San Francisco Bay: $816,000 fine issued for sewage pollution in big storm
The heavy storms that soaked the Bay Area last October ended fire season and brought hopes — dashed during dry winter months later — that the state’s drought might be ending.
East Bay MUD treats the sewage of 776,000 people living in Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and other communities. The concept is simple: When heavy flows from storms overwhelm the system, some of the wastewater is diverted away from the district’s main plant in Oakland near the Bay Bridge to the three “wet weather” plants, which store it in tanks. The facilities can treat it to basic standards, called primary treatment, where workers use filters, screens and chlorine, before releasing it into the bay. Without treatment, raw sewage can carry disease, making people sick, and can harm fish and wildlife.
As workers frantically called their chemical supplier at night, not getting more until the next morning, they released 16.5 million gallons of partially treated sewage into the Richmond Inner Harbor — 3.8 million gallons of which had levels of chlorine more than 10 times above the legal limit — and much of the rest with elevated levels of coliform bacteria.
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