Wastewater Enterprise
FY 2026-27 and FY 2027-28
Proposed Budget & CIP
2 Wastewater EnterpriseOverview
• Operates and maintains San Francisco's combined sewer system. • Three all-weather wastewater treatment plants, one wet -weather facility, 32 pump stations, eight transport/storage facilities, 241 green infrastructure facilities and 25,000 catch basins to treat an estimated 34.6 billion gallons of wastewater in a typical year.
• Produces biosolids used as a synthetic fertilizer -replacement and soil amendment.
• Comprised of 500+ staff positions and eight divisions, each with a division manager.
Manage our wastewater system to protect public health and water quality of the Bay and Ocean, value environmental and community interests, and sustain the resources entrusted to our care.
Mission
Wastewater Enterprise
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Wastewater EnterpriseGoals
• Meets or exceeds all regulatory requirements across water, biosolids, biogas, and nutrient product parameters.
• Establishes, communicates, maintains and strengthens employee core competencies and performance expectations.
• Partners with key stakeholders to deliver capital projects on schedule and in a fiscally responsible manner.
• Minimizes asset failures through proper maintenance, repair and replacement. • Maximizes asset run-time through effective maintenance Operational Optimization. • Optimally manages resources to maximize wastewater treatment. • Executes day-to-day operations in a fiscally responsible manner through effective oversight of the Capital and Operating budgets.
Asset
Management Safety Long-Term Planning
Workforce Planning
& Employee
Engagement
Operating Budget
6 Budget & FTE Overview
FTE 584 589 590
-
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
FY2026 FY2027 FY2028
Debt Service Revenue-Funded Capital
Personnel Services of SFPUC Bureaus
Non-Personnel Services Service of Other Departments
Programmatic Projects Materials & Supplies
Equipment
Over the next two years:
• $139M increase in Debt Service
• COLAs account for $13.5M increase to
salaries and benefits over next two years
• Five temporary-to-permanent position
conversions to support regulatory
compliance, capital budget and workforce
development
• $6.5M to support new facilities: $4M for
power, $2M in furnishing & fixtures and
$1.5M for chemicals
• $2M to equip new facilities at Southeast
Plant
$528.0M $593.6M $653.1M
7 New Operating Budget Proposals
Division Program or Initiative FTE FY 26-27
Cost
FY 27-28
Cost
Administration Temporary to Permanent Conversions –
Budget Neutral offset with salary savings
3 $0.4* $0.5*
Regulatory
Compliance
Temporary to Permanent Conversions –
Budget Neutral offset with salary savings
2 $0.3* $0.3*
Southeast
Community Center
Event & Programming Funding $0.5 $0.5
Bayside
Operations
Power Increase for Biosolids Digester
& Biogas Facilities
- $4.0
Bayside
Operations
Chemical Increase for Biosolids Digester Facility - $1.5 Bayside
Operations
Biogas Facility Contract O&M - $1.0
Environmental
Engineering
Equipment Maintenance –
Foxboro Distributed Control System Support
$0.7 $0.7
8 New Operating Budget Proposals
Division Program or Initiative FTE FY 26-27
Cost
FY 27-28
Cost
WWE Labs Biosolids Digester Facilities & SEP 940 Furnishings $2.2 Maintenance SEP 7 Furnishings $2.0
WWE Labs Replace & Modernize Equipment $0.3 $0.5
Net New Cost *Position requests are offset by salary savings 5 $3.7 $10.2 9 Biosolids Digester Facilities O&M Costs
• Provides new solids processing systems for Southeast Plant • Will treat Southeast Plant solids to produce Class A biosolids • Testing of treatment processes to begin in 2026
Increased power demand - Ongoing $2.65M increase to work order with Light, Heat, & Power in FY28.
Increased chemical demand - Ongoing increase of $1.5M in FY28.
Total of $5.99M in new costs associated with BDFP
Furnishings and non-process equipment – One-time cost of $1.84M in FY27. 10 Biogas Utilization Facility O&M Costs
Converts biogas from new digester facilities to
Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) for PG&E pipeline injection.
Operations and Maintenance – To be contracted to a third party for the first five years of operation, projected to be $1M annually.
Total of $2.35M in new costs associated with Biogas Facility Increased power demand – $1.35M increase to the existing work order with Light, Heat & Power in FY28.
Additional Equipment, Furnishings & Services
Total of $3.97M in new costs associated
with Equipment, Furnishings & Services
SEP 940 Maintenance Building (FY27) & SEP 7 OEM Buildings (FY28) – Furnishings needed for offices, break rooms, conference rooms and maintenance area estimated to cost $2.35M.
Foxboro DCS System Support Contract – $712K for continuous software and hardware maintenance support of all the Foxboro DCS equipment installed at the Southeast and Oceanside wastewater treatment plants.
Lab Asset Management Years 1 & 2 – $908K in updated equipment to ensure compliance with State and Federal regulations,protect public health and respond to emergencies.
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