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PUC outlines SSIP progress; Southeast community leaders press for stronger outreach and commitments
Summary
PUC staff reported progress on the Sewer System Improvement Program including digester repairs, a Central Bayside tunnel study and biosolids alternatives; Southeast community members and commissioners pressed staff for more meaningful local engagement, clearer revenue strategies for the Southeast Community Facility, and involvement of residents in technical planning.
Karen Kubik, director of the Wastewater Capital Improvement Program, gave the quarterly SSIP briefing, describing projects now in construction (an oxygen replacement plant, digester repairs) and management structures including a technical steering committee chaired by Emilio Cruz and a planned Green Infrastructure Advisory Group being formed with SPUR. Kubik highlighted climate-adaptation work, saying planning assumes about "12 inches by 2050" of sea-level rise and that Urban Watershed Assessment results will inform tunnel sizing and…
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