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SFPUC details $3B-plus Sewer System Improvement Program; staff shows modeling that sharply reduces discharges
Summary
At a Feb. 9 special meeting, SFPUC staff presented conceptual components of a Sewer System Improvement Program (SSIP) including regulatory projects, state-of-good-repair work and green infrastructure. Modeling shows large volume reductions when hard and green measures are combined; cost estimates range into the billions.
Karen Kubik, director of the wastewater capital program, outlined the conceptual components of a Sewer System Improvement Program during a Feb. 9 special meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, telling commissioners that the package is intended to be developed through alternative analysis and environmental review.
Kubik said the SSIP is built around three buckets: regulatory projects to maintain permit compliance; state-of-good-repair work to address aging infrastructure; and environmental-benefits projects such as green infrastructure and biosolids reuse. "All of the projects we move forward with will be subject to a triple bottom line analysis," Kubik said, stressing that projects must be technically, environmentally and economically sound.
The presentation reported that the enterprise is currently in full compliance with its permits, and described regional-permit requirements — including the collection-system-focused "nine minimum controls" — that guide near-term…
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