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