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Living in the SF Bay Area, I have witnessed people pumping flood water into the sanitary sewer. There are some low-lying spots where the storm drains can fail t
by fshbbdssbbgdd 3y ago
Living in the SF Bay Area, I have witnessed people pumping flood water into the sanitary sewer. There are some low-lying spots where the storm drains can fail to keep up with the storms, and people get desperate when their homes are flooding.
- m-ee 3y agoDuring large storms sewage does end up in the bay and ocean. SF county has pretty active monitoring and you can view hotspots in almost real time. San Mateo samples weekly and their warnings follow a moving average so their don’t swim warnings are delayed. Linda Mar is pretty consistently borderline or unsafe by county standards, bad news for the tech bro kooks on here. Personally I just try to not touch the creek water and hope for the best.
- jccooper 3y agoIt's code in SF to send stormwater to the regular sewer.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 3y agoIn SF they hVe a combined system so there’s not alternative. In peninsula there are separate storm drains in the streets. Better in theory! But they don’t permit a direct connection from your French drain’s sump pump into the storm system. So some people pump into their household sewer instead.
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