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Supervisors advance emergency repairs at Southeast Wastewater plant and send $80M planning contract to the board
Summary
The Budget & Finance subcommittee approved moving forward a PUC emergency amendment to repair digesters at the Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant and forwarded a separate $80 million planning-and-engineering contract with Brown and Caldwell to the full Board after hearing strong community support and PUC commitments to local hiring and community benefits.
The San Francisco Budget & Finance Subcommittee on July 10 heard two linked Public Utilities Commission proposals to stabilize and ultimately replace aging digesters at the Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant in Bayview‑Hunters Point.
The committee agreed to an amendment, at the PUC and budget analyst’s request, to increase emergency authorization for repairs following a routine inspection that identified corroded, mobile roofs on multiple digesters. Emilio Cruz, assistant general manager for infrastructure at the PUC, told the committee the plant — commissioned in 1952 — handles a large share of the city’s solids processing and that corrosion and proximity to the bay raised…
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