The health of San Francisco Bay waters has prompted the state and federal government to take legal action, with the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of California suing the city of San Francisco over the amount of sewage being dumped into the bay.
San Francisco uses a combined sewer system that collects and treats both wastewater and storm water in the same network of pipes. The problem is that in really heavy rain the system can overflow. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is being blamed for billions of gallons of sewage ending up in local waterways over the years.The feds say that means water that has not been properly disinfected is being released into local creeks, the bay and onto beaches.
Anytime there is a heavy rainstorm there is massive amounts of discharge like trash and sewage, syringes and condoms.''You get needles, you get syringes. You name it,' said Heidrich.This is not a new issue. It has been going on for decades, but the lawsuit filed by the EPA and SF Baykeeper is sounding the alarm.In early March, SF Baykeeper notified San Francisco and the public utilities commission that they would be filing a lawsuit to hold them accountable for polluting the bay.
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