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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. The SFPUC also provides wholesale water service to an additional 1.9 million customers in three other San Francisco Bay Area counties. [1]
Pumping Station No. 2 - Van Ness Avenue and San Francisco Bicycle Route 2 in Fort Mason. Both stations are capable of pumping 10,000 US gallons per minute (38,000 L/min) of salt water at a pressure of 300 pounds per square inch (2,100 kPa) with on-site generators. Pumping Station No. 2 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Pumping Station No. 2 of the San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System was built in 1912. It is located near Fort Mason, at the northern end of Van Ness Avenue and close to the shore of the San Francisco Bay. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The rates of decline slowed in the 1970s and '80s as newly built aqueducts brought river water to farmlands, and the sinking remained less pronounced into the early 2000s.
The San Joaquin Valley, which extends from east of the San Francisco Bay Area to the mountains north of Los Angeles, became host to a ballooning farming sector and groundwater pumping between 1925 ...
That case was settled in 2022, when county supervisors temporarily paused the issuing of well permits and began work amending the county’s well ordinance. Last year, Sonoma County supervisors ...
Dos Amigos Pumping Plant is located shortly south of San Luis, lifting the water 118 feet (36 m). Near Kettleman City, the Coastal Branch splits off from the main California Aqueduct. Buena Vista, Teerink and Chrisman Pumping Plants are located on the main aqueduct near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley near Bakersfield.
The pumping station is 60 miles (96 km) to the southeast from the City of San Francisco, in the rural community of Byron, California, near the city of Tracy. Water is extracted from the southern portion of the San Joaquin Delta, and pumped to contractors in the San Joaquin Valley, San Benito and Santa Clara counties to meet urban and ...