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SFPUC presents SSIP workshop: LID, tunnel, biosolids and targets under scrutiny
Summary
At a April 27, 2010 workshop staff presented the fifth session on the Source System Improvement Program, recommending low-impact development, a Channel Tunnel, a Class A biosolids facility and expanded asset renewal while commissioners pressed for clearer quantification of targets, costs and rate impacts.
Karen Kubik, director of the wastewater capital improvement program, used the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s April 27 workshop to lay out proposed levels of service and a slate of projects for the Source System Improvement Program (SSIP).
Kubik told commissioners the program rests on eight goals including reducing pollutant loading to the Bay, minimizing flooding, improving environmental stewardship and building resilience for climate change. “We could reduce CSDs by a volume of a billion gallons,” she said, summarizing modeling that found long‑term low‑impact development (LID) could substantially cut combined sewer…
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