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San Francisco's water supply comes from three major sources: Hetch Hetchy Reservoir high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and two local watersheds in Alameda County and the Peninsula.

Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, located in Yosemite National Park, provides approximately 85 percent of San Francisco's total water needs. Spring snowmelt flows down the Tuolumne River and fills Hetch Hetchy, the largest reservoir in the SFPUC system. The Hetch Hetchy water supply meets all federal and state criteria for watershed protection, disinfection treatment, bacteriological quality and operational standards. As a result, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and California Department of Health Services (DOHS) granted the Hetch Hetchy water source a filtration exemption. This exemption is contingent upon the Hetch Hetchy water quality continuing to meet all regulatory criteria.

Together the Alameda and Peninsula watersheds produce about 15 percent of the total SFPUC water supply. Six reservoirs capture rainfall and runoff from nearby hills. The Alameda watershed, located in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, contributes surface water supplies captured and stored in two reservoirs, Calaveras and San Antonio. The Sunol Filter Galleries near the Town of Sunol are groundwater sources supplying less than one percent of San Francisco's water. The Peninsula watershed in San Mateo County contributes surface water supplies captured and stored in lower and upper Crystal Springs and San Andreas Reservoirs and in two smaller reservoirs, Pilarcitos and Stone Dam. These local water sources and groundwater from the Sunol Filter Galleries are treated and filtered before delivery.

The sources of drinking water include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally-occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity.
Contaminants that may be present in source water include: Microbial, Inorganic, Pesticides and Herbicides, and Radio active contaminants.
 

San Francisco Water Quality Report

Table of 2002 City of San Francisco Water Quality Data (1) (2)

DETECTED CONTAMINANTS

Unit

MCL

PHG (4)
(MCLG
(5))

Range

Average

Typical Sources in Drinking Water

TURBIDITY (5) (City of San Francisco Treated Water)

Turbidity - Tesla Portal
(Hetch Hetchy Water)

NTU

5 (7)

N

0.20 - 0.66

0.33

Soil run-off

Turbidity - Harry Tracy Treatment Plant

NTU

0.3 (8)

N

0.06 - 0.29

0.08

Soil run-off

Turbidity - Sunol Valley Water Treatment Plant

NTU

0.3 (8)

N

0.06 - 0.18

0.08

Soil run-off

ORGANIC CHEMICALS (City of San Francisco Treated Water)

Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs) (16)

ppb

80

N

29 -104

58

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Total Haloacetic Acids (HAAs) (16)

ppb

60

N

5 - 33

15

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Total Haloacetonitriles (HANs) (9)

ppb

NS

N

1 - 2

2

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Total Haloketones (HKs)

ppb

NS

N

<0.5 -1

1

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Chloropicrin (CP)

ppb

NS

N

<0.5 -1

1

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Total Aldehydes (9)

ppb

NS

N

10 - 28

19

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Chloral Hydrate

ppb

NS

N

<0.5 - 13

8

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Total Organic Halides (TOX) (9)

ppb

NS

N

<50 - 211

173

By-product of drinking water chlorination

MICROBIOLOGICAL (City of San Francisco Treated Water)

Total Coliform

%

5 (10)

(0)

0 - 0.7

0.2

Naturally present in the environment

INORGANIC CHEMICALS

 

Arsenic (11)

ppb

50

N

<2 - 2

<2

Erosion of natural deposits, soil run-off

Chlorate (9)

ppb

NS

N

23 -340

150

By-product of drinking water chlorination

Natural Fluoride (11)

ppm

2

1

<0.1 - 0.3

0.2

Erosion of natural deposits

Nitrate (as NO3) (11)

ppm

45

45

<2 - 2

<2

Erosion of natural deposits, soil run-off

Chlorine - City of San Francisco Treated Water

ppm

MRDL=4 (17)

MRDL=4 (17)

0.01 - 2.2

0.6

Drinking water disinfectant added for treatment

 

 

Unit

AL (12)

PHG

Range

90th
Percentile

Typical Sources in Drinking Water

LEAD AND COPPER RULE STUDY (13)

Copper

ppb

1300

170

11 - 350

120

Corrosion of household plumbing systems

Lead

ppb

15

2

<2 - 59

7

Corrosion of household plumbing systems

 

 

Unit

SMCL(3)

Range

Average

Secondary Standards -
Source Water
(11)

Iron

ppb

300

<100 -160

<100

Chloride

ppm

500

<3 - 23

11

Specific Conductance

uS/cm

1600

8 - 340

195

Sulfate

ppm

500

0.6 - 25

12

Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)

ppm

1000

<5 - 190

104

Secondary Standards -
Treated Water
(14)

Color

unit

15

<5 - 24

<5

Odor Threshold

TON

3

<1 - 2

<1

 

OTHER CONSTITUENTS -
Treated Water
(14) (18)

Unit

SMCL (3)

Range

Average

Alkalinity (as CaCO3)

ppm

NS

13 - 120

63

Boron (15)

ppb

NS

<100 - 180

<100

Calcium

ppm

NS

4 - 31

16

Fluoride - City of San Francisco Treated Water

ppm

NS

0.1 - 1.3

1.0

Hardness (as CaCO3)

ppm

NS

10 - 142

64

Magnesium

ppm

NS

<0.5 - 11

6

pH

Units

NS

7.4 - 9.8

9.0

Potassium

ppm

NS

<0.5 - 1.0

0.5

Silica

ppm

NS

5 - 6

5

Sodium

ppm

NS

3 - 22

13

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