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PUC workshop recommends new off‑site Class A biosolids facility; staff frames SSIP as $7 billion program with affordability guardrails
Summary
At a July 10 SSIP workshop staff recommended building a new Class A biosolids facility (Option 3), presented project alternatives and timelines, and framed the larger 20‑year Sewer System Improvement Program at about $7 billion while discussing rate impacts and affordability measures.
San Francisco — In a long afternoon workshop on July 10, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and staff moved through the first of three SSIP validation workshops and recommended a path forward on the city—s biosolids treatment needs while framing the larger sewer system improvement program (SSIP) as a roughly $7 billion, multi‑decade capital program.
Karen Kubith, director of the service management program, told the commission that staff and the program manager validated facility conditions and identified four biosolids options: 1) continue repairing and maintaining the existing in‑place facilities; 2) rebuild in place using similar technologies; 3) build a new off‑site facility to produce Class A biosolids with modern digestion, dewatering and cogeneration and accommodate fats/oils/grease and food‑waste co‑digestion;…
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