PLEASANTON, Calif., Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayor Gavin Newsom nominated Vince Courtney to serve on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). This appointment was confirmed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on January 4, 2011 by unanimous decision. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110111/DC26796)
Tom Ferrero has been pumping grease traps for 20 years. As a third-generation septic pumper, it's Ferrero's job to go underneath restaurants and clear the congealed mass created by your halfeaten bacon cheeseburger and the dishwater used to clean the plate. Brown and with a jellyfish consistency, trap grease is scraped in chunks off the sides of grease vats under restaurant sinks and drains so that it doesn't harden and clog city pipes. Ferrero admits it's not the most fun way tp make a living. But recently, he says, he hasn't minded going down in the vats as much, ever since a Philadelphia company began turning this filth into fuel. This is a rancid substance. Right now, pumpers are paid to extract the material, driving it over long distances to a wastewater facility where they pay to...
...On February 5, San Francisco became the first city in the country (other than P... is out there," says San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Biofuels Coordinator Karri Vi...
David Behar also is running for the seat being vacated by [Jared Huffman]. As a matter of fact, he's the treasurer of Huffman's campaign. Behar has worked as an environmental consultant with clients that included the Natural Resources Defense Council (where Huffman is a top attorney) and the Pacific Rivers Council. He also has served as executive director of the Bay Institute of San Francisco. Behar currently is a consultant to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which is the department in the city responsible for, among other things, water and wastewater. Behar says that if he's elected, he first would like to get a realistic assessment of the long-term water demand the MMWD is likely to see in the future. "We will know that long-term demand picture only when we know the deg...
A new city audit criticized the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission for failing to protect the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct from terrorism, vandalism and theft. The city utilities agency, which is responsible for ensuring the water system's safety, has been slow to implement security measures to guard the 167-mile aqueduct, which provides drinking water to 2.4 million residents in the San Francisco Bay area, according to the report by the Board of Supervisors' Budget Analyst.
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