When Eva Fernandez, Project Engineer with McMillen Jacobs Associates (MMJ), an engineering, environmental, and construction firm specializing in underground water resource projects, was invited to share her career journey and day-to-day work with teachers at San Francisco’s John O’Connell High School (JOCHS), she jumped at the chance. “Teachers are very important for a person’s career…
Category: Community
Help Transform the Storm: Join us for a Rain Guardians Community Event
The SFPUC is committed to creating a resilient and sustainable city in the face of intensifying weather patterns. We can send precious rainwater back to the soil, minimizing the burden on our sewer system and creating a greener city by implementing Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI). GSI is a set of engineered systems that use the…
Celebrate Public Power Week and Hetch Hetchy Power With Us
October is a time for plump pumpkins, spiced lattes, and frightening costumes. But did you know that this month also celebrates Public Power Week? Every year during the first full week of October, public power utilities across the country celebrate Public Power Week to highlight the benefits of community-owned electricity providers like lower rates and…
Hetch Hetchy Power and Visitacion Valley Middle School are Powering San Francisco Towards 100% Clean Energy
Sitting high up on a hill overlooking the San Francisco Bay, Visitacion Valley Middle School is located in a sunny spot just south of the Mission District. The school is dedicated to creating a positive learning environment and an empowered community focus that builds successful futures for its students. The SFPUC is helping to power…
Hispanic Heritage Month: Carlos Ramos Empowers Youth in Their Early Professional Journey
Carlos Ramos has seen a lot of youth transform their interests into careers. Ramos coordinates one of the biggest youth internship programs that the SFPUC offers, Project Pull. He is a Project Pull Program Coordinator as part the Workforce and Economic Program Services team within the SFPUC’s Infrastructure Division. Project Pull is a paid summer…
How You Can Transform the Storm with the Watershed Stewardship Grant
More than ten billion gallons of rain falls on San Francisco each year, enough for every resident of the City to shower twice a day for that year. When that rain hits the pavement, instead of soaking back into the earth, it makes its way into San Francisco’s combined sewer system where it is treated…