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.
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Joe should have moved to Kansas City.
Guess what rolls downhill?
Gross negligence by city officials...
Not the kind of reparations they’re looking to hand out in SF.
Stormwater running off the streets of San Francisco would qualify as sewage regardless of whether there were separate drainage systems.
I love JM, but seriously, did he really expect the *public servants* of his community to shive a git about sewage in his domestic plumbing?
SF can’t afford to replace their aging utilities.
For that matter, few cities can.
It is a shocker when you see the low house in a hilly neighborhood and it is the house that everyone else’s sewer is filling up because the stoppage is just in front of it.
Imagine sewage overflowing every floor in the house and several inches deep throughout the home as it flows out of the doorways
and THAT’S just from the local squatters!
Taxpayers will pay and the politicians will be on to their next piece of insanity.
Hey Joe, the entire city is a cess pool.
I think it was deliberate - to make the downtown area seem more pleasant by comparison.
I thought maybe it was blowing in from the sidewalks.
New T-Shirt for Joe:
“All Fecal Matters!!”
Dems think that if Joe shuffles off the mortal coil in the next six months that Gavin Newsom can be the heir apparent.
To me the California brand is rather tainted at the moment.
Good luck with that.
LOL
Joe Montana is a rare San Francisco conservative. So it’s not likely that city officials will be jumping through hoops to help him out.
Just pay your taxes and keep quiet, Joe.
Or better yet, move.
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