DISTRICT 10 RESIDENTS UNITED TO STOP THE TRANS BAY CABLE PROJECT

APRI shares your goal of shutting down the Potrero Power plant and is eager to help make that a reality. In addition, APRI is also eager to help with the relocation of the wastewater operations from the Southeast Waste Water Treatment Plant to the Ocean Plant and eventually closing the plant in Bayview.                                     

APRI continues to educate the community about concerns with the TBC project. Few in the community fully understand the significant environmental challenges, geographic and other land use impacts this project will have on the community. It is even believed that this project is needed to close the Potrero Power Plant when in fact, the California Independent System Operator has indicated that building the TBC is NOT linked to closure of the power plant.’ Should this project be built, the community in district 10 will be saddled with both a power plant and a huge converter station doubling the negative environmental impact.

APRI urges everyone to direct the SF PUC staff to properly educate the community in all of district 10 what the environmental impacts are of building the TBC project and be specific that a converter station taking up close to five acres will be installed.

The following is a petition APRI has drafted soliciting the signatures of District 10 residents.

Supervisor Maxwell, Members of the SF Board of Supervisors, SFPUC President Ryan Brooks and Members of the SF Public Utilities Commission:                                                                 We, the undersigned residents of District 10, are opposed to the development of the Trans Bay Cable (TBC) in our community. There is NO guarantee that building the TBC will close the Potrero Power Plant. We are concerned that to build the TBC a huge converter station will be built in our community. We are opposed to the $27 million “pay-off” the SF Port and PUC have negotiated to gain their support of the TBC project.   The Southeast community has long been the government’s toxic dumping ground from power plants to waste disposal facilities. Now the SFPUC and the Port want to dump another project in our community. We urge the Board of Supervisors to : (1) demand that all of the $27 million go to close the Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant, (2) that the SF PUC get a guarantee from the State that building the TBC will result in closing the Potrero Power Plant,  (3) if the project moves forward, that 50% of all TBC work be done by local workers from the community.

If you are a resident of district 10, concerned with the construction of the TBC project and interested to learn more about the environmental repercussions please feel free to contact any APRI-SF representative at the following numbers:

(415) 821 4734      •      (415) 821 4733       •      (415) 821 4732