For Olivia Lucas, celebrating Black History Month doesn’t just mean celebrating during the month of February. “Black History Month is much more than four weeks on the calendar. Black History Month to me is a lifestyle of celebrating Black joy, Black culture, and the history of our ancestors.” Lucas has worked with the SFPUC since August 2018. She began as a San Francisco Fellow in the Finance Division and worked her way to earn a role as Social Impact Partnership Coordinator in External Affairs. In this role, she provides administrative support for the SFPUC Social Impact Partnership Program

As we celebrate the 2022 Lunar New Year, the SFPUC wishes everyone a healthy and prosperous Year of the Water Tiger. While commonly known as a Chinese holiday, Lunar New Year is celebrated across Asia, where more than three billion people bring in the new year with their families and loved ones. 2022 is the year of the Water Tiger. The tiger is the third animal in the 12-year lunar cycle. More specifically, this year it will be a water tiger because, in addition to the rotation of animals in the calendar, there is also a circle of five elements – wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Those born

The Mission Brick Sewer Rehabilitation is one of the Sewer System Improvement Program (SSIP) projects to upgrade and modernize our existing 100-year-old sewer mains. After years of planning, the project broke ground in early 2021. The community praised the endeavor to upgrade the sewer system on Mission Corridor, between 16th and 22nd Streets, as well as between 25th and Cesar Chavez Streets, and replace a small section of the Emergency Firefighting System pipeline at the intersection of 20th and Mission Street. But after a difficult year of COVID lockdowns and as lockdown rules began lifting

Safety is the top priority at the SFPUC. And, with construction underway at the Southeast Treatment Plant (SEP) on several massive projects totaling over $3 billion — including the new Headworks and Biosolids Digester Facilities Projects — safety is crucial. As construction for multiple overlapping projects at the SEP continues, crews recently completed 1,231,420 safety hours with no time lost due to injury. While this is a major achievement, it is even more impressive at the SEP due to the challenge to maintain plant operations and coordinate active construction projects, all while continuing

The State Water Resources Control Board and the California Water Quality Monitoring Council recently recognized the SFPUC and other agencies for their role in developing and implementing wastewater monitoring to manage the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have sought ways to identify signs of the virus’ spread. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID disease, has not been shown to be transmissible through wastewater, but once scientists discovered that fragments of the genetic material of the virus could be found in

On a cloudy, blustery November day in San Francisco, 33 high-school students trudged up 24th Avenue in the Sunset neighborhood to visit their local solar array. Guided by Utility Specialist John Zech and Power Communications Manager Peter Gallotta, the eleventh-grade class, along with teachers Valerie Ziegler and Alan Calac, learned the importance and benefits of renewable energy, and the critical role the solar installation—managed by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)—plays in San Francisco. Specifically, the solar array provides clean electricity to thousands of the