Accelerate what happens naturally in nature is biomimickery that happens in tidal estuaries. It brings in nutrients to the microbes. Its delivered in the air, and does the rest of the process, chewing up those nutrients in the water and producing nitrogen and carbon. Were doing that in a system where were creating 12 to 16 tides per day. The wastewater for our building begins its journey by travel tog our primary tank which is a fairly normal looking manhole. Beneath these manholes is a 10,000 gallon primary tank. There are two chambers. The trash chamber which filters out the trash and plastics and the organic solids settle out just as normal Wastewater Treatment process is. The water then flows to an equalization tank, a recirculation tank, and then on to tidal flow wetlands cell 1a. All those these cells look to be only 3 or 4 feet deep, theyre actually 8 feet deep below this concrete sidewalk. The water repeatedly cycle into the cell from the bottom up. As the water comes up into t
Right over here is woodward gardens. He started collecting stuff. He invited people over and eventually opened it up to the public. He had a menagerie. It was an 1800 thing. Could any of the people in this room go . Ice skating. Ice skating. You could see the remains of the pool. I thought the ice rink was made out of one of the largest pools. Yes. You can see the ell that goes around. They tried to make it a tropical beach theme. They had a bunch of sand. Like you could not go to the beach 40 feet away. It did burn down. It seems like it would have been a wonderful resource for the city to purchase it and rebuild it you could never afford the money to rebuild it. There were efforts to try to keep it. Someone tried to sell it to the city in the 1950s. They kept it going with the ice skating rink. It closed and it looked bad. People thought we should buy it and keep it. Other people wanted to put condos in there. A serious fire started and the whole place burn down. They still talk abou
It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decided to buy the building in 1999 for 2. We worked and looked at ways that we can utilize the building for an Office Building. To build an icon i can building that will house a lot of city departments. The San Francisco Public Utilities commission has an important job. We provide clean, pristine public Drinking Water to 2. 6 Million People in the San Francisco bay area from the hetch hetchy Regional Water system. With also generate Clean Renewable Energy for City Services like public buses, hospitals, schools, and much more. And finally, we collect and treat all the citys wastewater and stormwater making it safe enough to discharge into the San Francisco bay and pacific ocean. In 2006 the puc was planning a Record Number of projects. The Public Utilities commission is a very infrastructurerich organization. Were out there rebuilding the water system. Weve budget working on Power Generation in the country. Weve been doing sewer for the c
When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadnt done anything there and the mayor thought the same. If an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decided to buy the building in 1999 for 2. We worked and looked at ways that we can utilize the building for an Office Building. To build an icon i can building that will house a lot of city departments. The San Francisco Public Utilities commission has an important job. We provide clean, pristine public Drinking Water to 2. 6 Million People in the San Francisco bay area from the hetch hetchy Regional Water system. With also generate Clean Renewable Energy for City Services like public buses, hospital
Companies of the 21st century. This pioneering and forward looking spirit is alive in San Francisco government as well. The new headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission at a5 25 golden gate avenue is more than just a 13story building and office ablation. Instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest Office Buildings in america. Thats more than a building. Thats a living system. When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadnt done anything there and the mayor thought the same. If an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decided to buy the