Publication Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2004
By Marion Softky
Almanac Staff Writer

Two years after the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a $3.6 billion plan to upgrade the dilapidated Hetch-Hetchy system that provides water to 2.4 million people in four counties, suburban water agencies are getting nervous that not much seems to be happening.

“We must act to eliminate the risk for a human and economic catastrophe, if this system fails,” Redwood City Councilman Ira Ruskin told San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at a meeting June 28. “We look to you now for leadership.”

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