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New street trees took root today at Leavenworth and Clay on Russian Hill, thanks to the efforts of our arborist crews and community volunteers working together to get them planted. Have a good life trees! Welcome to our urban forest. #LoveOurCity
A Public Works staffer, assisted by community volunteers, pounds stakes into the ground to support the young street tree. Working together, volunteers and Public Works urban forestry crews pound stakes after the sapling goes in the ground. Once a tree is planted and staked, it gets water to help it thrive.
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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This afternoon they'll apply a fresh layer of asphalt. Previously, crews did the same work on several blocks of Presidio Avenue, from Pacific Avenue to Sacramento Street.

Today's work marks the end of the project, which started in May 2024.
Construction crews grinding and hauling away asphalt on Presidio Avenue.
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Earlier today, Public Works contractor crews were grinding away old asphalt on Presidio Avenue, from Bush Street to Geary Boulevard, as part of our Various Locations Pavement Renovation and Sewer Replacement No. 60 project.
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Today’s high winds damaged or knocked down a handful of street trees around town, like this one at Fell and Baker. Our pro arborists took quick action to make the impacted locations safe. Please report storm-related tree concerns to @sf311 so we can address.
A Public Works arborist, up high in a bucket truck, works on a storm-damaged street tree at Fell and Baker streets. A Public Works Bureau of Urban Forestry worker feeds downed branches into a chipper truck. A Public Works tree crew member clears felled branches from the roadway.
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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🗣️ Our latest newsletter is out:

🗝️ Unlocking the story behind our locksmiths
🌳 New street trees take root
🚒 Emergency system upgraded
🚉 A safer West Portal streetscape
🚸 Inner Richmond crosswalks earn their stripes
🛳️ A crucial Port project
💚 Volunteer workday

🔗 www.sfpublicworkstv.org/october2025
Pedestrians safely navigate the new streetscape outside West Portal Station. (SFMTA photo) Public Works locksmith Vincent Vou carefully reassembles a lock after cleaning its parts. Public Works landscape crews plant new street trees on Junipero Serra Boulevard in the Balboa Terrace neighborhood. San Francisco firefighters demonstrate the Emergency Firefighting Water System.
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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The decorative stripes are fashioned out of thermoplastic: Crews use heat to melt the material and then essentially fuse it onto the pavement.

Decorative crosswalks with distinct designs can be found in different neighborhoods throughout SF: the Castro, Richmond, Noe Valley, North Beach and more.
Crews install a new decorative crosswalk at Clement Street and Sixth Avenue.  
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Spearheaded by District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan and the Clement Street Merchants Association, the streetscape beautification project was overseen by Public Works project management and construction management teams. Our landscape architects turned the community-driven concept into a final design.
A pedestrian uses a new decorative crosswalk at Clement Street and Sixth Avenue. 
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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A splash of color and delight has arrived at the Clement Street and Sixth Avenue intersection with the recent installation of new decorative crosswalks.
Pedestrians use a new decorative crosswalk at Clement Street and Sixth Avenue. 
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Gardener Sean Robinson led the crew during a morning of strenuous digging and planting, alongside Balboa Terrace Homes Association board member Robert Mann who has been a lead planner of the planting project.

Learn more about the City's 125,000+ street trees: sfpublicworks.org/services/trees
Public Works crews, with help from a resident, plant new street trees at Ocean Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard in the Stonestown neighborhood.
October 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Yesterday, crews from our Bureau of Urban Forestry landscape shop – led by Manager Douglas Reed and Acting Supervisor Sabrina Soto – began planting more than 40 new street trees at Ocean Ave & Junipero Serra Blvd in the Stonestown neighborhood, a prime gateway to SF for visitors and residents alike.
Public Works crews plant new street trees at Ocean Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard in the Stonestown neighborhood. Public Works crews plant new street trees at Ocean Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard in the Stonestown neighborhood. Public Works crews plant new street trees at Ocean Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard in the Stonestown neighborhood. Public Works crews plant new street trees at Ocean Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard in the Stonestown neighborhood.
October 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Our crews today responded to one of the largest illegal dumping messes in recent times — on Gilman Street in the Bayview — and removed 23,080 pounds of rubbish. We found evidence left behind that we believe will lead us to the culprit so we can take full enforcement action to hold them accountable.
Public Works crews clean up a huge pile of illegally dumped garbage left on Gilman Street in the Bayview. The illegal dumping extended down the sidewalk. Public Works crews removed 23,080 pounds of trash left behind by an illegal dumping culprit.
October 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Our crews are always looking for illegal dumping across SF. Sometimes we even have to bring out heavy machinery to deal with it. Like last week in the Outer Sunset.

Using a front-end loader, our crews cleaned up an illegally dumped wooden box with 1,000 lbs of dirt in it at 39th Ave and Taraval St.
With the help of a front-end loader, Public Works crews clean up an illegally dumped wooden box with 1,000 pounds of dirt in it at 39th Avenue and Taraval Street. With the help of a front-end loader, Public Works crews clean up an illegally dumped wooden box with 1,000 pounds of dirt in it at 39th Avenue and Taraval Street.
October 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The system consists of 1,500 dedicated fire hydrants, a 135-mile pipeline network, a high-elevation reservoir, two large capacity tanks, two Bay water pumping stations and Bay water intakes.
October 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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With Friday marking the anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, City officials today conducted a joint drill to fully test the newly seismically upgraded Pump Station No. 2 near Fort Mason.
A group photo of City officials at a joint drill to fully test the newly seismically upgraded Pump Station No. 2, an SFPUC facility at the northern tip of Van Ness Avenue that pumps water from the nearby Bay into San Francisco’s Emergency Fighting Water System. During the drill, the pump station pumped Bay water into an isolated portion of the Emergency Firefighting Water System. The water then flowed from a high-pressure hydrant into Fire Department hoses to the top of an extended ladder from a Fire Department ladder truck, where it was sprayed back into San Francisco Bay.
October 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Our crews have been hustling during today’s rains, responding to 2 dozen-plus storm-related incidents — lots of blocked storm drains, like this one at Arguello & Anza. Please sweep up leaves in front of your homes & businesses to help keep the storm drains clear. And contact 311 to report flooding.
October 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Beat LA! Oh yes we did! Team San Francisco Public Works engineers+ bested our Los Angeles counterparts 26-22 in our annual softball game, played this year in the City by the Bay. Congrats SF!
San Francisco and LA softball teams show unity for a joint photo but become friendly rivals on the field once the game starts. In a high-scoring softball game, San Francisco Public Works beat LA 26-22.
October 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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The collaborative exercise involved 63 Public Works staffers from across all divisions. The more we train, the better prepared we are to serve the people of San Francisco when they need us most.
Public Works staff during a training exercise at the department's Operations Yard.
October 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Our primary jobs in the citywide response: clearing roads, inspecting structures and conducting search-and-rescue operations, as well as acquiring resources to shore up damaged infrastructure and deploying staff to the field to do the work.
Public Works staff during a training exercise at the department's Operations Yard. Public Works staff during a training exercise at the department's Operations Yard.
October 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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When disaster strikes, the Public Works team will be at the forefront of the City's response.

Today, we participated in a training exercise to help us prepare for a real-life incident. The scenario: a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake on the San Andreas Fault, causing widespread damage across SF.
Public Works staff during a training exercise at the department's Operations Yard. Public Works staff during a training exercise at the department's Operations Yard.
October 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Every month, scores of volunteers join us for our #LoveOurCity Neighborhood Beautification Day greening & cleaning event. Today, while in the Sunset, we honored Washington HS student Aiden Liu as our first NBD All Star for volunteering at his 6th workday this year. Thank you, Aiden, for stepping up!
Washington High School student Aiden Liu, our first Neighborhood Beautification Day All Star, and Public Works Director Carla Short. Community volunteers work on the schoolyard garden at Sunset Elementary School.
October 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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📢 Come and join us for Neighborhood Beautification Day this weekend!

We are cleaning and greening the Sunset, Parkside and other District 4 neighborhoods.

📅 Saturday, Oct. 4
⏰ 8:30 a.m. - noon
📍 Sunset Elementary School, 41st Avenue & Ortega Street
📋 Sign up: www.mobilize.us/sanfrancisco...
Public Works flyer for the Oct. 4 Neighborhood Beautification Day in District 4. Come and join us for Neighborhood Beautification Day this weekend! We are cleaning and greening the Sunset, Parkside and other District 4 neighborhoods. There will be 7-10 worksites where volunteers will garden, mulch, pick up litter, plant trees or abate graffiti. The projects and tasks will be different, depending on the site and community group's requests. Date: Saturday, Oct. 4 Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. PST Location: Sunset Elementary School, 41st Avenue and Ortega Street, San Francisco, CA 94122 Sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/sanfrancisco/event/570625/
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🗣️ Our latest newsletter is out:

🏙️ Block Party: Building a new block
🕵 New operation to combat illegal dumping
🧹 Ramping up for a cleaner SF
🚶 Busy corridor gets pedestrian safety overhaul
🛝 Stern Grove Playground renovation
💚 Neighborhood Beautification Day

🔗 www.sfpublicworkstv.org/september2025
Towering climbing structures, evoking tree houses, stand as the centerpiece of the new Stern Grove Playground. Crews smooth out fresh concrete on a new block of East Clementina Street. Mom and daughter, in safety vests and wielding rakes, work as a team during our September volunteer workday. A member of the Outreach and Enforcement Team sifts through garbage looking for identifying information to catch an illegal dumping culprit.
October 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A beautiful morning at the Pier 27 James R. Herman Cruise Ship Terminal. Public Works managed the project for the @sfport.bsky.social and provided landscape architecture services for the world-class terminal.

Learn more at: sfpublicworks.org/cruiseshipte...
September 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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🗣️ Come and join us for Neighborhood Beautification Day next month!

We are cleaning and greening the Sunset, Parkside and other District 4 neighborhoods.

📅 Saturday, Oct. 4
⏰ 8:30 a.m. - noon
📍 Sunset Elementary School, 41st Avenue & Ortega Street
📋 Sign up: www.mobilize.us/sanfrancisco...
Public Works flyer for the Oct. 4 Neighborhood Beautification Day in District 4. Come and join us for Neighborhood Beautification Day next month! We are cleaning and greening the Sunset, Parkside and other District 4 neighborhoods. There will be 7-10 worksites where volunteers will garden, mulch, pick up litter, plant trees or abate graffiti. The projects and tasks will be different, depending on the site and community group's requests. Date: Saturday, Oct. 4 Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. PST Location: Sunset Elementary School, 41st Avenue and Ortega Street, San Francisco, CA 94122 Sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/sanfrancisco/event/570625/
September 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Did you know Public Works has locksmiths?

Our locksmith shop conducts routine maintenance across many City buildings, repairs and replaces locks, makes new keys and responds to emergency requests.

Here Public Works locksmith Vincent Vou is checking and cleaning doors at City Hall.
Public Works locksmith Vincent Vou checks and cleans doors at City Hall to make sure they're up to snuff. Public Works locksmith Vincent Vou in a reflective safety vest. Public Works locksmith Vincent Vou checks and cleans doors at City Hall to make sure they're up to snuff as people walk into the building. Public Works locksmith Vincent Vou looks up at a doorframe at City Hall.
September 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM