You'll feel so much better.
Posted on 09/04/2023 4:24:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Joe and Jennifer Montana are among the people suing San Francisco, alleging city departments did nothing to prevent "torrents of water and untreated sewage" from flooding their homes.
The lawsuit, filed in the San Francisco County Superior Court on Aug. 24, was brought by dozens of families who live, rent or own property in the Marina District.
According to the lawsuit, the problem originates with San Francisco’s unusual sewer system, which is the only one in coastal California that “treats both wastewater and stormwater in the same network of pipes.” The plaintiffs allege that the city knew its aging system was “routinely” overwhelmed by “even modest winter storms.”
"A mix of raw sewage and storm water flowed in and around Plaintiffs’ properties, permeating the soils, walls, and floors, and depositing highly contaminated and toxic fecal and other raw sewage matter in and around Plaintiffs’ homes,” the suit continues. “The City has failed to take any remedial steps to properly remove the contaminants from Plaintiffs’ properties and surrounding soils despite knowing that Plaintiffs, their families, their children and other citizens are being exposed to these contaminants on a continuing basis.”
The Marina District families are pursuing damages for negligence, dangerous exposure to raw sewage and mold, cleanup costs, property value loss and more. They are seeking a jury trial; a case management conference has been scheduled for Jan. 24, 2024.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I don’t know his politics but I wonder how he votes
He should move. Nothing about SF is remotely conservative. Nothing.
The sooner Joe figures this out, the better off he and his family will be.
Ooops. I probably ought to quit for the day. ;O)
Wrong Joe, n00b.
A White, male, heterosexual, natural born citizen, will find they have no standing in today’s judicial system for any suit which cannot otherwise be dismissed.
Oh you messed up never will live this down
I know. I have a custom fitted dunce cap that I'll wear as I stand in a corner, facing the walls, while pondering football legends and their specific idiosyncrasies, if any.
Guess which other major city, which also is a nation’s capital, has some combined waste water and storm water piping?
It is a shocker when you see the low house in a hilly neighborhood...
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Here’s a story that is similar but a different scenario....
I have friend who bought a new house somewhere in Westport, Connecticut about 10 or 15 years ago. As I recall, the subdivision was about 500 homes. Since the whole area was quite low, all the homeowners had to have sewage lift pump installed. A year or so after he moved in, there was an electrical power outage..... a serious one that knocked the system off for a day or so. During that time of course, water lines still were pressurized, people still flushed their toilets, had showers etc... I suppose until they got an alarm that their sewage sumps were full (or worse if they didn’t have an alarm).
Well.... at some point the power came on and since basically every house in the neighborhood had a full sewage sump by this point, they all came on at the same time. This of course caused the pressure in the sewer line to skyrocket and that high pressure went right back to everyone’s sewage lift pump. Some people were luck but my friend was not.... the pressure in the line was so high that it blew the flex connectors right off that connected the piping to the pump. He was out of the country at the time and the first he heard was when he got a call from a neighbor... “I hate to tell you this but there is sewage leaking out your front door.....” Yup. The entire neighborhood had been pumping away and filled his basement right up to the main floor.
I saw that kind of thing twice (without the basement, wow!)in hilly So. California, it is terrible and I never learned how the aftermath is handled since several inches of the walls, sheetrock, 2x4s and baseplates and everything is soaked in it.
Having been a restoration contractor many years ago, Montana has a pretty much slam dunk case.
The Montanas have been doubly harmed, having also owned a flat in the ill-fated leaning tower of San Fran.
I think the aftermath was simple... they completely demolished the place.
A basement full before it reaches the floor joists and floors, and then the first inches of the walls, and of course the furniture, that is mind-blowing.
Since it’s a class action, it could possibly go somewhere, but being that it is San Francisco, they will do everything possible to avoid responsibility & blame global climate change for the flooding that overwhelmed their obsolete sewer system.
Yup... mind blowing indeed. It’s bad enough when dealing with sewage and gravity and there is no basement. But to be dealing with a basement and the sewer line being pressurized by pumps that you have no control of? I can only imagine how bad it was, how fast his house filled up, how high it got on the main floor etc. I never got into this with my friend but I have no doubt that there was a massive lawsuit from this stupid design.
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