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A Look Back in History: Spring Valley Water Company Agriculture in PleasantonMay 26, 2020Pleasanton is located in the Amador Valley in eastern Alameda County. It is bounded by the Diablo Range foothills on the north and south, the coastal Pleasanton Ridge on the west, and the adjacent ...
A Look Back in History: Pescadero Creek Riparian Rights OfferApril 27, 2020Filed under “Coast Streams” with a subject heading of “Riparian Rights,” this short internal memo from Peninsula Supervisor W.B. Lawrence to Spring Valley Water Company General Manager S.P Eastman ...
Pile Burning on Peninsula Reduces the Risk of FireApril 24, 2020Fires 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 ...
Crystal Springs Road Closure for San Andreas Pipeline Replacement Prompts Detour for San Bruno TrafficApril 20, 2020Replacing a large pipeline across a busy street is always a challenge. The contractor replacing vulnerable sections of the San Andreas Pipeline 2 project in San Bruno had originally planned to ...
Pulgas Water Temple and Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail Close to Prevent Spread of COVID-19March 26, 2020The SFPUC closed two of its San Mateo County public attractions on March 24, 2020 in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus. On Monday, March 16, 2020 Mayor London Breed and the San Francisco ...
Meet Bree Candiloro, SFPUC Chief Nursery SpecialistMarch 13, 2020For SFPUC Chief Nursery Specialist Bree Candiloro, a typical day at the office includes assessing the health of the plants, checking the SFPUC’s nursery and facilities to ensure everything is ...
SFPUC Crews Utilize Remote Operated Vehicle Called the Falcon to Inspect Crucial Water TunnelMarch 10, 2020The SFPUC serves drinking water to 2.7 million Bay Area customers through hundreds of miles of pipelines and several tunnels. The SFPUC’s Water Supply and Treatment Division (WSTD) routinely ...
Engineers and Scientists Bring STEM Activities to Classrooms in Tuolumne CountyMarch 6, 2020The SFPUC and its social impact partners, Stantec, Wood Group PLC, McMillen Jacobs Associates, and Black and Veatch will once again participate in Tuolumne County’s annual Engineers and Scientists in ...
Thriving with Nature: Meet Watershed Keeper Supervisor Sarah LenzMarch 2, 2020When your office is literally in nature, seeing wild animals can be a daily occurrence. Sarah Lenz, watershed keeper supervisor in the Peninsula Watershed, is part of a small team of dedicated people ...
A Look Back in History: Stream Flows in San Mateo CountyFebruary 21, 2020The following letter dated January 21, 1918 from the SFPUC Archives reports on Peninsula Stream Flows. Letter dated January 21, 1918 from the SFPUC Archives reports on Peninsula Stream Flows. ...
A Look Back in History: Calaveras Plane Crash of 1960February 10, 2020A plane crash happened. The good news was that there were no fatalities and the pilot survived. In the news clips that follow, reporters provide very different takes on the misadventure of a young ...
How Lloyd Weaver Started His SFPUC Career in a Place He Never Heard of BeforeFebruary 7, 2020Located in unincorporated Tuolumne County, Moccasin has served as the hub of the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power Operations since construction of the Hetch Hetchy facilities started more than a century ...
Protecting the SFPUC’s Watersheds One Project at a TimeFebruary 6, 2020“This was a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us,” said SFPUC’s Rangeland Manager Clayton Koopmann, as he considered the grass and oak-covered hillsides of the Wool Ranch in southern Alameda ...
A Look Back in History: Pulgas Water TempleFebruary 4, 2020Pulgas is the Spanish word for fleas, which were encountered by early Spanish explorers of the area. In this location, the name comes from the former Rancho de las Pulgas, an early Spanish land ...
Look Out for the Crane on Lower Crystal Springs DamJanuary 30, 2020Starting February 10, SFPUC crews will begin minor construction work on the top of Lower Crystal Springs Dam. The space between the dam and the newly-constructed bridge on top of it is relatively ...
A Look Back in History: Water Rights Dispute Resolved in Spring Valley Water Company’s FavorJanuary 27, 2020What follows is an interesting bit of correspondence regarding water rights to Locks Creek, a 1.9-mile-long stream in San Mateo County, California. It is the largest tributary of Frenchmans Creek, a ...
A Look Back in History: The First Drink of Pulgas WaterJanuary 23, 2020In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to work on his presidential campaign. After Roosevelt won the Presidency, he appointed Ickes as Secretary of the ...
Beyond Hetch Hetchy – Understanding San Francisco’s Water SystemJanuary 21, 2020Many people may be familiar with Hetch Hetchy, San Francisco’s major water source that lies within Yosemite National Park. The water at Hetch Hetchy contains spring snowmelt flowing down the ...
A Look Back in History: Gate, InterruptedJanuary 17, 20201910 was the year that the Water Temple was brought online in Sunol. The Sunol Water Temple was built between 1906 and 1910. But the gate to the property wasn’t built until 1910. Gateway to the Sunol ...
A Look Back in History: Health and Recreation at Crystal SpringsJanuary 14, 2020By June 1946, World War II had been over for more than six months. But many veterans were still convalescing. Some of those were cared for at the Letterman General Hospital in the Presidio of San ...