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SFPUC holds wastewater master‑plan workshop; staff outlines system limits, aging digesters and outreach plans
Summary
At a Southeast community workshop, SFPUC staff reviewed San Francisco’s combined sewer system, treatment‑plant capacities, aging digesters and the Digester Task Force. Staff emphasized system redundancy limits, 99‑10 workforce programs and a series of upcoming workshops on priorities, levels of service and contracting.
Tommy Moala, assistant general manager for wastewater at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, opened a special 4:30 p.m. workshop with an overview of the agency’s sewer system master‑plan process and a multi‑meeting schedule that will bring staff, commissioners and community members into detailed discussions of priorities and project options.
The presentation outlined the system’s history, structure and immediate challenges: more than 900 miles of sewer mains, nearly 200 million gallons of underground transport storage, and treatment plants built in stages from the early 20th century through the post‑1972 Clean Water Act expansions. Staff emphasized that San Francisco operates a combined sewer system — a single pipe that conveys both sanitary flow and storm runoff to…
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