Chinook salmon in the Tuolumne.

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Panel drops plan to add pipeline
Source: Monterey Herald
October 13, 2005

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will likely scrap plans for a fourth pipeline that would carry water from Yosemite National Park to consumers in the San Francisco Bay Area, a spokesman for the commission said.

The five-member commission had planned to add another pipeline, but talked Tuesday about instead refurbishing the existing ones. Susan Leal, the commission's general manager said the three pipelines can be improved for about $337 million instead of the $986 million it would cost to add a new one.

Tony Winnicker, the commission's spokesman, said the commission will consider the alternative plan in late November.