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SFPUC details green infrastructure progress, targets and collection system plan
Summary
Staff said 305 SMO projects are in review and the agency's suite of green infrastructure tools — grants, EIPs, streetscape programs and regional capture — could remove roughly 0.5 billion gallons/year by 2032 and 1 billion gallons/year by 2050; commissioners pressed staff on measuring jobs and ancillary benefits.
Sarah Minnick, presenting for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, framed green infrastructure as a multi‑benefit approach that now emphasizes flood resiliency and multipurpose design. Minnick said the Stormwater Management Ordinance (SMO) has produced 305 projects in review; when complete those projects will manage over 100,000,000 gallons of stormwater annually from about 325 acres in the combined sewer area and nearly 220 acres in separate sewer areas.
Minnick described the program’s four tools in the forthcoming collection system plan: regional stormwater capture and reuse at schools and parks, stormwater management on SFPUC parcels,…
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