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SFPUC updates Mountain Tunnel schedule and lays out emergency-response plan
Summary
Assistant General Manager for Water Steve Ritchie told the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission the Mountain Tunnel program will pause for a major inspection in early 2017 and that staff are developing an emergency-response plan aimed at returning service in under 90 days; the Commission signaled it will adopt a schedule once inspection results inform the bypass-versus-repair decision.
Steve Ritchie, Assistant General Manager for Water, told the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on June 23 that the Mountain Tunnel program is now organized in three parts: access improvements, an inspection-and-repair program and a possible bypass project. Ritchie said a major inspection is scheduled for early 2017 and that the Commission will reevaluate the long-term approach — bypass or repair — after that inspection and initial repair work.
Ritchie described staff work on an "emergency response implementation" that would mobilize staff,…
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