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Foster City steps up water conservation efforts

Posted by: Maven on December 29, 2009 at 7:10 am

From the San Mateo Daily Journal:

“Foster City is on the brink of adopting two ordinances that will significantly reduce water usage at any new developments or major remodels in the city.

Peninsula cities face limits on water usage until at least 2018 as imposed by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Foster City is one of the first Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency members to consider new laws aimed at saving water.

“We are trying to do everything we can to conserve,” said Foster City Mayor Rick Wykoff, who also sits on the BAWSCA board. “Water is the biggest single problem the Peninsula faces in the next 15 years.”

SFPUC imposed a 184-million-gallons-per-day limit to the entire BAWSCA 26-city and -district membership Oct. 31, 2008 and demands within the BAWSCA service area are projected to exceed available supplies by 2015, according to a staff report by Ramon Towne, Foster City’s director of Public Works. … “

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December 29, 2009 · Filed Under Bay Area

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