Sanchez from Market to Duboce: 8/3 - 8/21

Crews will be installing both 8” and 24” water pipelines between Henry and Duboce over a three week period.

The purpose of this work is to replace water lines that are 75 to 100 years old and will fail. This is part of the Water System Improvement Program (WSIP) that is upgrading our water delivery system in the City and throughout our service area in four Bay Area counties.

The crew will complete the potholing this week. Parking on north and south sides of Duboce will continue to be impacted.

Work hours: 8:00 am—5:00 pm
The crews have been instructed to make every effort to minimize noise and disruption. Construction noise with back-up alarms and excavating equipment can be expected.

The contractor has attempted to get access to the garage on the corner of Market and Sanchez for staging but the owner will not allow it because of other constraints on the property. Thus, the contractor will need to store equipment and pipe along the street during this period.

We appreciate your support and welcome your suggestions. Plan to attend our Project Coffee at Duboce Park Café on August 7 between 8:30 and 9:30 am.

Look for the August update in your mail next week.

Overflow Parking at Everett School

Neighborhood Parking at Everett School has been activated. The project has been allotted 20 spaces available 24 hours, 7 days a week through Friday, August 14. Later next week, we will speak with the School District regarding the parking tenant, City College, to determine future obligations.

Going forward, Maureen Barry, will be your point of contact. She lives on Church Street and will be readily available along with other staff –that she will direct—to handle your questions or concerns until this project is completed. You can reach Maureen at 554-3297 in the office or by CELL at 350-4929. Let us know how it goes.

Parking around 17th & Sanchez

The 'jack and bore' activities, tunneling under the intersection at 17th and Sanchez, will require open pits on both sides of 17th. Also, traffic regulations, require that the contractor restrict parking 24 hours --3 to 4 spaces on each side of 17th to provide the legally required lane width for traffic. SFPUC is attempting to confirm alternate parking with the school district.

There is no other place for the heavy equipment to be stored. This equipment is too wide for the spaces we have investigated for contractor overflow. Please bear with us as this final work south of Market is accomplished.

Potholing on Sanchez from Market to Duboce

Crew will start potholing on Sanchez from Market Street to Duboce for one week. This is to identify utilities locations for laying out of the new water main alignment. Work hours 8:00 am -5:00 pm. Approximately 25 feet of parking on north and south sides of Duboce will be impacted. Construction noise can be expected.

The crews have been instructed to make every effort to minimize noise and disruption. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Water Service to be fully Restored by 5:15 pm

Water service connections are nearly complete and water will be restored within half hour.
Call 279-3070 if you have special needs or concerns. Back-up number 554-3297.

Water Service Interruption

Tuesday, July 21
Noon – 4 pm
Location: 17th St. from Noe to Sanchez
18th St. from Sanchez to Church
Ford St. from Noe to Sanchez
Dorland St. from Sanchez to Church
Church St. from 18 to 17th
Noe St. from 17th to Ford

On Call: 415/ 279-3070
Para español: 415/554-3286
(please don’t call 694-3161. Mr. Martin has moved on to other projects)

SFPUC water operations will be connecting the new water main to our city distribution system on Tuesday, July 21 on Sanchez Street between 17th and 18th.

This will require the crew to interrupt your water service temporarily during the hours listed above. We apologize in advance for this inconvenience.

The crews have been instructed to make every effort to minimize noise and disruption.

If you have specific health or water needs, please contact us immediately 415/ 554-3244. We will coordinate between our water operations crews and our Public Health department representative.

Thank you for your patience and support as we work to improve your drinking water delivery system.

SFPUC Construction to begin soon on Crestline Drive

Beginning as early as the last week of July 2009, Cal State Constructors, the contractor working for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will begin work on the new water pumping station (Vista Francisco) located on Crestline Drive (approximately mid-block).

The purpose of this project is to improve water delivery to the neighborhood and system reliability.


The Vista Francisco Pump Station is one of approximately 70 Water System Improvement Program projects that will repair, replace and seismically upgrade the Hetch Hetchy Water System.

Vista Francisco Pump Station

Thank you for coming to the Neighborhood Coffee

Thank you for coming to the first Noe Neighborhood Coffee Meeting. We had nearly 20 neighbors come by and share their concerns, provide valuable suggestions, ask questions about this important water system improvement project and enjoy a cup of free coffee on us.

Please join us at one of our upcoming Coffee Meetings scheduled for: 7/24, 8/14 and 8/28 at H Café (3801 17th Street@ Sanchez). Hope to see you there.

Digging on Sanchez and 17th

Crew will begin digging large pits on both sides of the intersections and installing the pipeline under the street between the two pits next week through August. Parking will be restricted 200 feet from the pits. At least one lane of traffic will remain open and sidewalk use will be limited to the opposite sides of the intersections.

19th between Noe & Sanchez and Sanchez between 18 and 19th

Crews continue to work on making service connections to businesses and residents through August. Final paving is schedule for early September.

Sanchez@16th

We apologize for the inconvenience and disruption the night work has caused you.

Night Work --Tonight

SFPUC water operations will make service connections from the new water main to your residences and businesses again tonight.

All attempts were made to facilitate the water main connections during normal working hours (as in all other cases), but a daycare function until 7pm and another community meeting until 10pm, required this after hours work last night. The connection on west bound side of the street could not be scheduled to coincide with the work performed last night, due to the need to re-route traffic around the job site.

The crew does not anticipate that tonight’s work will continue as long as last evening’s activities. Crews have been instructed to make every effort to minimize noise and disruption. Again, we apologize for this inconvenience.

Location: Sanchez between 16th and 17th

On Call: 415/694-3161

Meet us for Coffee

Come join us for a Neighborhood Coffee on Friday, July 10 from 8:30 to 9:30 am at the H Café, 3801 17th Street @Sanchez. Meet the project team and ask questions or give us your comments and suggestions. We’ll host this Neighborhood Coffee the second and fourth Fridays in July and August.

No construction activity this Friday due to the Holiday. The contractor has consolidated equipment and pipe, removed unnecessary “no parking” signs” and cleaned the streets. Service connections and testing will resume on 19th Street from Noe to Sanchez next week through the end of the month. Work on Sanchez between 18th to Market will also continue after the holiday.