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The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is a public agency of the City and County of San Francisco that provides water, wastewater, and electric power services to the city. The SFPUC also provides wholesale water service to an additional 1.9 million customers in three other San Francisco Bay Area counties. [1]
The Pumping Station No. 2 of the San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System was built in 1912. It is located near Fort Mason, at the northern end of Van Ness Avenue and close to the shore of the San Francisco Bay. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Twin Peaks Reservoir, at near-empty level. The Twin Peaks Reservoir is the backbone of the AWSS system and is located at the top of San Francisco's Twin Peaks hilltop. It is made up of a 10.5-million-U.S.-gallon (40-million-liter) storage reservoir made out of 6-inch-thick (150 mm) reinforced-concrete slabs.
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The facility discharges treated water about 800 feet (240 m) into San Francisco Bay. [2] Constructed in 1952, the 40-acre (160,000 m 2 ) facility is planned to be updated with new digesters by the mid-2020s.
The city of San Francisco, has implemented a CSO plan since the late 1960s and built current CSO control facilities in 1997. [ 3 ] [ failed verification ] In 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Regional Water Quality Control Board issued a new National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for San Francisco's ...
US 101 was flooded in South San Francisco, California, while SR 84 was closed due to landslides and flooding in Fremont. [32] [33] This forced the Oakland Zoo to close until at least January 17. [34] Flooding and road washouts were widely reported. [3] Flooding was exacerbated by the series of storms as they exceeded the soil's capacity to soak ...
The Spring Valley Water Company named the lakes, the Spring Valley Lakes, after the company. The original Spring Valley was between Mason and Taylor Streets, and Washington and Broadway Streets in San Francisco, where the water company started. When the company went south for more water, the Spring Valley name was carried south too. [8]