Gee, how nice - #PGE Resource center is open from 5 - 10 pm, and then people without power can go back to their electricity-free homes in the dark at 10 pm. Such service to people left in the dark. When will #SFPUC be allowed to take over the local grid from the mismanagement of PG&E? We need public power sooner, not later.
#sfpuc
Four Bay Area beaches are among 10 of the dirtiest in CA, as our partners at Heal the Bay report.
And San Francisco accounts for A LOT of coastal California's sewage spills.
Last year, the EPA & CA joined us in suing SFPUC for its 500+ Clean Water Act violations, including bypassing treatment systems and failing to maintain required treatment capacity during storms.
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/four-bay-area-beaches-ranked-among-dirtiest-21073825.php
#sewage #sewagepollution #sanfrancisco #sfpuc #sf #cleanwateract #waterpollution #bayarea #sfbay #sanfranciscobay @sfgate
San Francisco handed #SCOTUS the chance to weaken the #CleanWaterAct -- and they took it.
This ruling will make it easier for polluters to pollute, and harder for regulators to protect the health of people and the environment. Really shameful.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12029553/supreme-court-sides-with-san-francisco-against-epa-sewage-lawsuit
#sfpuc #sanfrancisco #pollution #waterpollution #waterislife
How #SanFrancisco Sh/t Just Flushed Away The Power Of The #EPA and #CleanWaterAct ...
#ICYMI #SF ex City Attorney/ current #SFPUC General Manager Dennis Herrera Set Up A Landmark Conservative #Pollution Positive Victory AT #SCOTUS ...
Herrera & The #CityByTheBay Are Saluted By Case Allies Like The American #Fuel & #Petrochemical Manufacturers, National #Mining Assn, and farming waste advocates...
You Just #CantMakeThisShitUp ...
And Thank You, #DavidChiu, #SFPUC, #LondonBreed for your leadership in environmental damage.
You succeeded in doing exactly what everyone who was paying attention predicted would happen.
Now we won't have to protect the quality of SF Bay waters, or Ocean Beach - and neither will most other cities on bodies of water except as specified on very specific permit requirements by an agency that is now gutted by the DOGE.
This is not a narrow ruling. This poses immense risks to water quality around the US, and ultimately will cost as more as more and more prescriptive regulations - what to do exactly in each case- come into being (assuming the EPA has staff to develop the regs in our new DOGE eat everything else world)
SF dumps millions of gallons of sewage during big storms -- not cool, guys!! 💩 ⛈️ ☔️
As our executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh told KQED, discharge areas are sacrifice zones where the city has nowhere else to release polluted water.
"They're not allowed to be discharging this much bacteria and pollution into the Bay, yet they are doing it."
https://www.kqed.org/science/1996145/sf-dumps-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-during-big-storms-surfers-say-that-needs-to-stop #sf #sanfrancisco #sfpuc #sewage #sewagepollution #sfbay #sanfraciscobay
Our field investigator captured footage today showing SFPUC's sluice gates once again overflowing--releasing feces, trash & other pollution directly into Mission Creek and SF Bay 😠
This is why we're taking legal action to get SFPUC to clean up its act: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/san-francisco-caught-dumping-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-into-sf-bay-every-year/
#sfpuc #sanfrancisco #sf #bayarea #sewage #pollution #missioncreek
Went from dry to drowning rat in about 30 seconds there, but I’m keeping my adopted drains cleared and there is no flooding there. https://adoptadrain.sfwater.org/ #adoptadrain #sfpuc
SFPUC has handed the Supreme Court an opportunity to weaken the #CleanWaterAct for the entire country -- with potentially devastating consequences.
So shameful.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12009496/san-francisco-challenges-epa-in-supreme-court-over-water-pollution-standards
Thanks to #SFPUC, the activist super-majority on #SCOTUS now has a new opportunity to weaken the #CleanWaterAct 😡
Supreme Court agrees to hear water pollution fight between San Francisco, EPA:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/supreme-court-san-francisco-epa-19481948.php
"Anytime there is discharge from the #SFPUC gates, from the creek, these homes are exposed to anything that is in the water," said Baykeeper Director Sejal Choksi-Chugh. "It's a pretty sad situation. Anytime there is a heavy rainstorm there is massive amounts of discharge like trash and #sewage, syringes and condoms." https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/mission-creek-houseboat-resident-concerned-about-pollution-from-filthy-san-francisco-sewer-runoff/ #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #sewagepollution #sanfrancisco
BREAKING: In a remarkable development, the EPA and State of California have joined Baykeeper in taking legal action against San Francisco for discharging millions of gallons of raw sewage directly into the Bay.
Learn more: https://baykeeper.org/blog/breaking-us-epa-and-state-california-join-our-fight-hold-sfpuc-accountable #sf #sfpuc #sanfrancisco #waterpollution
Great interview on KPFA about our new case against SFPUC for dumping sewage in the Bay: https://kpfa.org/episode/raw-sewage-in-the-bay-and-media-matters-annual-climate-coverage-stats/ #sfpuc #sewage #sewagepollution #sanfrancisco #waterpollution #kpfa
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) explains and defends their environmental practices after news of a potential lawsuit. SFPUC Press Secretary Nancy Hayden Crowley states, "We’ll stand behind our environmental track record anywhere, including in a court of law."
https://alamedapost.com/op-ed/sfpuc-responds-to-baykeepers-intent-to-take-legal-action/
BREAKING: Our investigation revealed that SF is allowing huge amounts of sewage pollution to flow into creeks, the ocean, and the Bay: "What SFPUC is dumping into Mission Creek each year is mind-boggling to me, both in content and magnitude," as Baykeeper attorney Eric Buescher put it: https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/sewage-water-san-francisco-18709868.php #sfpuc #sanfrancisco #sf #waterpollution #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #missioncreek
Don't flush pills or throw them in the trash!
"Wastewater treatment plants are not equipped to remove drugs and chemicals out of our waste stream," as Baykeeper director Sejal Choksi-Chugh says, "[without proper disposal] those pharmaceuticals, drugs, all of those chemicals get directly into the water." https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/safely-disposing-of-unwanted-medication-can-help-keep-san-francisco-bay-clean-people-safe/ #waterpollution #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #sanfrancisco #sf #sfpuc
https://adoptadrain.sfwater.org/ Just recleaned my six adopted drains. Do your part to keep San Francisco flowing: Adopt A Storm Drain! #SFPUC #AdoptADrainSF #CAWx #AtmosphericRiver
And to whomever is maintaining the website, please bring back the names. I named mine for all the cats and dogs I have adopted over the years: Moose, Puddles, Stella, Marmot, Elsie and Soba.
Big thanks to the SF Board of Supervisors & Supervisor Peskin for calling on SFPUC to invest in #WaterRecycling technology that could simultaneously reduce the City's impact on #SFBay through unsustainable water demand & wastewater pollution https://sfexaminer.com/news/can-san-francisco-save-the-bay/article_53f6e53a-ad85-11ed-8221-7b88023d1b77.html #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscobay #sfpuc #cawater
Through its unsustainable diversion of mountain #rivers and its antiquated wastewater treatment system, San Francisco has an outsized negative effect on the #Bay that shares its name. This week, the city Board of Supervisors asked its water utility (#SFPUC) to do more #WaterRecyling to protect #SFBay and increase #water supply reliability
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/can-san-francisco-save-the-bay/article_53f6e53a-ad85-11ed-8221-7b88023d1b77.html
#SanFrancisco
#CAWater
@londonbreed
@sfbaykeeper
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