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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area is defined by water. Not just by the bay itself, but by the Pacific Ocean and myriad rivers, reservoirs, lakes and ponds. Yet most of the bodies of water you drive past are devoid of people. No swimming. No splashing around. Not even on the hottest days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer this question, we had to drive out to one of the few places you’re allowed to swim: Lake Del Valle near Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#whereswim\">Places you \u003cem>can\u003c/em> swim around the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Lake Del Valle is the \u003cem>only\u003c/em> reservoir used for drinking water that you can also swim at in the whole Bay Area. And that basically answers the question: You can’t swim in most lakes around the Bay Area, because most lakes around here are really reservoirs used for drinking water supplies, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&division=104.&title=&part=10.&chapter=5.&article=1.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California law\u003c/a> bans “body contact” in drinking water reservoirs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Except as provided in this article, recreational uses shall not, with respect to a reservoir in which water is stored for domestic use, include recreation in which there is bodily contact with the water by any participant.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That means hiking and boating are fine, because body contact is minimal, but no swimming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A r\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">eservoir is a natural or artificial lake that stores water for flood control, agriculture or drinking water. The drinking water reservoirs are\u003c/span> what we’re primarily concerned about here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when California was building \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Programs/State-Water-Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the State Water Project \u003c/a>— the massive series of dams and reservoirs that bring water from Northern to Southern California — it commissioned a study to find out how clean all those reservoirs were. That study found non-body contact (such as hiking and boating) didn’t significantly impact the water quality, but swimming could lead to fecal coliform and other bacteria (i.e., from poop and pee).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based in part on that report, the state developed a set of guidelines in the 1970s for our drinking water reservoirs. And swimming has been banned ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should be noted, however, that it appears a number of water districts remained somewhat unaware of the regulations until the state started to crack down much later. For example, swimming was allowed in some Santa Clara County reservoirs through 1990—until the department of health let the water district know swimming was banned in drinking water storage facilities. (The county later did \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Documents/final-countywide-swim-feasibility-study-reduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a feasibility study\u003c/a> to see if a swimming spot could be built because of public demand. But nothing came of it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' citation='Kurt Souza, assistant deputy director for the Division of Drinking Water']‘I’m not sure if you’d make the same law today.’[/pullquote]Kurt Souza, assistant deputy director for the Division of Drinking Water, said back when the regulations were written, water wasn’t filtered first. It was just pulled out of the reservoir, treated with chlorine or other chemicals, and then sent down our taps. So there was a need for it to be very clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filtration requirements started around 1990, and these days water treatment is a lot better. There are a lot more options for first filtering the water and then treating it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means, if we were writing the law today, we probably wouldn’t need to ban swimming everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure if you’d make the same law today,” said Souza. “You’d probably make it the other way, where you would require a certain amount of treatment for a certain type of recreation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/24/why-cant-you-swim-in-most-of-the-bay-area-lakes/img_3561/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11782228\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11782228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bay Curious team on the case at Lake Del Valle. \u003ccite>(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OK, so we want our water to be clean, but what about the birds and the animals? They get the water dirty, too.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, birds pooping in the water is bad, but it’s just not as bad. Although there are some reservoirs where animal fecal matter does become an issue, largely human pathogens are what get humans sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But you’re allowed to swim in drinking water reservoirs in other states and countries. Why not here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, sorry, California has different rules developed in a different time. California is also a drought state, so those reservoirs can get really small and the water can sit around for a lot longer. That’s partially why you’ll see more places on the East Coast that allow swimming. Because it rains more there, the water turns over fast. That’s also why we have different rules here for rivers and moving bodies of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OK, so why can you swim in Lake Del Valle? And how can I get swimming allowed at *my* lake?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the law was written, there were specific exceptions listed — all of which come with requirements for additional treatment and testing. For example, all of San Diego County got an exemption for their reservoirs a long time ago. And all State Water Project reservoirs were exempted as part of the arrangement to get voters to approve funding for the project. Lake Del Valle is part of the State Water Project. There are no other exemptions in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, if you want a new exemption to allow swimming at a reservoir near you, then you have to get a law passed by the state Legislature. The last time one of those got signed into law was in 2013 for Bear Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 802px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/24/why-cant-you-swim-in-most-of-the-bay-area-lakes/contra-loma-3-800w/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11781732\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11781732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w.jpg 802w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The swimming lagoon at Contra Loma is filtered, chlorinated and separated from the reservoir behind it. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of East Bay Regional Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"whereswim\">\u003c/a>Where \u003cem>can\u003c/em> you swim around the Bay Area?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are some amazing swimming locales farther afield — in the foothills or down toward Big Sur — but if you want to keep it closer to home, here are a bunch of Bay Area swimming spots where jumping in the water \u003cem>is\u003c/em> allowed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The beach!\u003c/strong> Aquatic Park in San Francisco is a very popular swimming destination for hard-core swimmers. For a more casual experience, head to China Beach in the city, McNears Beach at \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China Camp State Park\u003c/a> in San Rafael, Oyster Cove Beach at \u003ca href=\"https://www.smharbor.com/oyster-point-marina-park-650-952-0808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oyster Point Park\u003c/a> in South San Francisco,\u003ca href=\"https://parks.smcgov.org/coyote-point-recreation-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Coyote Point\u003c/a> in San Mateo or \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/crown_beach/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crown Memorial Beach\u003c/a> in Alameda. There are also a number of more secluded beaches off \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomales Bay\u003c/a>, like Heart’s Desire.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/shadow_cliffs/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shadow Cliffs\u003c/a> (Pleasanton):\u003c/strong> Formerly a gravel quarry, this lake in Pleasanton is operated by the East Bay Regional Park District. Lifeguards are on duty at the swimming beach in the summer, but swimming is allowed year-round at your own risk.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/don_castro/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Castro\u003c/a> (Hayward):\u003c/strong> No swimming or boating is allowed on the reservoir lake, but the chlorinated and filtered lagoon located next to it allows swimming. Swimming is allowed there only in the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/contra_loma/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contra Loma\u003c/a> (Antioch):\u003c/strong> Fun fact: Contra Loma was actually the site of a dispute over whether people should be allowed to swim in water used for drinking supplies. State regulators said no, and the result is a swimming lagoon built (and chlorinated) separated from the reservoir. Open from the spring through fall, the lagoon does reach capacity.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/cull_canyon/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cull Canyon\u003c/a> (Castro Valley):\u003c/strong> A secondary dam was built to create this swimming lagoon with a sandy beach separate from the reservoir, but still surrounded by open space. Swimming is allowed only when lifeguards are on duty in the summer and does reach capacity.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/quarry_lakes/\">Quarry Lakes\u003c/a> (Hayward): \u003c/strong>There is a swimming complex with a white sand beach, restrooms and lifeguards at this recreation area run by the East Bay Regional Park District. There is a fee and it does reach capacity. Additionally, the swimming area can be closed due to low water levels.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/temescal/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Temescal\u003c/a> (Oakland):\u003c/strong> Closed until the spring, Lake Temescal does permit swimming with or without lifeguards when the water quality is good enough. Unfortunately, during the winter the water quality is often poor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden/botanic_garden.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Anza\u003c/a> (Berkeley):\u003c/strong> In Tilden Regional Park, Lake Anza has a small sandy beach open from April to November for a small entrance fee — if the water quality is acceptable. When bacteria levels are high, the lake closes to the public.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And, of course, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/del_valle/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Del Valle\u003c/a> (Livermore):\u003c/strong> The lake is surrounded by over 4,000 acres of land used for hiking, camping and horseback riding. There are two swimming beaches, one on each side of the large lake. Lifeguards are on duty during the spring through fall, though swimming is allowed year-round at your own risk.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>North Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bass Lake (Bolinas)\u003c/strong>: Bass Lake is one of the few lakes in Marin County that isn’t a drinking water reservoir — and therefore one of the few you can swim at. Bass Lake can be found near the southern end of \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a;\" href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Point Reyes Seashore \u003c/a>via a hike down the Coastal Trail from the Alamere Falls trailhead. It’s a bit of a hike and scramble down to the water, but it’s closer than another swimmable lake farther up the trail, Pelican Lake.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Inkwells (Lagunitas):\u003c/strong> A bit of a open secret in Marin, the Inkwells are a series of natural rock pools just as you enter Samuel P. Taylor State Park, off to the side of Sir Francis Drake. When the rain has been heavy, the water flows fast from Kent Lake down to San Geronimo Creek and through the pools.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/Visit/Spring-Lake-Regional-Park/Water-Park/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spring Lake\u003c/a> (Santa Rosa):\u003c/strong> The massive Spring Lake Regional Park, run by the county, includes a swimming lagoon filled with filtered water and open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. There’s also a water park for kids made up of an inflatable playground.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Russian River:\u003c/strong> With swimming beaches and spots all up and down the Russian River, it’s hard to pick just one. Certainly, Johnson’s Beach in Guerneville is a popular spot, though it can get crowded in the summer. Same with Monte Rio Community Beach. \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/Visit/Healdsburg-Veterans-Memorial-Beach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healdsburg Veterans Memorial Beach\u003c/a> is easy to get to and the swimming area is created with a temporary dam on the river in the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.spn.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Lake-Sonoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Sonoma\u003c/a> (Geyserville):\u003c/strong> Run by the Army Corps of Engineers, Lake Sonoma allows swimming at your own risk anywhere you can safely get in. Try Yorty Creek or the Warm Springs recreation area. A warning: The lake is far more popular as a boating destination, so be careful if you’re swimming.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/mp/ccao/berryessa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Berryessa\u003c/a> (Napa County):\u003c/strong> Lake Berryessa is a reservoir, but it’s a reservoir used for irrigation and flood control. That means swimming is allowed. All swimming is at your own risk; there are no lifeguards here either. Oaks Shores and Smittle Creek are the most popular day use areas with bathrooms, picnic areas and parking.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>South Bay + Peninsula\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If you remember swimming in Almaden Lake not that long ago, you might be surprised to know you can’t anymore. It’s been closed because of water pollution for a few years as the lake undergoes \u003ca href=\"https://www.valleywater.org/project-updates/almaden-lake-improvement-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an improvement and cleanup project\u003c/a>. Santa Clara County, in general, does not allow swimming in its lakes and reservoirs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garden of Eden\u003c/a> (Felton):\u003c/strong> Another natural swimming hole that requires a hike, the Garden of Eden is just that: an Eden inside the Henry Cowell Redwoods. In the summer, you can park at the day use area off Highway 9 in Felton and cross the seasonal bridge. But in the winter, you have to walk in from the Ox Fire Road trailhead.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsanmateo.org/3340/Parkside-Aquatic-Park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parkside Aquatic Park\u003c/a> (San Mateo):\u003c/strong> The only way to get here is through a whole bunch of residential neighborhoods, but once at the park you’ll find a moderately warm sandy beach next to a lagoon with a roped-off swim area during the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/departments/public-works/storm/redwood-shores-lagoon\">Redwood Shores Lagoon\u003c/a> (Redwood City)\u003c/strong>: Run by the city, the lagoon serves as a stormwater retention pond, but it also allows non-motorized boating, swimming and fishing. Swimming is at your own risk and you should watch out for boats.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fostercity.org/parksrec/page/water-activities\">Foster City Lagoon\u003c/a> (Foster City)\u003c/strong>: Foster City streets drain into this salt-water lagoon. The bacteria levels are tested regularly and if there is contamination posing a health risk then signs are posted at the beaches. Swimming is allowed at your own risk.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://parks.smcgov.org/memorial-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memorial Park\u003c/a> (Loma Mar):\u003c/strong> This nearly-500-acre park includes a swimming hole where the creek crosses through the park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Uvas (Morgan Hill):\u003c/strong> If you’ve ever done an organized swim, triathlon or aquathon at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/UvasReservoir.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UVAS Reservoir\u003c/a> in Morgan Hill, then you’re probably thinking you can swim there anytime. You can’t. Swimming is, generally speaking, not allowed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Did we miss your favorite swimming spot? Let us know. \u003ca href=\"mailto:baycurious@kqed.org\">baycurious@kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*We’ve added more swimming spots based on your recommendations.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Bay Area is defined by water. Not just by the bay itself, but by the Pacific Ocean and myriad rivers, reservoirs, lakes and ponds. Yet most of the bodies of water you drive past are devoid of people. No swimming. No splashing around. Not even on the hottest days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer this question, we had to drive out to one of the few places you’re allowed to swim: Lake Del Valle near Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#whereswim\">Places you \u003cem>can\u003c/em> swim around the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Lake Del Valle is the \u003cem>only\u003c/em> reservoir used for drinking water that you can also swim at in the whole Bay Area. And that basically answers the question: You can’t swim in most lakes around the Bay Area, because most lakes around here are really reservoirs used for drinking water supplies, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&division=104.&title=&part=10.&chapter=5.&article=1.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California law\u003c/a> bans “body contact” in drinking water reservoirs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Except as provided in this article, recreational uses shall not, with respect to a reservoir in which water is stored for domestic use, include recreation in which there is bodily contact with the water by any participant.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That means hiking and boating are fine, because body contact is minimal, but no swimming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A r\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">eservoir is a natural or artificial lake that stores water for flood control, agriculture or drinking water. The drinking water reservoirs are\u003c/span> what we’re primarily concerned about here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when California was building \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Programs/State-Water-Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the State Water Project \u003c/a>— the massive series of dams and reservoirs that bring water from Northern to Southern California — it commissioned a study to find out how clean all those reservoirs were. That study found non-body contact (such as hiking and boating) didn’t significantly impact the water quality, but swimming could lead to fecal coliform and other bacteria (i.e., from poop and pee).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based in part on that report, the state developed a set of guidelines in the 1970s for our drinking water reservoirs. And swimming has been banned ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should be noted, however, that it appears a number of water districts remained somewhat unaware of the regulations until the state started to crack down much later. For example, swimming was allowed in some Santa Clara County reservoirs through 1990—until the department of health let the water district know swimming was banned in drinking water storage facilities. (The county later did \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Documents/final-countywide-swim-feasibility-study-reduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a feasibility study\u003c/a> to see if a swimming spot could be built because of public demand. But nothing came of it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kurt Souza, assistant deputy director for the Division of Drinking Water, said back when the regulations were written, water wasn’t filtered first. It was just pulled out of the reservoir, treated with chlorine or other chemicals, and then sent down our taps. So there was a need for it to be very clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filtration requirements started around 1990, and these days water treatment is a lot better. There are a lot more options for first filtering the water and then treating it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means, if we were writing the law today, we probably wouldn’t need to ban swimming everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure if you’d make the same law today,” said Souza. “You’d probably make it the other way, where you would require a certain amount of treatment for a certain type of recreation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/24/why-cant-you-swim-in-most-of-the-bay-area-lakes/img_3561/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11782228\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11782228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_3561-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bay Curious team on the case at Lake Del Valle. \u003ccite>(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OK, so we want our water to be clean, but what about the birds and the animals? They get the water dirty, too.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, birds pooping in the water is bad, but it’s just not as bad. Although there are some reservoirs where animal fecal matter does become an issue, largely human pathogens are what get humans sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But you’re allowed to swim in drinking water reservoirs in other states and countries. Why not here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, sorry, California has different rules developed in a different time. California is also a drought state, so those reservoirs can get really small and the water can sit around for a lot longer. That’s partially why you’ll see more places on the East Coast that allow swimming. Because it rains more there, the water turns over fast. That’s also why we have different rules here for rivers and moving bodies of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OK, so why can you swim in Lake Del Valle? And how can I get swimming allowed at *my* lake?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the law was written, there were specific exceptions listed — all of which come with requirements for additional treatment and testing. For example, all of San Diego County got an exemption for their reservoirs a long time ago. And all State Water Project reservoirs were exempted as part of the arrangement to get voters to approve funding for the project. Lake Del Valle is part of the State Water Project. There are no other exemptions in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, if you want a new exemption to allow swimming at a reservoir near you, then you have to get a law passed by the state Legislature. The last time one of those got signed into law was in 2013 for Bear Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 802px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/24/why-cant-you-swim-in-most-of-the-bay-area-lakes/contra-loma-3-800w/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11781732\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11781732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w.jpg 802w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/contra-loma-3-800w-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The swimming lagoon at Contra Loma is filtered, chlorinated and separated from the reservoir behind it. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of East Bay Regional Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"whereswim\">\u003c/a>Where \u003cem>can\u003c/em> you swim around the Bay Area?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are some amazing swimming locales farther afield — in the foothills or down toward Big Sur — but if you want to keep it closer to home, here are a bunch of Bay Area swimming spots where jumping in the water \u003cem>is\u003c/em> allowed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The beach!\u003c/strong> Aquatic Park in San Francisco is a very popular swimming destination for hard-core swimmers. For a more casual experience, head to China Beach in the city, McNears Beach at \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China Camp State Park\u003c/a> in San Rafael, Oyster Cove Beach at \u003ca href=\"https://www.smharbor.com/oyster-point-marina-park-650-952-0808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oyster Point Park\u003c/a> in South San Francisco,\u003ca href=\"https://parks.smcgov.org/coyote-point-recreation-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Coyote Point\u003c/a> in San Mateo or \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/crown_beach/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crown Memorial Beach\u003c/a> in Alameda. There are also a number of more secluded beaches off \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomales Bay\u003c/a>, like Heart’s Desire.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/shadow_cliffs/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shadow Cliffs\u003c/a> (Pleasanton):\u003c/strong> Formerly a gravel quarry, this lake in Pleasanton is operated by the East Bay Regional Park District. Lifeguards are on duty at the swimming beach in the summer, but swimming is allowed year-round at your own risk.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/don_castro/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Castro\u003c/a> (Hayward):\u003c/strong> No swimming or boating is allowed on the reservoir lake, but the chlorinated and filtered lagoon located next to it allows swimming. Swimming is allowed there only in the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/contra_loma/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contra Loma\u003c/a> (Antioch):\u003c/strong> Fun fact: Contra Loma was actually the site of a dispute over whether people should be allowed to swim in water used for drinking supplies. State regulators said no, and the result is a swimming lagoon built (and chlorinated) separated from the reservoir. Open from the spring through fall, the lagoon does reach capacity.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/cull_canyon/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cull Canyon\u003c/a> (Castro Valley):\u003c/strong> A secondary dam was built to create this swimming lagoon with a sandy beach separate from the reservoir, but still surrounded by open space. Swimming is allowed only when lifeguards are on duty in the summer and does reach capacity.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/quarry_lakes/\">Quarry Lakes\u003c/a> (Hayward): \u003c/strong>There is a swimming complex with a white sand beach, restrooms and lifeguards at this recreation area run by the East Bay Regional Park District. There is a fee and it does reach capacity. Additionally, the swimming area can be closed due to low water levels.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/temescal/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Temescal\u003c/a> (Oakland):\u003c/strong> Closed until the spring, Lake Temescal does permit swimming with or without lifeguards when the water quality is good enough. Unfortunately, during the winter the water quality is often poor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden/botanic_garden.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Anza\u003c/a> (Berkeley):\u003c/strong> In Tilden Regional Park, Lake Anza has a small sandy beach open from April to November for a small entrance fee — if the water quality is acceptable. When bacteria levels are high, the lake closes to the public.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And, of course, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/del_valle/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Del Valle\u003c/a> (Livermore):\u003c/strong> The lake is surrounded by over 4,000 acres of land used for hiking, camping and horseback riding. There are two swimming beaches, one on each side of the large lake. Lifeguards are on duty during the spring through fall, though swimming is allowed year-round at your own risk.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>North Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bass Lake (Bolinas)\u003c/strong>: Bass Lake is one of the few lakes in Marin County that isn’t a drinking water reservoir — and therefore one of the few you can swim at. Bass Lake can be found near the southern end of \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a;\" href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Point Reyes Seashore \u003c/a>via a hike down the Coastal Trail from the Alamere Falls trailhead. It’s a bit of a hike and scramble down to the water, but it’s closer than another swimmable lake farther up the trail, Pelican Lake.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Inkwells (Lagunitas):\u003c/strong> A bit of a open secret in Marin, the Inkwells are a series of natural rock pools just as you enter Samuel P. Taylor State Park, off to the side of Sir Francis Drake. When the rain has been heavy, the water flows fast from Kent Lake down to San Geronimo Creek and through the pools.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/Visit/Spring-Lake-Regional-Park/Water-Park/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spring Lake\u003c/a> (Santa Rosa):\u003c/strong> The massive Spring Lake Regional Park, run by the county, includes a swimming lagoon filled with filtered water and open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. There’s also a water park for kids made up of an inflatable playground.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The Russian River:\u003c/strong> With swimming beaches and spots all up and down the Russian River, it’s hard to pick just one. Certainly, Johnson’s Beach in Guerneville is a popular spot, though it can get crowded in the summer. Same with Monte Rio Community Beach. \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/Visit/Healdsburg-Veterans-Memorial-Beach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healdsburg Veterans Memorial Beach\u003c/a> is easy to get to and the swimming area is created with a temporary dam on the river in the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.spn.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Lake-Sonoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Sonoma\u003c/a> (Geyserville):\u003c/strong> Run by the Army Corps of Engineers, Lake Sonoma allows swimming at your own risk anywhere you can safely get in. Try Yorty Creek or the Warm Springs recreation area. A warning: The lake is far more popular as a boating destination, so be careful if you’re swimming.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/mp/ccao/berryessa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Berryessa\u003c/a> (Napa County):\u003c/strong> Lake Berryessa is a reservoir, but it’s a reservoir used for irrigation and flood control. That means swimming is allowed. All swimming is at your own risk; there are no lifeguards here either. Oaks Shores and Smittle Creek are the most popular day use areas with bathrooms, picnic areas and parking.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>South Bay + Peninsula\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If you remember swimming in Almaden Lake not that long ago, you might be surprised to know you can’t anymore. It’s been closed because of water pollution for a few years as the lake undergoes \u003ca href=\"https://www.valleywater.org/project-updates/almaden-lake-improvement-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an improvement and cleanup project\u003c/a>. Santa Clara County, in general, does not allow swimming in its lakes and reservoirs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garden of Eden\u003c/a> (Felton):\u003c/strong> Another natural swimming hole that requires a hike, the Garden of Eden is just that: an Eden inside the Henry Cowell Redwoods. In the summer, you can park at the day use area off Highway 9 in Felton and cross the seasonal bridge. But in the winter, you have to walk in from the Ox Fire Road trailhead.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsanmateo.org/3340/Parkside-Aquatic-Park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parkside Aquatic Park\u003c/a> (San Mateo):\u003c/strong> The only way to get here is through a whole bunch of residential neighborhoods, but once at the park you’ll find a moderately warm sandy beach next to a lagoon with a roped-off swim area during the summer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcity.org/departments/public-works/storm/redwood-shores-lagoon\">Redwood Shores Lagoon\u003c/a> (Redwood City)\u003c/strong>: Run by the city, the lagoon serves as a stormwater retention pond, but it also allows non-motorized boating, swimming and fishing. Swimming is at your own risk and you should watch out for boats.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fostercity.org/parksrec/page/water-activities\">Foster City Lagoon\u003c/a> (Foster City)\u003c/strong>: Foster City streets drain into this salt-water lagoon. The bacteria levels are tested regularly and if there is contamination posing a health risk then signs are posted at the beaches. Swimming is allowed at your own risk.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://parks.smcgov.org/memorial-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memorial Park\u003c/a> (Loma Mar):\u003c/strong> This nearly-500-acre park includes a swimming hole where the creek crosses through the park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Uvas (Morgan Hill):\u003c/strong> If you’ve ever done an organized swim, triathlon or aquathon at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/UvasReservoir.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UVAS Reservoir\u003c/a> in Morgan Hill, then you’re probably thinking you can swim there anytime. You can’t. Swimming is, generally speaking, not allowed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Did we miss your favorite swimming spot? 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Its release comes as PG&E begins another round of preemptive blackouts in Northern California: The utility\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781681/here-are-the-cities-that-could-be-affected-by-pge-power-shutoffs\"> plans to cut power to 179,000 customers in 17 counties\u003c/a> starting Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Change Research co-founder Pat Reilly said the poll shows growing dissatisfaction with PG&E, noting that the company’s unfavorability ratings have grown significantly in recent months — a dissatisfaction that transcends partisan divides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-1200x852.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E had a 49% unfavorable rating when we started our monthly California poll in February of this year. Eight months later, that has risen to 61% unfavorable,” she said, adding that only 9 percent of those polled rated the company favorably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians were evenly split on who should have the power to decide when to shut down power — about a third of respondents said the “utilities know best,” while another third said state regulators or government officials should make the call, and another third said they don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll indicates that the public doesn’t blame only PG&E for what’s happening: They’re also dissatisfied with Gov. Gavin Newsom, despite his vocal criticism of PG&E leadership management in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/22/governor-newsom-demands-pge-do-more-to-warn-customers-limit-scope-of-potential-pge-public-safety-power-shutoff/\">demanded\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/10.22.19-Letter.pdf\">letter to PG&E CEO Bill Johnson\u003c/a> that the utility do a better job communicating with customers and work to limit the number of people impacted by blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Newsom’s tough rhetoric, respondents gave the governor’s handling of the incident low marks — just 7 percent of those polled said his response to the blackouts was “excellent”; 33% rated it average or above-average; and 47% said the governor’s handling was below-average or very poor. Republicans were much harder on Newsom, with 83% saying he handled it “very” poorly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature got marks similar to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-1200x854.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll.jpg 1441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokeswoman for Newsom said he shares the public’s frustration and that he’s continuing to work on solutions to help protect the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If PG&E had prioritized safety over profits and had updated their infrastructure like other utilities, we would not be in this situation,” said spokeswoman Vicky Waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is certainly frustrating for the governor and it’s no doubt frustrating for the public. The governor has aggressively held the utility accountable and also provided state personnel, state funding, and changes to state laws, to help reduce the fallout for Californians from PG&E’s decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11779330 label='Another Governor, Another Power Crisis' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Gavin-Newsom-1020x680.jpg\"]Overall, just 20% of respondents said they viewed the first round of outages as necessary, with 53% saying they were not. And 63% rated PG&E’s handling of the incident below-average or very poor — a response that crossed party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things get more complicated when you dig a bit deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bad news for PG&E, a plurality of respondents — 40% — said they think PG&E should be broken up into smaller regional utilities; 30% supported a public takeover of the embattled utility. Just 1 percent backed what the poll called “a public bailout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And reflecting the growing frustration with PG&E, Californians appear to have soured on the entire investor-owned-utility structure, in which publicly traded companies get a monopoly to provide a utility to the public, and receive a guaranteed profit margin, but are regulated by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A solid 62% of those polled said it’s a bad idea to have a utility’s shares traded on Wall Street. And 77% agreed with the statement, “It’s always a bad idea to have investor owned public utilities. They’re more concerned about shareholders’ returns than creating a safe infrastructure for the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians have lost faith in large, Wall Street-driven publicly traded companies to put people first,” Reilly said. “The plurality of Californians, 40%, want the basics — light, power and public safety — to be managed by smaller, regional utilities that will prioritize community interest over investor interest. Another 30% want the state to take these companies over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-1020x754.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup-1200x887.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/PNG-Future-Breakup.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interestingly, just 18% of those polled blame inadequate PG&E equipment as the biggest driver of wildfires in recent years — even though the utility has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729842/pge-says-its-equipment-likely-caused-camp-fire-as-investigation-continues\">admitted fault\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747838/pge-blamed-for-sparking-deadly-camp-fire-now-what\">deadliest, most destructive wildfire in modern California history\u003c/a> and is blamed by state investigators for other destructive blazes in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, 30% said inadequate forest management was to blame for recent wildfires, and 29% said climate change is the culprit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflicting feelings among poll respondents in some ways mirror the evolving position of state lawmakers around how to deal with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"pge\"]Last year, in the wake of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/north-bay-fires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 North Bay Fires\u003c/a>, lawmakers rejected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682315/governor-jerry-brown-proposal-would-make-it-harder-to-sue-utilities-for-fire-damages\">efforts by PG&E and Gov. Jerry Brown to change liability laws\u003c/a> and make it harder to sue utilities that cause damage but didn’t act negligently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They balked after pressure from victims’ groups and insurance companies. But they also seemed reticent to back anything resembling a bailout for a company many lawmakers said they couldn’t trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But months later in 2018, the Legislature \u003cem>did\u003c/em> pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689873/california-legislature-passes-major-reforms-to-wildfire-law\">reforms aimed in part at keeping PG&E out of bankruptcy\u003c/a> — a route the utility \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717965/pge-announces-plans-for-bankruptcy-protection\">ultimately decided to take anyway\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this summer, lawmakers and Newsom worked together to craft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760618/newsom-signs-wildfire-liability-bill-utility-customers-to-pay-10-5-billion-into-new-fund\">a bill\u003c/a> that will provide PG&E and other utilities some financial backstop moving forward, so that another utility doesn’t end up in bankruptcy court if it sparks another disastrous fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa state Sen. Bill Dodd, who has been deeply involved in the wildfire and utility debate in Sacramento, told KQED’s Political Breakdown podcast this week that his view of what should happen to PG&E has changed over the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am open to all alternatives,” Dodd said when asked about whether the entire structure of PG&E should be changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called on Newsom to create a team of experts to study what kind of restructuring is possible, both technically and financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s figure out what is the art of the possible with our electrical grid going forward. This is insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results with PG&E,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll of 2,605 Californians has approximately a 1.9 percent margin of error. It was conducted online between Oct. 15 and 18 — the week after the first round of PG&E blackouts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.changeresearch.com/pge-california-poll-oct-15-18\">online survey was conducted by Change Research\u003c/a> after the first round of shutoffs cut power to about 2 million residents earlier this month. Its release comes as PG&E begins another round of preemptive blackouts in Northern California: The utility\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781681/here-are-the-cities-that-could-be-affected-by-pge-power-shutoffs\"> plans to cut power to 179,000 customers in 17 counties\u003c/a> starting Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Change Research co-founder Pat Reilly said the poll shows growing dissatisfaction with PG&E, noting that the company’s unfavorability ratings have grown significantly in recent months — a dissatisfaction that transcends partisan divides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-1020x724.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1-1200x852.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Change-Poll-1.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E had a 49% unfavorable rating when we started our monthly California poll in February of this year. Eight months later, that has risen to 61% unfavorable,” she said, adding that only 9 percent of those polled rated the company favorably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians were evenly split on who should have the power to decide when to shut down power — about a third of respondents said the “utilities know best,” while another third said state regulators or government officials should make the call, and another third said they don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll indicates that the public doesn’t blame only PG&E for what’s happening: They’re also dissatisfied with Gov. Gavin Newsom, despite his vocal criticism of PG&E leadership management in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/22/governor-newsom-demands-pge-do-more-to-warn-customers-limit-scope-of-potential-pge-public-safety-power-shutoff/\">demanded\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/10.22.19-Letter.pdf\">letter to PG&E CEO Bill Johnson\u003c/a> that the utility do a better job communicating with customers and work to limit the number of people impacted by blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Newsom’s tough rhetoric, respondents gave the governor’s handling of the incident low marks — just 7 percent of those polled said his response to the blackouts was “excellent”; 33% rated it average or above-average; and 47% said the governor’s handling was below-average or very poor. Republicans were much harder on Newsom, with 83% saying he handled it “very” poorly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature got marks similar to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11782143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll-1200x854.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-PGE-Response-Poll.jpg 1441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokeswoman for Newsom said he shares the public’s frustration and that he’s continuing to work on solutions to help protect the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If PG&E had prioritized safety over profits and had updated their infrastructure like other utilities, we would not be in this situation,” said spokeswoman Vicky Waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is certainly frustrating for the governor and it’s no doubt frustrating for the public. The governor has aggressively held the utility accountable and also provided state personnel, state funding, and changes to state laws, to help reduce the fallout for Californians from PG&E’s decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson said Friday it could take up to 10 years for the utility to improve its system enough to not have to rely on power shutoffs to prevent wildfires during dry, windy conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson's comments came about a week after the utility cut power to about 2 million people in Northern and Central California, saying the outages were needed due to high winds and dry conditions that could spark wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who spoke at an emergency meeting of the California Public Utility Commission in San Francisco, said the number of power shutoffs will decline over the next decade as PG&E reroutes the electric grid so it can shut off power to smaller areas, invests in microgrids to keep power on during emergencies and updates thousands of miles of power lines in fire-prone areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Pacific Gas and Electric Power Shutoffs\" tag=\"power-shutoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Public Utility Commission President Marybel Batjer began the meeting at CPUC headquarters by telling PG&E that their handling of the power shutoff was \"inadequate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can tell you that you guys failed on so many levels, on fairly simple stuff,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Johnson said that he was accountable for communication problems, he defended the shutoff, saying that the company did it for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that stands out in my mind is that we did not have any catastrophic fires in Northern and Central California. It’s hard to prove a negative,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also defended the utility's infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a misconception that we turned off power because our system is in shambles,\" Johnson said. \"Our system is in pretty good shape. The [public safety power shutoff] was driven by a widespread wind event.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility executives said that they found about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779839/pge-confirms-50-instances-of-damage-or-hazard-to-its-equipment-during-outages\">100 instances where high winds damaged or presented a hazard to electrical equipment\u003c/a> during the shutoff. They said that most of the damage involved vegetation, like trees, grass or brush coming into contact with power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumeet Singh, vice president of PG&E's community wildfire safety program, estimated that it could take 10 to 14 years for the company to finish updating about 7,100 miles of power lines in high fire risk areas, and 8 years to improve vegetation management on 25,000 miles of lines in high-risk areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Commissioners Lambast PG&E for Failing to Assist People With Disabilities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the marathon hearing, commissioners repeatedly pushed executives on how they reached out to people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s most recent shutoff event affected more than 30,000 customers who take part in the utility’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/medical-condition-related/medical-baseline-allowance/medical-baseline-allowance.page\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">medical baseline program\u003c/a>. People who use powered medical devices, including oxygen concentrators and motorized wheelchairs, pay lower rates for gas and electricity by applying to the program with a doctor's note. Under rules approved by the commission, utilities now use medical baseline status to identify and warn vulnerable customers before and during a power shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11779283 label='Left in the Dark' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/20191010_124940-1020x765.jpg\"]But the program is an imperfect proxy for medically vulnerable communities, as Commissioner Liane M. Randolph noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officers and consumer advocates say that the program under-represents who’s at risk in a shutoff area. For instance, people who live in buildings that receive just one electric bill — or in mobile home communities — can’t register. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the medical baseline program itself dates back decades, it’s only this year that PG&E began to use it as a warning mechanism in this kind of emergency. At the same time, a spokesman for San Diego Gas & Electric, the utility that pioneered public safety shutoffs after the 2007 Witch Fire, pointed out that regulations make eligible people who declare that they need air conditioning to be comfortable for a variety of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not yet clear how well PG&E warned medical baseline customers about the most recent shutoff event. According to earlier filings with the CPUC, PG&E warns its medical baseline customers via text, email or automated call. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the customer doesn't confirm the warning, the utility will send someone out to knock on the door, said PG&E Senior Vice President Laurie M. Giammona. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If nobody answers the door, the utility hangs a tag, and considers the outreach successful. Giammona said that PG&E workers left door tags for about 700 people last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Kaplan of Oakland, who uses an electric chair, bed and ventilator and requires the use of an elevator, explained that being notified about power shutoffs \"isn't all that helpful.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is going to be a reality that we're going to have to get used to, then people who rely on power for survival need to have backup,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Kaplan (left) of Oakland and Marge Hall (right) of Berkeley waited 3.5 hours to speak during the public comment portion of Friday's CPUC meeting in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781232\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Kaplan (left) of Oakland and Marge Hall (right) of Berkeley waited 3.5 hours to speak during the public comment portion of Friday's CPUC meeting in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The CPUC’s head of safety and enforcement policy, Elizaveta Malashenko, told lawmakers in August that the medical baseline program wasn’t designed for emergency response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves also wondered why some communities got backup generators, when others didn’t. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Was wealth a factor?\" she asked PG&E's Singh about why Calistoga got a generator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said that was not the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>PG&E Executives Detail Communication Breakdowns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>PG&E's Giammona said that the utility had not anticipated the number of people who would access the website. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that about 1.7 million users per hour were trying to use the PG&E website during the power shut offs. Normally, only about 7,000 users access the site per hour on a regular day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC President Batjer, who was present for some of PG&E’s decision making during the shutoff, said that employees too junior to make important decisions about technology were the ones tasked with system testing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"CPUC President Marybel Batjer listens as PG&E executives speak at an emergency meeting in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781226\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Batjer-CPUC.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CPUC President Marybel Batjer listens as PG&E executives speak at an emergency meeting in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said that she was \"astonished at the lack of infrastructure\" for a company of PG&E's size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batjer noted that dozens of local governments complained that they could not reach PG&E during the shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E executives described calls with county and tribal governments where more than 1,000 people from local and tribal governments were on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today a parade of PG&E executives told us what we already know — their October [power shutoff] was a massive failure in execution,\" state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the program is an imperfect proxy for medically vulnerable communities, as Commissioner Liane M. Randolph noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officers and consumer advocates say that the program under-represents who’s at risk in a shutoff area. For instance, people who live in buildings that receive just one electric bill — or in mobile home communities — can’t register. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the medical baseline program itself dates back decades, it’s only this year that PG&E began to use it as a warning mechanism in this kind of emergency. At the same time, a spokesman for San Diego Gas & Electric, the utility that pioneered public safety shutoffs after the 2007 Witch Fire, pointed out that regulations make eligible people who declare that they need air conditioning to be comfortable for a variety of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not yet clear how well PG&E warned medical baseline customers about the most recent shutoff event. According to earlier filings with the CPUC, PG&E warns its medical baseline customers via text, email or automated call. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Marissa-Shaw-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marissa Shaw of Richmond, a member of the disability community, speaks during the public comment period of Friday's CPUC meeting. Shaw said she was not informed about PG&E's power outage because she's not eligible for the medical baseline program, since her landlord pays her utility bill. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the customer doesn't confirm the warning, the utility will send someone out to knock on the door, said PG&E Senior Vice President Laurie M. Giammona. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If nobody answers the door, the utility hangs a tag, and considers the outreach successful. Giammona said that PG&E workers left door tags for about 700 people last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Kaplan of Oakland, who uses an electric chair, bed and ventilator and requires the use of an elevator, explained that being notified about power shutoffs \"isn't all that helpful.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this is going to be a reality that we're going to have to get used to, then people who rely on power for survival need to have backup,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Kaplan (left) of Oakland and Marge Hall (right) of Berkeley waited 3.5 hours to speak during the public comment portion of Friday's CPUC meeting in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781232\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Kaplan-and-Hall-CPUC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Kaplan (left) of Oakland and Marge Hall (right) of Berkeley waited 3.5 hours to speak during the public comment portion of Friday's CPUC meeting in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The CPUC’s head of safety and enforcement policy, Elizaveta Malashenko, told lawmakers in August that the medical baseline program wasn’t designed for emergency response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves also wondered why some communities got backup generators, when others didn’t. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Was wealth a factor?\" she asked PG&E's Singh about why Calistoga got a generator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said that was not the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>PG&E Executives Detail Communication Breakdowns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>PG&E's Giammona said that the utility had not anticipated the number of people who would access the website. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that about 1.7 million users per hour were trying to use the PG&E website during the power shut offs. 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"content": "\u003cp>Maximina Molina Sanchez is worried about going hungry this winter. She depends on a food bank in Huron to feed her husband and two kids. But with most agricultural workers out of jobs during the winter, demand is bound to increase, so she worries there won’t be enough food to feed everyone who needs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sanchez family is among the 22% of people in Fresno County who couldn’t afford the groceries they needed in the past year. Fresno ranks third in the country for food insecurity, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.frac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Research and Action Center.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Over a fifth of people in Fresno County could not afford the groceries they needed in the past year.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the county leads the nation in agricultural production. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919301296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study\u003c/a> from Santa Clara University revealed that a whopping one-third of the hand-picked crops grown in the state are left to rot in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why can’t this food get to the people who really need it? Food banks are addressing shortages on a piecemeal basis and startups are expanding sales of farmers’ surplus produce. But there is no solution in sight to bridge the food insecurity and crop overproduction that plague the Central Valley because it takes money and labor to harvest the surplus and haul it to food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Hirasuna, vice president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunnysidepacking.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunnyside Packing Company\u003c/a> in Selma, said he was not surprised by the study’s finding. The company regularly leaves a third of its produce in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you lump the whole Valley together, it’s a pretty staggering number at the end of the day,” Hirasuna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hunger in the Valley\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/interactive-charts-and-highlights/#States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.6 % of households\u003c/a> across the state were food insecure in 2018. In 2016, over a fifth of Fresno residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/saipe_treemap/saipe_snap_treemap.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=09a6dbd393-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-09a6dbd393-84313689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received food stamps\u003c/a> — and 10.6% statewide. It’s unclear whether those are the same groups of people. However, according to the Food Research and Action Center, people on food stamps may still be food insecure because the aid doesn’t always cover the cost of the food they need. And many families with insufficient food have incomes higher than the threshold for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley\u003c/a> found that 27% of residents in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are at risk of hunger even though they live next to two of the most productive agricultural valleys in the country. The food bank raised the issue with food waste researchers at Santa Clara University, who in turn quantified the amount of surplus in those fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wondered whether there may be some opportunities to salvage the food left in the fields and direct it to people on food assistance,” said Greg Baker, executive director of the Center for Food Innovation and Entrepreneurship at SCU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examining 20 hand-harvested crops on 123 Central and Northern California fields in 2016 and 2017, the researchers found that 34% of edible produce never makes it off the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates varied widely among crops; cabbage, romaine lettuce and strawberries were among the most lost. (Researchers refer to leftover produce as “loss,” not “waste,” because unlike food that ends up in a landfill, it can feed livestock or fertilize the soil.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates are likely constant throughout California, according to Baker, but machine-harvested produce experiences much lower levels because the equipment leaves little behind. Produce that can be canned or converted to other food such as raisins also has lower loss rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker found that farmers tend to overproduce to fulfill their contracts with buyers. They plant about a third more than they need in case of weather, pests, plant disease, labor availability, field stability and over-or under-sized crops. If after delivering, the price is too low, they leave the rest to rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"https://bfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bowles Farming Company\u003c/a> in Los Banos harvested close to 85% of its cantaloupes because market demand was high, according to Cannon Michael, company president. However, last year his company left about 80% of its cantaloupes in the field because prices were too low to justify harvesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food waste is a big concern of ours,” Michael said. “It’s really frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Johnson, a researcher at North Carolina State University who specializes in food loss and waste, found that in the Southeast, 40% of crops are lost. This is particularly concerning, she said, because the losses stack atop the 30% to 40% of food that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USDA estimates\u003c/a> is wasted each year in stores and households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-2-800x564.jpeg\" alt=\"Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781094\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Why Not Donate it to People in Need?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sanchez has seen the loss first-hand. She was a picker until her son, now 9 months old, was born. Life has been difficult since her husband fell off a truck while he was packing lettuce and injured his back a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westside Family Preservation, a food bank in the roughly 7,000-person town of Huron, keeps most of the town’s agricultural workers from starving by supplying such staples as milk, corn flakes, pasta, rice, beans and canned fruits and vegetables. But the food bank regularly lacks the fresh produce grown in the Valley, which Sanchez said she needs to keep her sons healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of throwing it away, why not donate it to people in need? The cold is coming, it’s going to rain, and these people, we are in need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting food out of the fields and into the households that need it is far costlier than simply growing it, Johnson explained. With limited budgets, food banks can’t offset the full cost of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11771889,news_11762399,news_11737874' label='RELATED COVERAGE']The \u003ca href=\"https://ccfoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central California Food Bank\u003c/a> serves about 280,000 families in the Valley, including Sanchez’s family. They share surplus and trade vegetables with over 200 food banks nationwide. But supplies often fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s feast to famine,” said Jaclyn Pack, food acquisitions manager at the food bank. “During the summer we’re very feast. I can’t keep our cold storage empty. And during the winter it’s very famine, where I’m constantly trying to figure out how to get product in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food bank provides farms with cardboard boxes and picks them up, and the state gives farmers a tax credit worth 15% of the wholesale value. But Baker said many farmers don’t participate because they either didn’t know about the tax incentives or found the compensation too low. It made more sense to write off the crop as a loss than to donate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not their business,” said Baker. “They’re not running a charity along with their farm. They’re very happy to contribute but it can cost them too much money because they’re operating on slim margins as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food banks have tried to get volunteers to glean the produce off the farms but it didn’t work. Frequently there wasn’t enough time to organize enough volunteers and gleaners take far longer and harvest much less than professional field workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-3-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781095\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Food Left in Fields Likely to Increase\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steve Linkhart, director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafoodbanks.org/farm-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farm to Family\u003c/a>, at the California Association of Food Banks, is working on a statewide solution. He plans to hire the labor the farms already contract to get all the product off the field that could go to food banks. Funding, again, is the main roadblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to find a way to offset the labor fees,” Linkhart said. Growers and researchers say reducing the surplus calls for a seismic shift. They suggested more open communication within the supply chain. Baker said the retailers could shift the status quo by being more flexible on what they accept. That is, taking more produce that is off-size or has imperfections. That way, growers wouldn’t have to overplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, investors spent over \u003ca href=\"https://www.refed.com/download#food-waste-investment-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$125 million\u003c/a> on startups looking to address food loss and waste. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article233304382.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imperfect Produce\u003c/a>, for example, delivers otherwise unmarketable produce to homes, and recently began delivering boxes in Fresno, Merced and Modesto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full Harvest works with growers across California to deliver imperfect fruits and vegetables to food processors across the state and country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are products that didn’t have any channel for incremental revenue,” said Christine Mosely, who runs Full Harvest. “It’s a win-win because the farms are happy to sell it because it would’ve been disced under.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lot more needs to be done to curtail waste at a bigger scale, or get more of it to people in need and no one has even a roadmap just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael at Bowles suspects the problem will only worsen as produce prices stay low and labor costs rise.“The potential for food to be left in the field is increasing because of the increased human cost,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why a lot of the big folks are trying to move as much production out to Mexico and Central America, because the cost of labor is so much less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manuela Tobias is a journalist at The Fresno Bee. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates varied widely among crops; cabbage, romaine lettuce and strawberries were among the most lost. (Researchers refer to leftover produce as “loss,” not “waste,” because unlike food that ends up in a landfill, it can feed livestock or fertilize the soil.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loss rates are likely constant throughout California, according to Baker, but machine-harvested produce experiences much lower levels because the equipment leaves little behind. Produce that can be canned or converted to other food such as raisins also has lower loss rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker found that farmers tend to overproduce to fulfill their contracts with buyers. They plant about a third more than they need in case of weather, pests, plant disease, labor availability, field stability and over-or under-sized crops. If after delivering, the price is too low, they leave the rest to rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, \u003ca href=\"https://bfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bowles Farming Company\u003c/a> in Los Banos harvested close to 85% of its cantaloupes because market demand was high, according to Cannon Michael, company president. However, last year his company left about 80% of its cantaloupes in the field because prices were too low to justify harvesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Food waste is a big concern of ours,” Michael said. “It’s really frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Johnson, a researcher at North Carolina State University who specializes in food loss and waste, found that in the Southeast, 40% of crops are lost. This is particularly concerning, she said, because the losses stack atop the 30% to 40% of food that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USDA estimates\u003c/a> is wasted each year in stores and households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-2-800x564.jpeg\" alt=\"Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781094\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes remain in a field in Los Banos after harvest. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Why Not Donate it to People in Need?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sanchez has seen the loss first-hand. She was a picker until her son, now 9 months old, was born. Life has been difficult since her husband fell off a truck while he was packing lettuce and injured his back a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westside Family Preservation, a food bank in the roughly 7,000-person town of Huron, keeps most of the town’s agricultural workers from starving by supplying such staples as milk, corn flakes, pasta, rice, beans and canned fruits and vegetables. But the food bank regularly lacks the fresh produce grown in the Valley, which Sanchez said she needs to keep her sons healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of throwing it away, why not donate it to people in need? The cold is coming, it’s going to rain, and these people, we are in need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting food out of the fields and into the households that need it is far costlier than simply growing it, Johnson explained. With limited budgets, food banks can’t offset the full cost of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ccfoodbank.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central California Food Bank\u003c/a> serves about 280,000 families in the Valley, including Sanchez’s family. They share surplus and trade vegetables with over 200 food banks nationwide. But supplies often fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s feast to famine,” said Jaclyn Pack, food acquisitions manager at the food bank. “During the summer we’re very feast. I can’t keep our cold storage empty. And during the winter it’s very famine, where I’m constantly trying to figure out how to get product in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food bank provides farms with cardboard boxes and picks them up, and the state gives farmers a tax credit worth 15% of the wholesale value. But Baker said many farmers don’t participate because they either didn’t know about the tax incentives or found the compensation too low. It made more sense to write off the crop as a loss than to donate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not their business,” said Baker. “They’re not running a charity along with their farm. They’re very happy to contribute but it can cost them too much money because they’re operating on slim margins as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food banks have tried to get volunteers to glean the produce off the farms but it didn’t work. Frequently there wasn’t enough time to organize enough volunteers and gleaners take far longer and harvest much less than professional field workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/FOOD-WASTE-photo-3-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781095\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Santos picks eggplants for Sunnyside Packing at a field in Sanger. \u003ccite>(John Walker/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Food Left in Fields Likely to Increase\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steve Linkhart, director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafoodbanks.org/farm-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farm to Family\u003c/a>, at the California Association of Food Banks, is working on a statewide solution. He plans to hire the labor the farms already contract to get all the product off the field that could go to food banks. Funding, again, is the main roadblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to find a way to offset the labor fees,” Linkhart said. Growers and researchers say reducing the surplus calls for a seismic shift. They suggested more open communication within the supply chain. Baker said the retailers could shift the status quo by being more flexible on what they accept. That is, taking more produce that is off-size or has imperfections. That way, growers wouldn’t have to overplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, investors spent over \u003ca href=\"https://www.refed.com/download#food-waste-investment-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$125 million\u003c/a> on startups looking to address food loss and waste. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article233304382.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imperfect Produce\u003c/a>, for example, delivers otherwise unmarketable produce to homes, and recently began delivering boxes in Fresno, Merced and Modesto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full Harvest works with growers across California to deliver imperfect fruits and vegetables to food processors across the state and country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are products that didn’t have any channel for incremental revenue,” said Christine Mosely, who runs Full Harvest. “It’s a win-win because the farms are happy to sell it because it would’ve been disced under.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lot more needs to be done to curtail waste at a bigger scale, or get more of it to people in need and no one has even a roadmap just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael at Bowles suspects the problem will only worsen as produce prices stay low and labor costs rise.“The potential for food to be left in the field is increasing because of the increased human cost,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why a lot of the big folks are trying to move as much production out to Mexico and Central America, because the cost of labor is so much less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manuela Tobias is a journalist at The Fresno Bee. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The contractor was at our terminal that day performing scheduled routine maintenance,” Cho said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/52c3efd17595df98882584940076d9f2?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,crockett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entry\u003c/a>, added just an hour after the fire, to a California Office of Emergency Services hazardous spills database, described the situation before the worker was rescued.[aside postID=\"news_11780224\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The facility was evacuated but there is one contract employee that could not get out of the building and they are in the back of the facility. Caller stated that the fire department is aware of the contractor location,” the entry stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker was not seriously injured, Cal/OSHA spokesman Frank Polizzi said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NuStar on Friday afternoon released its \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/CCHS-HazMat-Incident-Notification-Att.-B-submittal-10-18-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">72-hour follow-up report \u003c/a>to the county. The report notes the cause of the fire, which started at approximately 1:48 p.m. on Tuesday and was abated at about 9 p.m., is still unknown and under investigation. There were less than 3,000 barrels of denatured ethanol in each of the two tanks that caught fire, plus “an unknown quantity of other potential fuels (diesel and jet) released through broken lines,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also states that the terminal was evacuated within approximately two minutes, with the exception of the lone contractor, who was rescued within 20 minutes. There were no employee or contractor injuries and one firefighter sustained a minor burn injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to understand what training workers, whether they be contractors or employees, went through,” said Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, who said the contractor was unable to give emergency workers any information about the tanks’ contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A petrochemical facility, he added, needs to have a system in place for people who understand the plant to meet with first responders on arrival during emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s less important whether it’s a contractor or an employee and more about ensuring everybody there, however long they’ve worked there, is sufficiently trained to maximize safety and reduce harm at the facility,” said Gioia, who sits on the board of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gioia said the front gate of the NuStar facility was locked when firefighters arrived and that its emergency fire suppression system was not activated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NuStar has said there was “initial confusion” about which tanks were involved because the explosion and fire erupted so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/VallejoFire/status/1184253063185358848?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the intensity of the fire during the first few minutes, they could not get close enough to verify which tanks were on fire,” Cho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company officials say the power at the terminal has been restored. But Cal/OSHA, earlier this week, ordered that operations at the facility be suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All movements of product into and out of the terminal are halted, as we assess the damage and develop a plan for repairs,” Cho said, adding that he didn’t know when operations would resume or how much the fire and suspension of operations would cost the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA inspectors issued an order to preserve evidence in the two tanks and the pipes involved in the blaze. They also issued an order to cease operations at the facility “until we can confirm that operations can resume safely,” said Erika Monterroza, another Cal/OSHA representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cal/OSHA is working expeditiously to identify and correct hazards that may impact workers’ safety at the NuStar Energy facility or that of the surrounding community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire sent up a huge plume of smoke for hours, prompting a shelter-in-place order for nearby communities and the closure of a section of Interstate 80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County health officials detected elevated levels of particulate matter at the time of the fire, according to Randy Sawyer, the county’s chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that agency and the Air District have yet to release data on the air quality tests taken during the emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven patients who complained of respiratory distress went to the emergency room at Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo, according to a hospital spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency rooms at Kaiser’s Richmond, Oakland and Vallejo hospitals did not see a significant increase in the number of patients as a result of the fire, said Kaiser representative Deniene Erickson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is under investigation by the Contra Costa County Fire Department, the Air District and Cal/OSHA. 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