Up and down California, when it rains, urban storm runoff picks up trash and contaminants as it flows untreated into the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco Bay, and other bodies of water. San Francisco, however, doesn’t do that. While other coastal cities in California have separate sewer and stormwater systems, most of San Francisco is served by a combined sewer system. This combined system provides greater environmental benefits because it captures and treats most stormwater to the same high standards that apply to wastewater from homes and businesses before releasing it to the bay or ocean. Other

If you’re looking for a way to learn about job options and gain career experience, you’re in the right place. We provide career opportunities and training to residents from our local communities. These programs offer opportunities to earn a salary while learning the skills necessary to succeed in high demand careers within the City and County of San Francisco. We partner with unions, the City and County of San Francisco, and other stakeholders to support apprenticeships and pre-apprentice training programs in the skilled trades. These programs are critical to ensuring a skilled and reliable

With climate change, it’s important to better understand the frequency and strength of precipitation events and how they may affect inland flooding. San Francisco undertook a unique collaboration between a municipality, climate scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and climate consultants at Pathways Climate Institute to create a research team that focused on a better understanding of future precipitation events through climate modeling. Using supercomputing resources at LBNL’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the research team found that the effect of

Job Opportunities with the SFPUC The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is a department of the City and County of San Francisco (CCSF) that employs more than 2,300 city employees, operating across eight counties: San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Tuolumne, San Joaquin, Mariposa, and Stanislaus. We offer a range of employment opportunities including positions for accountants, analysts, biologists, plumbers, project managers, engineers, technicians, and more. Some SFPUC jobs are posted on San Francisco Citywide job boards, including the Citywide Technology job board

Our mission is to provide our customers with high quality, efficient and reliable water, power, and sewer services in a manner that is inclusive of environmental and community interests, and that sustains the resources entrusted to our care. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is committed to making our programs and facilities accessible to all. If you believe you have been excluded from, denied the benefit of, or been subjected to discrimination due to your disability at any SFPUC location please let us know by using one of the options below. Report an accessibility issue online