The SFPUC Headworks Facility project is part of a larger set of improvements at the Southeast Treatment Plant, a facility that intakes 80% of San Francisco's stormwater and wastewater annually. As a critical first step in the water treatment process, the new headworks facility houses essential debris/grit removal machinery and operational spaces that keep the city running smoothly. The facility works to screen out large material and grit before separating the solids and liquids for their respective treatment processes. The project also includes an odor control structure, electrical building, and load out bays for the screened materials.
Daylight throughout the interior and clad in a refined, industrial material palette, the character of the new facility will define the future campus architecture.
As part of SFPUC's aim to improve the aesthetic presence of the plant in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, MWA coordinated the installation of a colorful 400 foot long art wall called "Whorl Whirl: Our Circular Nature", designed by Norie Sato, which sits along the public way as a beautiful civic offering.
Improvements to modernize the rest of campus for more robust, reliable processes and odor management are in progress at the treatment plant, including the Biosolids Digester Facilities Project, which will completely upgrade and/or replace the solids-handling processes. MWA is also involved in this ongoing project.