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7 funds would be repaid from future connection fees. She added that if the financing were not backed by user fees, it may not occur at all or would be unbelievably expensive and would cost everyone. Ms. Acosta further explained that negotiation for this financing took a long time because staff was doing everything possible to protect the rate payers. Richard Lee, 4909 Winterbrook Avenue, indicated he was a former operations supervisor for DSRSD and refen'ed to the linkage between the LAVWMA pipeline and the reverse osmosis (RO) project. He believed that if the LAVWMA pipeline project is built, there will not be any possibility of overflow to the Alamo Canal and sufficient capacity for the planned growth will be guaranteed. Reverse osmosis will not do that. He then described the E1Nino storm event in 1998. He negotiated a swap for pumps. All capacity at the wastewater treatment plant was filled because of the series of storms. By swapping pumps, flows were mitigated and that averted a sewer oveffiow to the Alamo Canal. A 1996 report on storm flows projects more than 60 million gallons per day (mgd) of peak flows. If five million gallons per day mitigated the 30 million gallons coming, then to mitigate the second 30 mgd with only two and half mgd from RO will not help. His opinion was that is necessary to go forward and build the LAVWMA pipeline project. If it is necessary to link the pipeline with RO, Pleasanton could ask DSRSD not to inject RO because it will not mitigate a sewer overflow. Tom Ford, 7202 Tina Place, referred to comments about San Ramon and indicated the current San Ramon mayor supports creating its own sewer district. He believed there is a strong movement in the current DSRSD board oppose to RO injection. He has followed LAVWMA issues for years and was concerned that the only project ever considered was the "super sewer". He felt there was considerable pressure to set aside the DERWA project, which would do the same thing as the proposed LAVWMA pipeline at considerably less expense to Pleasanton. He felt it would also provide income of $10 million year from the sale of recycled water, would avoid $8 million of principal and interest on a 30-year, $120 million project, and would be more ecologically sound, because people in the San Ramon Valley are very short of water. They did not get a favorable ruling for American River water and are desperate. He felt they are more amenable to obtaining DERWA water. They could have up to 30,000 acre feet a year fforn the wastewater t~eaUnent plant. He felt half the water coming into the valley winds Up in the sewer, so there is 60,000 coming in now, 30,000 through the sewer, and Pleasanton would have a small use of that because of pipeline distances, etc. Dublin and East Dublin would be a big user and San Ramon would like to be a big user. He believed LAVWMA will run into two things, the severe demand in the valley for recycled water which will be in excess of 30,000 acre feet, and the State and Federal policies that will not allow discharge into bays or riven. In other words, the LAVWMA pipeline will not be allowed to be used. He believed by the time the pipeline is finished, it will be empty. In summary, he was convinced the LAVWMA project will be far more expensive than the DERWA project. Ple4mn~on City Council Minutes 14 12/05/00