Following Storms, San Francisco's Water Reservoirs See Helpful Increases In Levels

CBS San Francisco

January 25, 2023

Water storage levels for San Francisco residents are at significantly high levels thanks to heavy rainfall in December and January, according to data from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Yosemite Valley's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, which serves 2.7 million San Francisco customers, is likely to fill to the brim, said Steven Ritchie, SFPUC assistant general manager of water enterprise, during a Tuesday commission meeting. Its precipitation levels is above those of 1983, which was its wettest year on record.

The reservoir currently has 291,000 acre feet of water and its capacity is 360,000 acre feet, and there is a hefty snowpack in the Sierra Nevada still to travel downstream.

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