Posted on 10/05/2019 3:40:43 AM PDT by Libloather
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday accused the city of San Francisco of violating the Clean Water Act by allegedly dumping untreated wastewater into oceans.
In a letter to San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly, Regional EPA Administrator Michael Stoker said the city is failing to operate and properly maintain its wastewater collection facilities and failing to comply with water quality standards, among other violations.
The letter alleged the city discharged some two billion gallons of untreated sewer water into the ocean annually.
“The failure to properly operate and maintain the city’s sewage collection and treatment facilities creates public health risks. For example, lack of proper operation and maintenance has caused force main and pump station failures that have diverted substantial volumes of raw and partially-treated sewage to flow across the beaches and into the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean,” Stoker wrote.
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CNN is included in the cable package. Hard to get rid of it.
Good. Hoist them upon their own petards.
Another reason to live thousands of feet above sea level.
The EPA is hell on wheels in fining farmers and small towns for not treating run off rain water, while San Fran is discharging billions of gallons of untreated sewage into the ocean. It’s time to apply the law to our major cities that treat rivers and oceans as their sewers.
The system has a finite capacity and it is exceeded during heavy rainfalls. When that happens, the storm-caused surge makes the system overflow raw sewage into the bay.
I’m very glad to see the feds using the liberal-loved EPA to go after SF. Now if only they would go further and make them get rid of this antiquated sewer design. It would probably cost $500 billion to fix it.
In your second pic, a pipe exits on the left side. Where does that go? China?
San Francisco people must like this. They're willing to tolerate it.
BTW, what's the big deal about dumping it into the ocean? I thought they just left it on the streets.
It dumps into the ocean where the prevailing southerly currents carry it to Los Angeles. The Los Angelenos never notice it, however.
Environmentalists - pass thousands of laws to “protect the Earth” and then fail to have enough money to upkeep your infrastructure, resulting in raw sewage flowing into ocean.
California wastes all its money and ignores the basic services required.
I'd like the environmental laws (which were mostly passed by Dems) be applied meticulously to all Dem cities.
I imagine what is in their streets is a real problem. Turd world country diseases abound.
San Francisco, the shitty by the bay.
Maybe that’s why the Abolone grow so big?
If you keep voting Democrat, California, you will deserve what you get.
Years ago, when I was far from wealthy, I lived in a very old neighborhood on a large river. I needed to replace my septic tank. The plumber told me that, in years gone by, the household waste was dumped into the river through buried pipes, that the pipes where still there, and that it would be far cheaper to reconnect to those pipes and dump it again into the river than to replace the septic tank. Even though I could hardly afford to replace the septic tank, I said: "Absolutely not!" and replaced the septic tank. I had no intention of polluting the river and causing such a health hazard. (It didn't even occur to me to wonder what could happen if I were caught doing such a thing.)
Today the Sacramento River is an open sewer? A dangerous health hazard?
It boggles the mind that San Francisco and Los Angeles people can't seem to comprehend how deep into the abyss of decadence they have descended and continue to descend. It is truly a mass psychosis with a mass denial of psychotic magnitude.
Some of my closest and dearest relatives are California leftists. They cannot understand what's going on. It's like Candide: "This is the best of all possible worlds," as their world falls in shambles around them.
Some of them adore Gavin Newsome and Barack Obama. Some say: "Well, I think anyone who wants to come to this country to better theirself should be allowed to do so," and "I would never watch Fox News." Some get up early to watch MSNBC berate President Trump. Some say, about owning guns: "Oh! I think such things should be left to the police!" (to which my wife has replied: "Out here in the Middle of Nowhere? I don't think so)."
It is amazing how willfully blind they are to what's gong on. Some are activists who are openly promoting all this leftist decadence and madness. These are not bad people. They are good people, intelligent and educated.
It's like a horrible plague from the Dark Ages. When decadence infects a civilization, some people succumb to it. Some don't.
Isn’t one of the RULES FOR RADICALS make your opponents live by their own rules.
The left pushes environmentalism all the time. So if a farmer can be fined for over spray that gets into water, then the city should be fined for allowing people to crap in the street and allow run off to flow to the ocean.
From just south of the big lake, Okeechobee, big sugar pollutes by burning the thousands of acres of sugar prior to harvesting.
this pollutes the air and water and the EPA does nothing as the Fanjul family owns politicians like Marco Rubio.
Chilling and appalling is the insistence that all this is somehow profoundly moral.
“There have been instances of sewage flowing into the streets and entering people’s homes.”
CNN is included in the cable package. Hard to get rid of it.”
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Nice goin’. I just spewed coffee all over the cat reading that. :)
What about all the radioactive pollution from Fukushima in 2011....where did all that wind up?
So either the feces are on the street or in the ocean. San Francisco Democrats cannot govern. How can they manage the entire United States when they cannot even govern their local communities.
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