San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
| SFPUC | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Jurisdiction | City and County of San Francisco |
| Headquarters | 525 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102 |
| Employees | ~2,800 |
| Annual budget | $816.5m USD (2011-12) |
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| Website | sfwater.org |
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 and an additional 1.6 million customers within three San Francisco Bay Area counties. Since its creation in February 2005, the SFPUC Power Enterprise Division has supplied power to many city facilities including Muni, San Francisco International Airport as well as the Modesto and Turlock Irrigation districts.The SFPUC is also the water, electricity and wastewater utility for occupants of Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island.
The SFPUC manages a complex water supply system consisting of reservoirs, tunnels, pipelines and treatment facilities and is the third largest municipal utility agency in California. The SFPUC protects its watershed properties with security utility trucks and fire apparatus painted white over green. The SFPUC provides fresh water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir to 2.4 million customers for residential, commercial and industrial uses. Near one-third of its delivered water is sent to customers within San Francisco, while the remaining two-thirds is sent to Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties.
The SFPUC is manages a complex wastewater system that collects, conveys and provides secondary treatment to combined sewage flows (both stormwater and sewage) within the City & County of San Francisco per the NPDES Permit requirements, and before discharging it into the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
From the mid-19th Century, much of the Alameda County watershed was owned by the Spring Valley Water Company (SVWC), a private enterprise which held a monopoly on water service to San Francisco.
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