The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is one of the worst departments in San Francisco.
Several of its managers have landed behind bars—the current leadership is the worst— and none of the leaders calling the shots are engineers; we have two attorneys who have no clue what they are doing, except earning large amounts of money.
The atrocities committed by the middle manager at the SFPUC Water Department are despicable—sending hardworking SFPUC workers into harm's way—while the General Manager couldn't care less.
The General Manager makes $616,000 a year — not long ago he earned $500,000.
The General Manager has decided to retire — and is jumping ship.
What makes SFPUC even worse is that, as an "Enterprise Department," it amasses great wealth from selling its clean drinking water, serving millions, meeting wastewater needs, and more.
The SFPUC is mandated to notify and appear before the SF Board of Supervisors to explain any budget over $10 million. This does not happen—many times, after spending millions more over the $10 million, some representative from the SFPUC appears—and these thugs are accommodated.
The SFPUC started with a $6 billion budget; today it has reached $15 billion and is on track to reach $25 billion in a few years.
Right now, no entity checks and balances the SFPUC—whether it's the Sunshine Task Force, which isn't working, the Ethics Commission, which is impotent, or the SF Controller's Office, which has no power to indict.
A year ago, the SF Inspector General's Office was created — she works under the SF Controller — because the SF Controller's Office funds her office.
To date, the SF Inspector General's office has made no inroads in addressing the abject corruption; she, one person, without help, cannot deal with the many serious issues that land on her desk. The only assistance she has is one person — which makes no sense.
Our team of citizens met with the SF Controller three times to explain the serious issues that adversely affect the Bayview-Hunters Point and San Francisco.
We also met the SF Inspector General over a year ago — and have yet to hear from her office.
We have an emergency all over San Francisco: the SF Reservoirs are polluted, contaminated drinking water is being sent to residences and others, the SF authorities do not care and are defying standards, and this mentality must stop.
The SF Health Department is aware of the situation — our SF Reservoirs need to be cleaned and maintained to meet the hygiene standards set by SF OSHA — especially since we bring clean water all the way from Hetch Hetchy and have maintained no standards.
SFPUC, on the contrary, has challenged the US Environmental Protection Agency — neutralizing the Clean Water Act that we advocates fought for and won. Only for SFPUC to disgrace San Francisco.
The SF Health Department is fast asleep at the cockpit.
We took our case to the San Francisco Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which, after nine months, indicted the SFPUC Water Department on five charges.
We are awaiting the results, and if SFPUC does not pay the fines, this will give us several opportunities to take SFPUC to court and ensure that fair play and justice prevail.
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Over the last ten years, corruption has reached a saturation point — not long ago, the entire SFPU Commission was let go — except for Kate Stacy.
The present SFPU Commissioners, led by Joshua Arce, Stephen Leveroni, Avni Jamdar, Kate Stacy, and Megan Thurlaw, were chosen to "rubber-stamp all decisions" — more of a CABAL.
The SFPUC forgets that its clean water comes from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir — the water tapped from the Tuolumne River.
The land was stolen adjacent to Yosemite National Park, once controlled by the United States Forest Service and now by the United States National Park Service.
The land was stolen from the indigenous tribes: the Southern Sierra Miwok Nation, Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, Bishop Paoite Tribe, Bridgeport Indian Colony, Mono Lake Kootzaduka'a Tribe, North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California, and the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians.
I have been monitoring the SFPUC for a long time — and the utter nonsense happening there knows no bounds.
Today, the SFPUC is in dire straits; we will soon have no water to drink or to serve millions, and we will lack the energy to move forward and deal with Quantum technology.
Right now, the SFPUC cannot address quality-of-life issues.
It is using the bond system to bring in money, billions, and audit after audit by the SF Controller's Office clearly points to the SFPUC needing to be upgraded with the latest software and other amenities to meet our clean water and energy needs.
The SFPUC spends millions on consultants who are taking the SFPU Commissioners, the General Manager, and other middle managers for a wild ride.
The SFPU Commission has over 2,000 employees — who are not treated well. In the last 5 years, micromanagement has forced middle management to leave the SFPUC.
Recently, I had to take a case involving three hardworking SFPUC employees who were fired just because they went to middle management and asked them for special training and certification — linked to the " Confined Space" project — working underground forty to fifty feet below, cleaning and sanitizing dirty, stinking reservoirs that have not been clean for over five years.
Three SFPUC employees were fired, and we will see that fair play and justice prevail.
San Francisco Office of Safety and Health Agency fined the SFPUC Water Department on five charges.
We are waiting for the SFPUC General Manager to take action and pay the fine so we can proceed to the second stage: suing the SFPUC and other entities that have put our workers in harm's way.
We have not gone to the Main Media, as the situation is very serious—exposing millions of innocent people to contaminated water, knowing it is contaminated; knowing that deferred maintenance is a very serious issue; and knowing that putting innocent, hardworking employees in harm's way is a crime.
These jerks at the SFPUC Water Department practice nepotism as if the entire Water Department belongs to them.
In the past, one manager was busy showing porn at work, working a few hours, and receiving a salary for hours he did not put in — this has been going on for years.
These jerks causing pandemonium at the SFPUC Water Department need a deep orientation on the salient and pertinent policies that the middle managers have no clue about.
Our SFPUC employees are not to be treated with disdain — the workers who were fired worked hard, received commendation, had not a single violation noted on their employee records, and yet they were put in harm's way and traumatized.
I had to go out of my way to put the three employees on track and support them. We created a team of like-minded experts — some worked for the City of San Francisco — we brainstormed — we studied the documents — we reviewed each and every incident that led to harm to the three employees. We did our best, and we prayed before and after each meeting.
On October 28, 2025, I spoke to the SFPU Commissioners — the cabal — and warned them that they would fall on their face if they did not do the right thing.
The decision taken by SF OSHA to charge the SFPUC on five counts says it all. SFPUC better change its ways — and good riddance to the current General Manager — an attorney — who has no clue about infrastructure, maintenance, blueprints, or short- and long-term projects carried out to qualified standards.
We have the empirical data: photographs and video of the many reservoirs — sludge two or three feet high; we know of animals and humans urinating and engaging in other harmful activities — the SFPUC is aware of this but does not care to lift a finger.
The Sunset Reservoir was emptied of some 177 million gallons (543 acre-feet). The SFPUC laborers tried to clean it, but they were not given the proper equipment, as laid out by SF OSHA, which SFPUC failed to provide.
The Sunset Reservoir was filled with water, some 277 million gallons. Someone responsible for sanitizing the 277 million gallons using sodium hypochlorite over-sanitized the Sunset Reservoir, which would adversely impact millions, and had to drain all the water and refill another 277 million gallons.
What a waste of clean drinking water? Who are the dumbies who need to be fired? Where is the leadership? Where are the standards — thrown to the wind? Why should the taxpayers tolerate such utter nonsense? When are we going to get rid of the unfit middle managers who need to be removed — immediately?
Anyone with common sense will tell you the managers at the SFPUC Water Department have no standard training, are not certified, and are busy with mundane stuff — rather than their job, which impacts millions of innocent San Franciscans.
Has the Reservoir at Hunters Point not been maintained for over 20 years?
Is it a fact that the many SF reservoirs are contaminated?
Is it a fact that the SFPUC Water Department has not maintained documentation — they are so dumb they never, ever imagined SF OSHA would ask them for the many documents that matter.
Enough is enough!
Other managers were selling copper wire; a few of them went to a shop and stole sunglasses. All this when they should all have been at work.
Why would such idiots be allowed to work and be paid by San Francisco taxpayers?
The SF Police Department has an incident case, and the General Manager of the SFPUC, who plans to retire soon, should look into these happenings, which the General Manager knows about but does nothing about—a situation that has brought shame to San Francisco.
The SFPUC is in dire straits, and the entire top management must step aside and fade into oblivion.
Over 200 employees have been fired for no reason — and managers like William Taehan, Frank Jordon, Steve Richie, and Joy Chen should not be working at the SFPUC.
Our current Mayor was informed before he took office about all the corruption at SFPUC and, more broadly, in the Water Department.
The Mayor is a joke, gathering money from billionaires who will later be given contracts, and all this and more, furthering the ongoing corruption.
Political Action Committee is the worst type of entity that allows billionaires to contribute millions — gradually eroding our Democracy and leading to the filthy rich and the demise of the Middle Class that fought for Democracy all these many decades.
Recently, an Iranian American heading the Human Rights Commission was called in and fired. Such actions do no one good.
Several class actions from years ago have charged the City's's of San Francisco with discrimination, retaliation, and abuse, mostly against people of color — and the SF City's's should be ashamed of itself.
We have seen the SF City Attorney's Office fake documents and create volumes of pages to retaliate against picked employees, leading workers to humiliation, shock, and hospitalizations.
Families suffer, and no one cares. This is San Francisco, named after Saint Francisco of Assisi — we care for everyone — we embrace all — yet the SFPUC has chosen methods that harm hardworking workers who will not listen or abide by wrongdoing.
The SF Civil Rights Commission has failed to help employees fired without cause — Union 261 has failed the workers — refusing them help from lawyers — employees can only go to the Union lawyers and are forbidden from hiring private lawyers.
Thank God OSHA and the Civil Rights Department have come to the rescue of the fired employees — traumatized and ganged upon.
These jerks who have been ganging on innocent employees must be brought to book for these serious crimes — and compensated.
Going through all the steps — each case takes over a year and, in many cases, two years or more.
The paradox is that the SF City Attorney and the SFPUC General Manager are aiding and abetting retaliation and ganging up on hardworking, innocent workers.
The SF City's's Administrator, the Mayor of San Francisco, the SF District Attorney, the Governor of California, the SF Controller, and the SF Inspector General—all of whom have no clout—are kicking the can.
I have spoken many times to the SFPU Commissioners about the abject corruption.
These idiots do not seem to understand that human beings must be respected and treated as human beings.
Joshua Arce is useless; he just rubber-stamps and talks with both sides of his mouth.
He should step down before it is too late.
As Chair of the SFPUC, he has no clue what is happening, much like when he was at the City's Build that falls under SF Workforce—which has failed to deliver, leaving our youth in limbo—and was taken for a ride.
In the interim, our Reservoirs in San Francisco need cleaning and proper sanitation.
How can the authorities mandated to keep us all safe knowingly allow SFPUC to supply contaminated water from our SF Reservoirs, which are suffering from deferred maintenance and a lack of hygiene?
The Reservoirs have NOT been cleaned or brought into compliance with OSHA standards; we know this and have empirical data to support it.
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Wait until the Main Media make the details public.





























