it was built as a combined sewer system and what that means is that the sanitary sewage flow and run off from streets and storm drainage all flows in the same pipes. the system is built now with a large storage and transport system, the idea being we collect on a rainy day we can collect a lot of the storm water, store it in the system, and then treat it later when the rain stops. this little diagram shows you how the system would work. on a dry day, most of the sewage would be coming down the pipe, it would be flowing into the big transport structures that exist around the city, probably flowing right at the bottom of these very large structures. they are on the order of dozens of feet wide and dozens and dozens of feet deep and they have little sloped bottoms and q nets at the bottom where most of the dry weather sewage flows all the time. that waste water is transported to the treatment plant. on a rainy day, those transport storage structures, the large structure represented in the center of the picture, start to fill and they fill dramatically. it always amazes me to watch a flo

we do not need to have 80% of the sewage in our neighborhood. supervisor maxwell: next speaker, please. >> my name is francisco da costa. this is a hearing on the source system -- sewer system improvement program. supervisor maxwell: know, it is a hearing on the other. >> let me address that. some years ago the constituents of san francisco past a measure for $2.4 billion. conveniently, the san francisco public utilities commission decided to address just the waste water -- just to address the clean water and did not address the waste water. i am here to address the issue in general. first and foremost, we need to have an idea about our waste water system. there are about 1,000 miles of waste water pipes. 80% of which are very old, more than 75 years old. we also need to have a sense of what has to be explained by the puc. if that does not happen, we're going to have a backup of saltwater into the system that compromise everything. you have heard about a task force and the digesters. but really what the city and county has to address is quality

that was the problem, sewage and that was coming up and out. i am asking that to be upheld, fees required by staff. >> has it been repaired? >> yes, according to the permit, finally repaired on september 22, 2010. >> has everything been done to your satisfaction? >> according to my inspector, he says everything was corrected. >> what was the delay in getting any action between 2007 and 2010? the appellant states it was the responsibility of city to do camera work in the sewer and neighbor waiting for them. what is our process in that case? responsibility for identifying the problem? >> if it passes the curb into the street, the city will go up there to make sure that there are no breaks. from what i obtained from sewer operations, they said there was no break. they informed us there was a stoppage, and that it was the responsibility of the homeowner to repair it. that is when we posted a home for on sanitary conditions. it continuously kept on happening, and that is when we knew we had a break. >> when did they come back to that determination a

we were told in 1972 that we would only be receiving 80% of the city's sewage. i got very upset when i learned that we were getting sewage from other counties and it never been discussed. what i want you all to do is not only this, pass it on. it happened in 1996 when it collapsed and fell in. all the things went down the street into folks businesses. i never will forget one of the owners of a business called me up and tell me to come down. i said i was not coming down there. i said i was not the fixer, but i want to make sure that everything is done so we can get to work on that next year in january. you are not voting on this today? supervisor maxwell: no votes today. >> if i had known that, i would have stayed at home. [laughter] supervisor maxwell: i am glad you did not. >> i am the program manager for a young community developers. i would like to say that it has been a pleasure to serve on the panel of the waste water digester task force. although we did not always agree, it is good to know we love each other and agree to disagree. i want to speak towards t

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the good news, the pipe was carrying recycled water, not sewage. the break still caused damage to the landscape. >> i was woken up by my neighbor that the backyard was flooding. >> there was a water main, actually behind the hoist that broke and flooded our yards. >> the city of san ramon plans to start repairing the pipe tomorrow. >>> it's last call at one historic watering holes. dan brown's lounge and sports. it opened in 1926 as a steakhouse called george's. dan brown took it over six years ago. the curved bar inside follows the signs of the wall. he said the cost of fixing it up made it difficult to keep going. >>> a new kind of bullying gets

they gave grants and loans for dams and sewage. sewage treatment. airports et cetera. hopkins couldn't stand each other. and were constantly battling. they kicked the construction industry back to good health. the upper right one is the alameda park station. they could not aid the private agencies. alameda had its own electrical system. these are various projects. los angeles storm drain system. ey raised the dam. your water is a product of pw a. they built the sacramento water reservoir. the fans were so well built that in fact, they are still in use. the engineers said we have to replace a ball bearing. we of course, have neglected our infrainstruct our and it's rated to be a d and dropping. so if you don't pay your taxes, things do fall down. much of it is things that were built during the new deal. fortunately, they built them very well. so the stuff was really built to last. but, if you don't have taxes to run a state. i expect we will see more of that stuff. i will give you a brief tour that we take for granted. the commitment to public education in all its manif

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that way, reid did -- we reduce pressure on the sewage system. it is also within the city of's adopted -- city's adopted -- it has to do with things like flushing and irrigation. there is no plan, there would be no mechanism -- without this plan, there would be no mechanism. it is sort of important for the long-term water usage of the city which is trying to reduce pressures, we use recycled water for non global services -- non- drinking purposes. it would supply the development with recycle water. and lastly, the renewable energy program, the project's sponsors committing to a certain amount of on site means. or in lieu of that, it has reached a series of agreements to either pay offsets or provide that generation of site if it seems more technically feasible to build those facilities elsewhere. before turning to the development agreement, i would like to run through house of these components are incorporated -- commissioner moore: we have just heard a mouthful. we have been inundated with a lot of difficult things. i am almost at myelin that th

ross sewage from a nearby settlement pouring down to a palestinian -- raw sewage from a nearby settlementring down to a palestinian field, killing the olive trees. >> [unintelligible] >>, ultimately, this is not about all of trees. this is a struggle for land between palestinian farmers who have lived on it for centuries and jewish settlers who believe it has been given by god to them. >> we broke this 24 hours ago, but it is too good not to return to. maybe you should have a poke around your attic of the weekend. a brother and sister caring for their parents' suburban home in britain came across a chinese vase they thought might be good at auction. they are now better off by $17 million. the auction house is in shock. >> it is a beautiful, ornate. but it had been cleared out of a bungalow in northwest london. the family thought it was only worth about 800 pounds. the staff decided to have a closer look. >> when the auctioneers realize they had something rather special, they advertised it and thought, maybe it could go for more than $1 million. >> that 1 million pounds was a serious under

>> here is where the sewage goes. you can see, this is the edge of the jacobson's property. if the problem is here, it looks like it is in the next door neighbor's property. it would have to be downhill. this blockage would have to be downhill in order for it to cause a problem in the jacob's soson's property. >> what took so long to get action on this? when you get a violation notice, the property owner is responsible for proposing what the fix is. clearly, there was a problem. i think at this point we are being asked to uphold the issue, that you fixed it. there are penalties and fees attached because of the violations in the beginning. your claim, at this point, is that the problem is not fixed. >> our claim is that we were required to do work that was not necessary because the problem persists. the whole point of the process here has been to correct a sewer problem that would solve the nuisance problem. my point is, we spent a lot of time, and apparently the city has spent a lot of money, working on something that was not going to fix the problem. the problem was not on

. >> sewage plants should not be within 25 feet of people's homes, and the bayview is that way. that should move. it could move to the badlands of the poor property. i do not know that there is anything that we want to get rid of other than the power plants, sewage plants, asphalt plants, things that you do not want to grow. there are things that can move, but i think they need to stay in the city, but they can be different. >> unless we do something drastic and severe for this community, it is not going to survive. not only for us, but it is not going to survive for a lot of you folks that are moving in here. and >> district and has a reputation as one of the city's most dangerous areas. we asked if the notoriety is valid and inquire about the district's crime problem. >>, as an issue that happens everywhere citizens go. we tend to blame the folks who have to look at what surrounds them, what the environment has the right. the environment has been neglected. poor schools, poor health, and food, poor housing, so we have to take some response ability for that. >> the reason some

the second problem we have is basically your sewage system is full of bay water so if you do have a storm or a rain event coming, then you get back to the surface drainage problem that david talked about, the surface drainage won't have anywhere to go. obviously big problems with that. clearly if we would allow that to happen, we could easily experience huge flooding problems, back-ups in the areas of the city that are susceptible to this sort of intrusion. on the next slide, i want to talk a little bit about the way the system is designed. you have to -- you're going to have to allow for overflows because you are not going to be able to treat everything that comes at you. your weir levels have to be -- in the past, these things were designed a long time ago and assume -- there's an assumed sea level, so you would set your weirs at a point higher than that so any sort of high tide you wouldn't expect to have any sort of inflow into the system. but the weirs have to be set low enough that if you have a large inundaition, the drainage will happen in a manner that won't cause a back-up in th

rio vista spent some $33 million on a state-of-the-art sewage treatment plant, but as it turns out, it really didn't need one and it remains mostly unused. nevertheless, rio visittans have seen their water and sewer bills more than double to $135 a month, because the hundreds of homes that the sewage plant was designed to service were never built. >> we were $4 million in the red on the water and sewer bills. >> reporter: because rio vista is essentially broke, city hall is essentially closed to its citizens every friday. >> we've gone from close to 60 employees to 38. we don't know who else to cut. >> reporter: if after an american town needed to be economically stimulated, it wouldn't be hard to argue rio vista is it, but only rio vista, unlike 100 other bay area towns it that took hundreds of millions of dollars has never received money in federal stimulus funds and never spent a penny of the billions available. on the other hand, there is the city and county of san francisco, which got almost $1 billion in stimulus money. that is more than $1200 per san francisco resident, the most

there is good news, the pipe was carrying recycled water, not sewage. but the brake still caused damage to the landscape this morning. >> i was woken up by my neighbor that the backyard was flooding. there was a water main in the backyard that -- actually behind the house that broke and flooded the yards. >> san ramon says they plan to start repairing the pipe tomorrow and what caused the break. >>> 30 miles for 30 years of age. that was the goal for those who spread awareness about hiv. they started the ride at golden gate park. positive peddlers and their supporters biked through several neighborhoods that have been touched or greatly affected by aids. >> i really thought with the anniversary this year and this being the tenth year of the ride that it would be good to do something different and more meaningful to people in the city of san francisco. >> more than 100 cyclists participated in the 30-mile ride in san francisco that ended up at the national aids memorial grove. they started early but they had sun. they had sunshine. remember that. >> a li

the recycled water treatment system will not be treating raw sewage, but will be further treating or polishing secondary products of the oceanside treatment plant. this includes biological treatment to break down remaining organic matter. this will go to the proposed to recycle water treatment facility, where it will be further treated with reverse osmosis before being disinfected with ultraviolet light. it will produce water that will be used for irrigation. the proposed treatment scheme for this project is reverse osmosis. the filtration process that uses high-pressure to force water through a semi permeable membrane that would it pass water molecules through. this is considered the best available technology to reduce the level of salts and ammonia in the water. this high quality of recycled water would surpass current recycled water requirements. water supply challenges and drought have been major drivers for the implementation of recycled water drivers in the state. the state is committed to recycled water. this is supported by california state laws and policies. in 2009, the sta

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the kicker was in the floods of 2002 in the mission and she woke up in backed up sewage. twin peeks down the hill backed to the mission. see realized that we are relying too much on the city's storm water system. if you open up -- there is no reason to have the concrete and shoving the water in the storm water system if you open up the concrete the water drains naturally and you have gardens and get people not parking on the sidewalks. it's beautiful. all you have to leave is 48 inches for clearance for pedestrians and wheel chairs much the rest of the space was crying out for a touch of the neighborhood to make it theirs. >> is that it? >> thank you. liz lerma. sfgov. org there is a phone book where you type the last name and you can find their phone number it's called the street parks program much the sfpt. org has a link on their web page about street parks and what kinds of possible and what some of the resources are. it's quite a rebust set of possibilities. >> thanks very much. one last question? which school? monroe. uh-huh. >> no. yeah. it has to be a physical imp

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