Sunday will mark the 115th anniversary of the 1906 Earthquake, and even though that event is more than a century old, San Franciscans will never forget the lessons learned from that tragedy. The SFPUC is set to use innovative piping with flexible joints that can bend to withstand seismic activity as part of the next…
Category: Emergency
One Year of COVID: SFPUC Continues Essential Duties Everyday
Today marks the one year anniversary since San Francisco enacted its stay at home order in response to COVID-19. Though the general public stayed home, many essential workers continued to report in for work, including hundreds of SFPUC employees to keep water, power and sewer services running 24/7. Since Mayor Breed called a state of…
Why Alina Chetcuti Used Her Design Skills to Save Lives
Alina Chetcuti creates and designs for a living, but never would she have thought to use her graphic design skills to help save lives. Chetcuti is a graphic artist in the SFPUC’s Communications Department. When she took a job with the SFPUC, she knew the utilities sector was historically a male-dominated industry. To her, it…
SFPUC and SFFD Perform Joint-Training Exercise of the City’s Emergency Firefighting Water System
This past Saturday, February 20, the SFPUC and San Francisco Fire Department, along with multiple fire trucks and water department crews and equipment, performed a critical test at Pump Station No. 1, which is part of the City’s Emergency Firefighting Water System. Located at 2nd & Townsend Streets, the pump station was tested to carry…
New SFPUC Tap Water Stations Added to Mission, Tenderloin and Bayview Communities
For more than a decade, the SFPUC has been providing fresh, clean and free drinking water though its Drink Tap program. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught the SFPUC how critical it is to ensure safe, clean drinking water is accessible for the community. The SFPUC has always sought to bring drink tap stations to communities…
How Chandini Gaur Began Her First Year at the SFPUC Supporting COVID Response
Time during the COVID-19 pandemic seems to crawl and sprint simultaneously. Last week feels like last year, while the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 seems like it was yesterday. Now imagine serving as a Disaster Service Worker (DSW) in a stressful environment for seven months during the pandemic; that is a very long…