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From the police blotter: good news: they caught the guys. Bad news, some innocent bystander's van got shot up.

4:15 pm Cesar Chavez and Bryant Streets

Ingleside and Mission Station officers responded to the neighborhood on the call of shots fired. Citizens reported seeing a gunman firing shots from an SUV. The investigation brought officers to the first block of Gold Mine Drive in the Diamond Heights neighborhood. There the officers found a handgun and ammunition. Three males: a 19 year old from the Mission District, another 19 year from Diamond Heights, and a 17 year old from the mid-Market Street neighborhood, were arrested for aggravated assault and gang charges.

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In the last few days, a lot of underground survey marks have popped up on Treat from Precita to the South end of Treat. Tonight, we encountered some PG&E employees marking/surveying gas lines, and asked them if they knew what was up.

``The city is going to do construction to fix the pot holes.`` Was the response. ``Not us, the City``.

You may remember, between October 2003 and Feb 2004, the city replaced the sewer line going down Treat ave. They opened up a 2 foot trench in the middle of the street, replaced the sewer lines, repaved the street and also replaced the curbs on the street.

Apparently, they didn't do something right when they closed up the trench in the middle of the street, because it has been sinking. There are numerous potholes, including the rather large one that appeared in January 2008, so hopefully the construction will be done properly this time.

However, we might be in for another 2 months of Treat being under construction again, like it was in last 2003.

(Here are some pictures from the 2003/2004 sewer replacement on Treat)



The photo below shows a cross-section of the street after it was cut through. Notice the old cobblestones/ bricks under the asphalt.





The new sewer line. They would rip out the old pipes, and immediately replace it with the new pipes.







The new pipes were laid in a bed of gravel, our understanding is because that gives the pipes a bit of room to move during an earthquake.



If you know anything more about this construction, post a comment. Calls to 311 were directed to a voicemail number for DPW, who didn't return our call.

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If you see a big pot hole, you can actually call 311 and they will actually repair it. It might take 2 weeks. But it will get done.

Treat above Precita has been having some pothole issues since the sewer construction (re-cnstruction?) a couple years back.

About a week after Calling 311 and reporting the hole, DPW came out and checked it out, and left some barriers.



The hole kept getting deeper, and the barriers started to tilt.



Finally, a couple days ago, it got fixed. Yay!



Calling 311 does work!

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Why was someone in a City of SF vehicle cutting up a fallen tree on the 1500 block of Treat at 1:30am on Monday morning?

I know there are a lot of fallen trees in the city right now, but really, chain saws at 1:30am in the morning?

This is the tree (as seen Friday) that they were cutting on:

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The power is back on on Treat, parts of Precita and Harrison (above Precita).

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Folsom is blocked between Stoneman and Ripley, due to several fallen trees. Happened sometime between noon and 2pm. (Click images for larger versions.)

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Ingleside police officers will be monitoring various areas of the
district during the July 4th evening due to fireworks danger, alcohol
consumption and loitering. Three high profile areas to be monitored are Mt.
Davidson, Bernal Hill and the open space area adjacent to Walter Haas
Playground.

Which means, if you're planning on celebrating freedom with a glass of champagne on Bernal Hill, you'll be busted. Or at least, they'll make you pour out your bottle.

You've been warned!

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05/05/07 8:15 pm Alabama and Precita

Officers Melonee Alvarez and Shawn Phillips spotted a known and wanted gang fugitive on Precita. When the suspect saw the officers, he took off running. The officers chased him eight blocks, up hills, to the backyard of a residence on the 200 block of Mullen. At that location they captured him and arrested him for a no bail San Mateo County probation warrant and for resisting arrest. Case #070463472

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A large Semi truck (Seneca Foods truck #318, Idaho plates) was driving north on Harrison at Precita where it got stuck making a turn onto Precita. Traffic was backed up on precita and had to go the wrong way to get out. It eventually got on Cesar Chavez heading East and on Evans and then into the loading dock of Restaurant Depot. The person in the left of the image is the driver who had gotten out of the truck to presumably check for damage from hitting the fire hydrant.

How did the truck get onto Harrison south of Precita there in the first place!?! This was a very lost truck driver.

It caused quite the backup on Precita and drivers were forced to go the wrong way to get back to Folsom.

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