Four Bay Area beaches are among 10 of the dirtiest in CA, as our partners at Heal the Bay report.
And San Francisco accounts for A LOT of coastal California's sewage spills.
Last year, the EPA & CA joined us in suing SFPUC for its 500+ Clean Water Act violations, including bypassing treatment systems and failing to maintain required treatment capacity during storms.
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/four-bay-area-beaches-ranked-among-dirtiest-21073825.php
#sewage #sewagepollution #sanfrancisco #sfpuc #sf #cleanwateract #waterpollution #bayarea #sfbay #sanfranciscobay @sfgate
San Francisco handed #SCOTUS the chance to weaken the #CleanWaterAct -- and they took it.
This ruling will make it easier for polluters to pollute, and harder for regulators to protect the health of people and the environment. Really shameful.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12029553/supreme-court-sides-with-san-francisco-against-epa-sewage-lawsuit
#sfpuc #sanfrancisco #pollution #waterpollution #waterislife
How #SanFrancisco Sh/t Just Flushed Away The Power Of The #EPA and #CleanWaterAct ...
#ICYMI #SF ex City Attorney/ current #SFPUC General Manager Dennis Herrera Set Up A Landmark Conservative #Pollution Positive Victory AT #SCOTUS ...
Herrera & The #CityByTheBay Are Saluted By Case Allies Like The American #Fuel & #Petrochemical Manufacturers, National #Mining Assn, and farming waste advocates...
You Just #CantMakeThisShitUp ...
And Thank You, #DavidChiu, #SFPUC, #LondonBreed for your leadership in environmental damage.
You succeeded in doing exactly what everyone who was paying attention predicted would happen.
Now we won't have to protect the quality of SF Bay waters, or Ocean Beach - and neither will most other cities on bodies of water except as specified on very specific permit requirements by an agency that is now gutted by the DOGE.
This is not a narrow ruling. This poses immense risks to water quality around the US, and ultimately will cost as more as more and more prescriptive regulations - what to do exactly in each case- come into being (assuming the EPA has staff to develop the regs in our new DOGE eat everything else world)
SF dumps millions of gallons of sewage during big storms -- not cool, guys!! 💩 ⛈️ ☔️
As our executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh told KQED, discharge areas are sacrifice zones where the city has nowhere else to release polluted water.
"They're not allowed to be discharging this much bacteria and pollution into the Bay, yet they are doing it."
https://www.kqed.org/science/1996145/sf-dumps-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-during-big-storms-surfers-say-that-needs-to-stop #sf #sanfrancisco #sfpuc #sewage #sewagepollution #sfbay #sanfraciscobay
Atmospheric rivers almost guarantee that San Francisco, with its sewage system, will dump millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. That’s a big deal for surfers who love the giant waves that the storms create.
Our field investigator captured footage today showing SFPUC's sluice gates once again overflowing--releasing feces, trash & other pollution directly into Mission Creek and SF Bay 😠
This is why we're taking legal action to get SFPUC to clean up its act: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/san-francisco-caught-dumping-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-into-sf-bay-every-year/
#sfpuc #sanfrancisco #sf #bayarea #sewage #pollution #missioncreek
San Francisco Baykeeper recently issued a notice of intent to take legal action against the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) and the City and County of San Francisco for repeated violations of the Clean Water Act. The nonprofit watchdog organization obtained information through public records requests from SFPUC, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and identified hundreds of Clean Water Act violations over the last five years.
SFPUC has handed the Supreme Court an opportunity to weaken the #CleanWaterAct for the entire country -- with potentially devastating consequences.
So shameful.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12009496/san-francisco-challenges-epa-in-supreme-court-over-water-pollution-standards
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