IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS THERE HAVE BEEN UMPTEEN VIOLATIONS - ISSUED BY OSHA - OTHER PRESSING ISSUES - BAFFLING TO ANYONE - WHO COMPREHENDS INFRASTRUCTURE - STANDARDS - AND SOUND OPERATIONS.

The Headworks project - seen in this picture -

will be replaced by another new facility -

yet, much is being made about the future building -

some award given to the SF Public Utilities Commission -

for some conceptual plan - that has yet to be realized.

The Sewer System Improvement Project (SSIP) is moving at a snail's pace - the location where the Phelps Sewage Treatment Plant stands - a total mess.

The General Public hoodwinked with tons of misinformation - and leading that charge - Juliet Ellis the Assistant General Manager of External Affairs - who now purports to be an expert - in matter dealing with Workforce. 

Very little is spoken about the many issues - resulting from very poor planning - the release of staff with institutional memory and experience - Tony Flores and Karen Kubick for example.

For starters those who dig the trenches are experiencing an outburst of water - more saline water - from the trenches - this one factor - has stalled the project in many areas.

Primes or contractors have been called to bid on some jobs - and when they look at the Blue Prints - they do not want to take on the bids.

The reason - they are mandated to dig deep - avoid the existing infrastructure - huge pipes and other infrastructure - too difficult to avoid - that will adversely impact the job - with heavy cost overruns and liability issues to deal with.

Read more about the award on a project that has NOT been 
complete - projects that are  ripe with hurdles to be overcome - and cost over runs in the high millions:

https://www.sfwater.org/Index.aspx?page=17&recordid=623

The Biosolids Project costs too much -
and one former Assistant General Manager -
working for SF Public Utilities Commission
to get $1 Billion piece of the pie -
he is laughing all the way to the bank - now.

While much has been made of the designs - linked with the BioSolids project and the Headworks project - it is too early to state - that all will be well.

More -  when the brand new plant comes into operation - there are existing issues to be dealt with - very cumbersome.

Right now - the plant has received several Notice of Violations (NOVs) from  the Occupational Safety and Healthy Administration (OSHA).

Not only the Phelps Raw Sewage Plant at the Bayview but the one at Oceanside - where the entire Oceanside Treatment Plant was shut down for three day - its computers - malfunctioned.

In the future both with the BioSolids Project and the Headworks Project - will have to deal with severe and pressing energy concerns - more steady electricity is a concern.

Pacific Gas and Electric will NOT go with the plans suggested by SF Public Utilities Commission - providing them energy. 

PG&E charging the SFPUC more for electricity that SF Public Utilities Commission - could have had in place - but was pussyfooting around and still is.

SF Public Utilities has a plan to bring 75 Megga Watts from one of the sub-stations by Hetch Hetchy some 160 miles away.

All this and more comes with abiding with new regulations -  following all sorts of rules and regulations State of California regulations.

Environmental Impact reports - new laws going on line - linked to any operators using large amounts of " energy ".

New regulation and mandates - linked to - " high power electricity " and concerns of fire - the " Napa Fire " and the better  known " Butte Fire " - no one wants to speak about these pressing concerns. 

There very poor leadership from the existing Assistant General Managers Michael Carlin and Juliet Ellis - both groping in the dark - and known for their corruption.

The Sanitary Engineers are now in arbitration and hopefully all will go well.

Some months ago - a signed agreement - gave the Sanitary Engineers who have to deal with an aging and failing system -schedules that permitted them to deal with the failing operations - longs hours and Over Time.

The Assistant General Manager Waste Water - at the Phelps Raw Sewage Plant - wanted to renege - and have his way - a person " know for his blatant racism ".

Further more  - lack of cultural competency and exhibiting tons of " implicit bias " - more than the tons of methane gas - surrounding the Phelps Raw Sewage Plant.

Very poor trust and support from the Assistant General Manager of Waste Water - Greg Norby who hails from Marin County - and thinks his " shit " don't stink - he is surround by such an environment and seems to suck it in - affecting his mannerism and sordid actions. 

We - are after all dealing with a Waste Water establishment - that has had its share of sordid crooks.

I will be speaking to the SF Public Utilities Commission - and reveal more - until that happens this coming Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - I will hold my thunder.

Juliet Ellis - who is the Assistant General Manager 

of External Affairs and has given herself an added

title - Chief Strategist - 

has single handedly taken taken the SFPUC

down the drain - into a cesspool of her own creation -

fined by the State of California -

the Fair Political Practices Commission -

she should have been fired - but is still on the job.

For those who need more information - empirical data - please read the following :

http://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/documents/Stipulations/2014/January/04%20Ellis%20-%20Stip%20and%20Exh.pdf