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Trump To Slap SF With Notice Of Environmental Violation
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Sept 18

Posted on 09/18/2019 11:46:32 PM PDT by Helicondelta

The Trump administration plans to deliver a notice of environmental violation to San Francisco over its homelessness problem.

President Trump said late Wednesday the notice would come from the Environmental Protection Agency. He said waste, specifically used needles, in storm sewers is contributing to ocean pollution.

He added: “They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell.”

In a statement, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the city has a sewer system that runs effectively, keeping debris from reaching the Bay or the Pacific Ocean.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: andrewwheeler; california; environment; epa; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; heroin; homelessness; londonbreed; opiodcrisis; sanfrancisco; trumpepa
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1 posted on 09/18/2019 11:46:32 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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In a statement, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the city has a sewer system that runs effectively, keeping debris from reaching the Bay or the Pacific Ocean.

This is satire, right?

2 posted on 09/18/2019 11:50:49 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Hillary has more mysterious deaths around her than Jessica Fletcher.)
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To: Helicondelta

You won’t find that in a travel brochure.


3 posted on 09/18/2019 11:54:01 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Carthago delenda est)
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I’d like to see this guy who does SF sewer clean-up and messes around with needles in the system. Personally, even at $5,000 a day for pay....I wouldn’t do the job.


4 posted on 09/18/2019 11:54:29 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Helicondelta

I would cite them for untreated human waste in the storm systems polluting the sea.
Poor poor fishies...they breathe that shite.


5 posted on 09/19/2019 12:04:19 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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6 posted on 09/19/2019 12:07:30 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise

Fine them 1,000,000 a day for each violation.


7 posted on 09/19/2019 12:08:47 AM PDT by Enterprise
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I had the same thought, the human waste was running into the Pacific untreated, so have the EPA under the Clean Water Act sue San Francisco as a source polluter.


8 posted on 09/19/2019 12:11:14 AM PDT by Lockbox
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“the city has a sewer system that runs effectively, keeping debris from reaching the Bay or the Pacific Ocean”.


Does it go straight to City Hall.


9 posted on 09/19/2019 12:15:00 AM PDT by o-n-money
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To: Helicondelta

Trump Karma is a ___________!


10 posted on 09/19/2019 12:16:05 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Helicondelta

Clean sewer deniers


11 posted on 09/19/2019 12:22:24 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

As one who grew up in a family that constructed municipal water and sewer and stormwater works

You are correct

There is no filtration of that which runs down streets and into gutters

It goes to rivers and oceans in rain

And often intermingles with sewerage since rainwater infiltrates sanitary sewer during downpours causing it to overflow into storm water systems

Like when folks see a manhole lid bubbling over...
That’s toilet and dishwater mixed with rainwater running over

Plus sewer treatment plants can’t handle max flow in sanitary trunk lines and have to divert most to river or bay

It’s just how it is

In a typical costly example of hypocrisy municipalities today often require business owner parking lots to have detention ponds and weirs with traps and settling tanks for runoff

But not at govt parking lots or govt or public pavement

Like they do everything ...

Force us to yet they don’t comply


12 posted on 09/19/2019 12:24:08 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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> Mayor London Breed said the city has a sewer system that runs effectively

So the ocean is safe - only the people are exposed to contamination. Great.


13 posted on 09/19/2019 12:28:05 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Blows my mind that these ASSHATS are so worried about climate change YET people pooping in the streets, rats running everywhere filth and garbage EVERYWHERE is no problem at all!!! These Libs are truly just insane without one lick of common sense!!! They don’t even SEE the hypocrisy in ALL that they say and do!!!


14 posted on 09/19/2019 12:29:24 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Helicondelta

Environmentalist are typically the dirties and messiest people which is why the sh^t in the streets ending up in the water ways didn’t bother them.


15 posted on 09/19/2019 12:30:44 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Lockbox

They should be fined bigtime for that. Everyday, several hundred thousand dollars. Retroactively, natch. Our county had to move the yard waste site, due to possibility of flooding. Leaves could get in the river don’tcha know. Also storm drain tile footings in older homes had to modify them at owner expense.

Give them exactly what they dish out, good and hard. Then give ‘em some more, so they get the message. Maybe.


16 posted on 09/19/2019 12:40:37 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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It’s a knee slapper alright. Infected needles, human feces... and they probably want to recycle waste water for human consumption to expand the cane toad habitat or something like that.


17 posted on 09/19/2019 12:44:58 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Enterprise

How about slapping them with a civil rights lawsuit? I can’t exactly think of a cause of action off the top of my head, an IANAL, but it’s time for the geese to meet the ganders.


18 posted on 09/19/2019 12:46:21 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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He said waste, specifically used needles, in storm sewers is contributing to ocean pollution.

'needles' is just the hook to get the frisco numnuts to attack.

next will be untreated human waste for which the friscozoids have neither a response nor solution.

friscans will rue the day they took on this President.


19 posted on 09/19/2019 12:52:40 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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California has a water runoff law. Any industrial or commercial activity has to be completely covered to prevent contamination of the runoff water. Anyone operating an industrial or commercial enterprise is subject to this law. You have to file with the state every year showing the slope of your property and where water runs, and subject to inspection. We had no issues at our place of work but of course an inspector isn’t doing his job if he doesn’t find something to write up. So he told us to install an industrial sponge by the door “just in case” there is some kind of spillage that may potentially leak out into the driveway.

Cars are exempt, but if you do any work outdoors or in the parking lots or back lots or store anything outdoors you have to show how it won’t cause contaminant to run off into the sewers. I wonder if municipalities and states are exempt?


20 posted on 09/19/2019 12:53:06 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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