Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Precita Park Cleanup
Let’s make Precita park more beautiful!
Labels: Dog park, precita, Precita Park, Precita Valley Neighbors, pvn
Monday, October 26, 2009
History of the Precita Valley Lands
Some interesting history of the Precita Valley Lands: Bernal Bernal Everywhere via Burrito Justice: "UC Berkeley has the 1857 map for the Bernal land claim settlement – the tract is enormous, click to see the entire thing."
Check out the link for some interesting history.
Labels: precita
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Precita Valley Neighbors Monthly Meeting
Charlie’s Deli, 3202 Folsom Street (at Precita).
AGENDA:
1. Ingleside Station PVN rep will report the rash of Precita crime and the community patrol officers for our area.
2. Weeding Childrens’ Playground – bring trowels and hand shovels – we’ll walk down there after the meeting
Labels: crime, precita, Precita Park, Precita Valley Neighbors, pvn
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Sewers of San Francisco
Great old article on the Sewers of San Francisco, spotlighting Precita Creek and the "Box Sewer" under what is now Cesar Chavez.
Labels: precita, Precita Park
Monday, February 09, 2009
More construction happening on Alabama soon




We did some further investigation and found that the hole drilling actually goes from the 100 block of Bernal Heights Blvd (near Bradford), heads north/downhill to Esmerelda towards Alabama, and all the way down Alabama to Precita, where they turn East and go down Precita to Bryant.
All along this way, there are also underground survey markings for all the underground water, gas and electrical services.
It is very similar to the path that the Bernal Hills Water Pipeline takes under Bernal Hill. This is the same pipeline that was replaced over the last 18 months, and terminated at Alabama and Ripley.
Alabama street is already a major "right of way" for other utilities. There are several fiber optic lines going down Alabama (ATT, Qwest, MFN, Level 3 and CCSF/City of San Francisco's fiber ring are all ones that have manhole covers up and down the street with their names on them). We're trying to track down more details on who what the project is, and how long it will be tearing up Alabama.

Labels: bernal hills pipeline, construction, precita, water main
Friday, January 02, 2009
Rite-Way Market Fire
We are told the owners had insurance and are waiting on their claim before they can rebuild the store. We wish them well and are glad that no one was hurt.
Labels: News, precita, Precita Park
Monday, April 14, 2008
Police Report and resolution of shooting near Bryant and Precita
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.
Labels: crime, gang, gangs, police blotter, precita, Precita Park, Precita Valley Neighbors, pvn
Saturday, March 01, 2008
More Treat Ave street work?
``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.
Labels: construction, precita
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Pot Holes
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!
Labels: precita, Precita Valley Neighbors
Monday, January 07, 2008
Chainsaws at 1:30am on Treat?!?!
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:

Friday, January 04, 2008
Power back on!
Labels: precita
Folsom Blocked by fallen trees
Labels: precita, Precita Valley Neighbors, trees
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