
jaws
at
the
hundredth
anniversary
movies
in
the
park,
but
thank
you
very
much.