SF News SF’s Water Pollution Lawsuit Against the EPA Is Heading to the US Supreme Court The US Supreme Court is wading into the mess of San Francisco’s wastewater and sewage treatment controversy, and will take the case in which SF sued the EPA over how much sewage they can allow into the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Feds and State Both Sue SF, Claiming the City Lets Sewage Spill Into the Ocean and the Bay The EPA, state Attorney General, and SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board just dropped a combined lawsuit onto the City of San Francisco, claiming the city has allowed “more than 1.8 billion gallons of untreated sewage” to flow each year into the Bay and Pacific Ocean
SF News Group of Marina Residents Including Joe Montana Sue SF for Property Damage Caused by New Year's Flood Residents of the affluent bayside Marina Boulevard say that a lack of proper wastewater infrastructure made their homes flood with sewage in a new lawsuit against the city of SF.
SF News 12,500 Gallons of Raw Sewage Spills in Martinez It is not a good time to visit the Contra Costa County city of Martinez, as a burst sewer pipe has spewed more than 12,000 gallons of unpleasantness that’s bubbling up through the city’s storm drains.
SF News A Half-Mile of the Great Highway To Be Eliminated for an Ultramodern Sewage Plant Remodel The sewage facility we once tried to name after George W. Bush is getting a big (and overbudget) upgrade, but will remove a small chunk of the Great Highway.
SF News San Francisco's Population Boom and How It Impacts You By some estimates, at least 30,000 extra people have moved into San Francisco since 2010. Where are we putting them all? That's still being worked out, clearly. But in the
SF News Overflowing Manholes Shut Down Ocean Beach Gross: overnight rains caused several leaky manholes to overflow along the Great Highway at Ocean Beach last night, prompting the SF Public Utilities Commission to temporarily shut down parts of the pedestrian path
SF News 'Stinky' Sewage Spill At 17th & Folsom A sewage spill blanketed the inner Mission with a faint sent of fecal matter this morning. Pipes overflowed due to last night's rain. Ew. Gross. According to KRON 4 Morning News,
SF News PG&E Outage Dumps Sewage At Ocean Beach Last night's rain caused a power outage in the Sunset District around 8:30 p.m. that left some 5,800 PG&E customers in the dark and knocked out
SF News Woman's Poop-Covered Necklace Returned Via Sewer; She Is Elated A woman's prized gold necklace, which she accidentally flushed down the toilet last fall, was returned to her this week by a San Rafael sanitation worker who fished it out of
SF News Low-Flow Toilets Stinking Up Mission Bay Matier & Ross report on a frightening and malodorous problem caused by San Francisco's low-flow toilets, and it's costing the city millions of dollars. Behold: Skimping on toilet
SF News Inherit the Waste: SF Courtrooms Flooded With Raw Sewage If you're midway through your lunchtime Lean Cuisine, you might want to wait before reading the following. See, 850 Bryant stank to high heaven on Thursday, and not because of this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Approves of Growing Food on Toxic Sewage Sludge? Food fight! At noon today tomorrow, the Organic Consumers Association (an online grassroots effort dealing with "crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair
SF News Storms Prompt 630,000 Gallon Sewage Spill by Amy Crocker Hope you didn't take advantage of the nice weather by surfing, swimming, or engaging in other open water activities. It is estimated that during the past stormy weeks
SF News San Francisco Wastewater Treatment Facility Becoming Popular Tourist Destination Last year's ballot measure to change the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility's name in honor of George W. Bush is undoubtedly partially responsible for the influx of tourists checking out
SF News Marin Sewage Plant Leaks 300,000 Gallons of Sewage Into Bay Repairs to a faulty pipe that has leaked an estimated 300,000 gallons of shit, piss, and miscellaneous into the Bay will be fixed later today. According to KCBS, "A pipe that
SF News Breaking News: George W. Bush Sewage Plant Renaming Qualifies for November Ballot Wayne Pickering (AKA, Brian McConnell), head of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco formed to honor George W. Bush -- which, at the risk of boasting, SFist was the first to tell you
SF News San Francisco Proposal For George W. Bush Sewage Plant Gets the FOX Treatment As most of you know by now, the George W Bush Sewage Plant proposal--news that SFist broke way back in March (yay, us!)--is making the rounds all across this great country
SF News Oh Shit: Prisoner Poop Fills the Bay According to Marin County officials, about "1,500 gallons of raw sewage" was dumped into the San Francisco Bay today near Point San Quentin. Grody. According to the Gate: Deartment of
SF News Sewage Spill Dumps 2.7 Million Gallons Into the Bay After an alert system SNAFU failed to notify workers at a Marin County treatment facility about a sewage overflow on Thursday night, the San Francisco Bay is now the proud recipient of 2.
