With warmer weather in the summer and fall comes the increased risk of wildfires. To reduce the risk of wildfires, planned power outages called Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events may occur to keep the public safe. PG&E will issue a PSPS in response to extreme weather, such as intense heat and strong winds. During…
Category: Preparedness
Why You May See Smoke at the SFPUC’s Peninsula Watershed
Firefighters and watershed keepers are passionate about preventing the SFPUC’s lands from being devastated by a catastrophe like a wildfire. Year after year they work together to stage controlled burns to keep the face of earthen dams from accumulating dried vegetation that could contribute fuel to turn a small burn into a devastating fire. Just…
Innovative Earthquake Resistant Piping to be Featured at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
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…
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…
Pile Burning on Peninsula Reduces the Risk of Fire
Fires smoldered at several locations on the SFPUC’s watershed lands the week of April 3. The SFPUC’s watershed staff could not have been happier. The SFPUC owns approximately 23,000 acres of watershed land in the San Mateo Creek Watershed on the Peninsula. Although these lands support high concentrations of rare and endangered species of plants…
Meet Jeff Harp, SFPUC Head of Security
After spending 21 years with the FBI, Jeff Harp retired in 2015 and began his second career. Harp spent two and a half years in corporate security and then joined the SFPUC as one of the leaders on the Emergency Planning and Security team. Harp started working at the SFPUC in December 2017 and enjoys…