NCA Signs Landmark PLA Exceeding $4.3 Billion
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Public Utility Commission GM Susan Leal, and NCA Executive Vice President Raymond Poupore, present the signed project labor agreement that will create jobs for union members for the next 10 years.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Appropriately proclaimed “Project Labor Agreement Day”, city officials including San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome and members of the San Francisco Public Utility Commission (SFPUC), joined with Labor leaders on April 10, 2007, to sign a historic project labor agreement to upgrade the region’s water supply system.
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Built in 1923, the damaged Stanford Heights Reservoir is one of approximately 75 projects covered under the new PLA that will undergo major seismic retrofits to ensure the safety and reliability of the City's drinking water system.

The Stanford Heights Reservoir served as the backdrop for the landmark signing of the Water System Improvement Program (WSIP) Project Labor Agreement. This reservoir will be the first project to be included in the new $4.3 billion agreement. The projects will repair, replace, and seismically upgrade the system’s aging pipelines, tunnels, reservoirs, pump stations, storage tanks, dams and other facilities that support water delivery to San Francisco neighborhoods. The program will provide for improved levels of service for water supply, seismic recovery, water quality, drought reliability and sustainability through more than 75 San Francisco and regional projects. More importantly, it will create over 12 million hours of work for union craft workers over the next ten years, seventy-five percent (or approximately 9.4 million hours) of which will be performed by NCA union members.

For almost a year, the NCA has been in negotiations with the SFPUC and others to hammer out the details of the PLA. Vice President of Capital Improvements, Michael D’Antuono, represented the NCA at the negotiating table and was instrumental in sealing the deal on behalf of the Basic Trades.

“NCA on behalf of its affiliated unions has demonstrated its commitment to the working families of our unions to insure good jobs for many years on this historic project”, says Raymond J. Poupore, Executive Vice President of the NCA, after placing his signature on the agreement.
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The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, while providing water to millions of people in the San Francisco Bay Area, also provides visitors with access to spectacular beauty and the wilderness of Yosemite National Park.

The SFPUC manages reservoirs located in three distinct watersheds. The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is located in Yosemite National Park within the 459-square-mile Tuolumne River watershed. Approximately eighty-five percent of the drinking water provided by the SFPUC comes from the 459-square-mile protected watershed of Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park. Sierra Nevada snowmelt flows down the Tuolumne River and into Hetch Hetchy reservoir. It is one of the nation's premier drinking water systems thanks to the protection provided by this granite basin in the Yosemite wilderness.

“Visit the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and Dam”
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