The SFPUC’s Pollution Prevention Program held a workshop last May to discuss Constituents of Emerging Concern (CECs). Simply put, the CECs are the many different kinds of chemicals such as traces of medicines, personal care or household cleaning products, lawn care and agricultural products, among others. These can be detected in water ways, such as…
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SFPUC’s Neurodiversity Internship Creates Career Pathways for People with Learning Differences
The SFPUC and partners are working to build a more diverse and inclusive workforce through the Neurodiversity Internship Program. On Tuesday, June 23, over 40 people from the SFPUC, its private firm partners, community partners and family members of the interns celebrated the second cohort to graduate from this innovative program that creates career pathways…
How Project Pull Team Leaders Jenny Hoang and Gabriel Terry Have Seen Online Internships as an Opportunity
Gabriel Terry’s and Jenny Hoang’s journey as Team Leaders in Project Pull has been one full of positive experiences that have outweighed the challenges of “distance interning.” During the last several weeks, they have found nothing but support from Project Pull staff and have been overwhelmingly surprised by all of the program participants’ enthusiasm to…
An Essential Worker & Father’s Message to Wear a Mask
Tomio Nakadegawa is a Chief Stationary Engineer at the SFPUC’s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant. On March 19, 2020, Governor Newsom issued an Executive Order directing all residents to stay home, except as needed to maintain continuity of operations of essential critical infrastructure sectors. This order included the wastewater sector. For months, Nakadegawa has been getting up each morning…
Why Project Pull Alum and Intern Marianna Ramos Knew What Her Summer Would Look Like
Early on, Marianna Ramos knew what she wanted to do this summer. When the Project Pull application period opened this spring, she diligently began working on her application for the internship program. Ramos, a rising junior at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, had spent last summer working at San Francisco’s Animal Care and Control as a…
Stay Home and Fight Climate Change from Your Couch
As many San Franciscans continue to shelter in place in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, it means some of us are spending more time working, parenting, cooking, and binge-watching TV at home. Keeping the lights on longer at home might not seem like a big deal, but greenhouse gas emissions from our electricity use do…