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Board approves settlement with State Water Board; SFPUC outlines timeline, funding for three sewer projects
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Sept. 28 to approve a resolution settling an unlitigated claim from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board concerning alleged violations of the California Water Code tied to wet-weather overflows from the city's combined sewer system.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Sept. 28 to approve a resolution settling an unlitigated claim from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board concerning alleged violations of the California Water Code tied to wet-weather overflows from the city's combined sewer system.
The settlement requires the city to enter a stipulated enforcement order and implement flood-control and overflow-reduction projects in three locations: Wawona, Folsom/Seventeenth and Lower Alameda. Supervisor Peskin said the projects are “ambitious, over a half a billion dollar” effort and asked Public Utilities Commission staff to explain deliverability and funding so the record would show how the city plans to meet the enforcement terms.
Greg Norby, assistant general manager for the wastewater enterprise at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told the board the three projects are part of the wastewater enterprise…
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