Water and Sewer Utilities

Water World -- San Francisco Style

SFPD Catches "Water Department Scammers"

The San Francisco Police have arrested three suspects who have been posing as Water Department Personal to gain access to private homes. Once inside the home, one of the suspects would distract the resident while another searched the home for valuables. The three men are suspected of carrying out ... More >>

Prop. R: YES YES YES!!!

Because Bush deserves his own sewage plant.

Cothran

Because Bush deserves his own sewage plant.

Foul Ball

The Giants' new stadium site is almost certainly seeping a stew of toxic chemicals into the bay. Why doesn't the government care?

Fish Story: Sierra Club Lawsuit Claims Unlawful Water Diversion Terminating Trout

Rod SutterbyMr. Trout, siding with the plaintiffs...Anyone who's ever seen Show Boat knows that "Fish gotta swim." Also, "Birds gotta fly" and "I gotta love one man 'til I die." The first of these needs was addressed in a recent federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco by The Sierra Club and the Carme ... More >>

Investigative Report: Marin County Water System Vulnerable to Al-Qaeda Attack

Does everyone want to live in Marin?​ The Center For Investigative Reporting, the Berkeley nonprofit that recently formed a team of sleuths to take up where downsized California newspapermen and women left off, came out slugging earlier this month. It published a scintillating piece demonstrating ... More >>

S.F. Authority Says Pacifica Owes $2.3 Million For Pooping Up Beaches

​The city of Pacifica may be up shit creek if it doesn't stop shitting up its creeks. The city faces $2.3 million fines for what the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board is calling "illegal discharges" during storms in January of 2008. A letter from the Board to the city and wast ... More >>

City Dwellers Doused as Water Department Flushes Fire Hydrants

Joe EskenaziJed's a millionaire!​ Conversation in the line for a chi-chi Mission Bay taqueria was dampened the other day when, a few yards off, a city water department employee hooked what appeared to be an oversize cow bell to the fire hydrant. Before anyone could make a "more cowbell" joke, a to ... More >>

S.F. Water Department Pledges Not to Waste So Damn Much Water

Joe EskenaziWe can change! ​Last week, we wrote some stories about how the city was allowing thousands of gallons of "The best water in the world" to roar down the sewer while it flushed the water mains. Water Department employees, in order to combat built-up silt and any staleness in the water su ... More >>

Looks Like Water Department Sent Millions of Gallons Down the Drain in Mission Bay

Joe EskenaziDrained...​We've written a few stories about how the city's Water Department was allowing fire hydrants to run free for hours here in Mission Bay in order to flush the water mains. While this is a fairly common practice, it's a bit odd for the city to send untold gallons of what one Wa ... More >>

Jump! Jump! Jump Around!

Joe EskenaziDrained...​We've written a few stories about how the city's Water Department was allowing fire hydrants to run free for hours here in Mission Bay in order to flush the water mains. While this is a fairly common practice, it's a bit odd for the city to send untold gallons of what one Wa ... More >>