I know for a fact that SF, and for that matter every major city in the US with a “homeless” problem, are in violation of their NPDES stormwater discharge permits. Allowing people to crap on the sidewalk and streets would cause fecal matter to be washed into the storm drain system and from there to every body of water that they discharge into.
These cities are in be with the major eco-activist groups that routinely sue businesses and industries every time there is a violation of these same discharge permits.
Surely the EPA can provide some e coli concentration data or something that quantifies this for those who demand “science”.
What are the remedies for those violations? How can they be applied to SF?
“I know for a fact that SF, and for that matter every major city in the US with a “homeless” problem, are in violation of their NPDES stormwater discharge permits. Allowing people to crap on the sidewalk and streets would cause fecal matter to be washed into the storm drain system and from there to every body of water that they discharge into.”
Thanks.
Yet, if someone was walking their dog or dogs and the dog/dogs had a bowel movement in the street above a street drain, they could get a big fine if they didn’t pick up their dog poop.
Yet, today, the so called homeless can crap on any sidewalk or in the gutter with no legal problems.