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SECTIONONE<br />

Introduction<br />

1.3 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WHOLESALE CUSTOMER SERVICE<br />

AREA<br />

Figure 1-1 illustrates the location of the 28 wholesale customers. In general, the wholesale<br />

customers are located throughout the Bay Area’s different microclimates with some serving cool<br />

coastal areas and others in the warmer inland areas. The wholesale customer service areas vary<br />

dramatically in size and character. For example, Los Trancos County <strong>Water</strong> District<br />

encompasses 4.5 square miles and serves approximately 270 residential accounts, while Alameda<br />

County <strong>Water</strong> District encompasses approximately 103 square miles serving 77,000 residential,<br />

commercial, industrial, and institutional accounts. Appendix A provides a brief description of<br />

each wholesale customer that purchases water from the <strong>SFPUC</strong> and participated in this study.<br />

The following sections of this report provide more detailed information on their water use.<br />

1.4 FORMAT OF THIS REPORT<br />

This report consists of the following four main sections:<br />

• Approach to Developing <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Demand</strong> <strong>Projections</strong><br />

• Establishing Base-Year Conditions<br />

• <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Demand</strong> Forecasting<br />

• <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Demand</strong> <strong>Projections</strong><br />

The first section, Approach to Developing <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Demand</strong> <strong>Projections</strong>, provides a description<br />

of the DSS model used to develop the water demand forecasts. The section introduces the model,<br />

its general characteristics, and how it works. The section defines the two primary steps to<br />

developing water demand projections (1) establishing base-year conditions and (2) developing<br />

water demand forecasts from those base-year conditions.<br />

The second section, Establishing Base-Year Conditions, describes the process for establishing<br />

base-year conditions for each individual wholesale customer. This section also provides detailed<br />

information on the existing water demands for each wholesale customer.<br />

The third section, <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Demand</strong> Forecasting, explains how the water demand forecasts were<br />

developed from the base-year conditions using the DSS model.<br />

The last section, <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Demand</strong> <strong>Projections</strong>, provides the actual water demand projections for<br />

the <strong>SFPUC</strong> wholesale customer service area out to the year 2030. The results provided in this<br />

section reflect the total demand of each wholesale customer out to 2030, not the amount of water<br />

estimated to be purchased from the <strong>SFPUC</strong> in 2030. The amount of water estimated to be<br />

purchased from the <strong>SFPUC</strong> in 2030 is documented in a technical memorandum, <strong>SFPUC</strong><br />

<strong>Wholesale</strong> <strong>Customer</strong> <strong>Water</strong> Purchase Estimates (<strong>SFPUC</strong> 2004). This section also describes the<br />

wholesale customer concurrence process associated with the DSS water demand projections.<br />

1-4

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