San Francisco will have to spend $14 billion
filtering nutrients from human POOP to
stop growth of huge algae bloom blamed
for killing thousands of fish in city's
famed bay
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Stacy Liberatore
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
9/7/2022 8:29:25 AM
California officials say it will cost $14 billion to upgrade aging wastewater facilities that are dumping nutrients from treated human sewage into San Francisco Bay, which are feeding a giant algae bloom that has lingered for more than two months and killed tens of thousands of fish. The algae bloom, which appeared in late July, has grown to an immense size because of the tons of nutrients from urine and feces of the eight million Bay Area residents that is released into the waters daily—one plant alone dumps 85 million gallons a day that contains 5.5 tons of nitrogen. Scientists say the bloom was triggered by climate change,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 9/7/2022 8:37:46 AM (No. 1270714)
I left my poop - - in San Fwancisco.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/7/2022 8:38:47 AM (No. 1270716)
Fruits, nuts, and blooming idiots.
Long overdue maintenance? You mean all the green money malinvested could have been spent elsewhere?
As observed, green and climate change is a politician’s dream: results from my spending won’t manifest until after I’m gone and anything bad that manifests while I’m here isn’t my fault.
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San Franciscans get what they elected.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
southernboy 9/7/2022 8:41:48 AM (No. 1270721)
Street run-off from human poop on the sidewalks and in the gutters couldn't be part of the problem, could it?
Aren't these the same "communities" who voted to shut off water to the farmers and flush fresh water into the ocean to save the minnows...and the same "communities" who voted to breach the power-generating dams to "save the salmon?" But their backyards are filled with their sewage killing the fish in their bay!
Liberals!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 9/7/2022 8:43:36 AM (No. 1270724)
The world has gone MAD. I’m confused. I thought “The Climate” (aka The Environment) is sacred and humans are subservient. But according to this, humans can wreck the environment and just pay for cleanup.
On a side note, I found Paul Harvey’s “If I were the Devil” from 1965. It’s short. Google and read.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/7/2022 8:43:38 AM (No. 1270725)
Just pump it back on the downtown streets. Their citizens can't tell the difference. Or store it in Pelosi's ice cream freezer - what comes out of her mouth is crap to begin with.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
padiva 9/7/2022 8:47:29 AM (No. 1270730)
Sounds like a great employment opportunity.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/7/2022 8:49:08 AM (No. 1270735)
Here's a thought, take the money that was stolen for climate change and use it to upgrade your wastewater facilities, which are obviously overburdened by the millions of additional people who moved to California to enjoy a better life. Florida had a similar problem because they released water from the Evergades into the Gulf and were not able to blame their dumb mistake on climate change.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 9/7/2022 8:56:37 AM (No. 1270744)
Must be climate change. Couldn’t be effluvia from 8 million residents running through stp’s not equipped to remove nitrogen.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/7/2022 8:57:58 AM (No. 1270745)
Tampa has a similar problem with algae blooms, but Florida officials are blaming farm runoffs.
I remember a 'future Earth' book where all human waste was collected. There were certain mineral shortages, and it turned out that human waste was still a good source for those minerals. Don't be surprised if we see more of this.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/7/2022 9:08:07 AM (No. 1270758)
Waiting for the environmental impact report on so many issues. Recycling EV batteries, electric power plant capabilities, free needle programs, free crack pipe give away. But hey if you want to build a storage shed in the desert you need an environmental impact report that needs to be approved first. That will cost $100,000 min and take years. But hey we are pro growth and pro low cost construction. Oh and you will have to put solar panels on that too.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 9/7/2022 9:08:57 AM (No. 1270760)
Poor or nonexistent human sanitation was the reason disease, plagues and death ran rife thru Europe until only 200 tears ago. People routinely dumped their chamber pots out the window onto the streets every morning. It is one on the reasons the man always walked on the outer street side of the sidewalk when walking a woman down the street.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
VietVet68 9/7/2022 9:12:53 AM (No. 1270765)
A stark reminder of what a liberal utopia actually looks like. Voting the democrats out will be the equivalent of finally wiping poop off your shoe.
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Another reason Pelosi wants to move to Italy. Democrats can’t do anything right.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/7/2022 9:37:15 AM (No. 1270788)
At $14 billion and if 140,000 fish die, that's $100,000 per fish.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/7/2022 9:43:42 AM (No. 1270795)
Sounds to me like instead of treating the sewage, they are pumping it out into the bay.
It's really stupid to be outlawing fossil powered cars while pumping effluent into the water ways.
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Sounds like there’s something wrong with San Frankenstein rear ends such that they leak.
(Quick correct did the above, and I left it.)
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Grateful 9/7/2022 9:56:15 AM (No. 1270813)
San Francisco has officially gone to crap!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/7/2022 10:18:05 AM (No. 1270838)
Slick Newsome might have to spend some of that $100 billion surplus, but I'm sure he has a campaign contributor he can gift with the contract. It won't get done right, and it will take years with over-runs, but Slick will be President by then and Mz. Nanzi will either be Ambassador to Italy or living on the property she bought in Florida.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 9/7/2022 10:18:28 AM (No. 1270840)
Mean while other less progressive cities in CA are Recycling wastewater to add to their water supplies. Sounds like SF isn't so progressive after all.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 9/7/2022 10:18:48 AM (No. 1270841)
In first world countries, our feces goes into sanitary sewers and then to sewage treatment plants. In third world cities, like San Francisco, feces is dumped on the streets and sidewalks and then enters the storm drainage system right to the bay.
Back to the 1800s in San Fran, courtesy of the leftist crazies......and it's all "Eco-green", RIGHT?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou 9/7/2022 10:23:37 AM (No. 1270848)
Get the money from Nancy's personal stash, surely she'd like to help.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Citoyen 9/7/2022 10:48:06 AM (No. 1270867)
A quick perusal of this article revealed that the waste is not coming from San Francisco but from other cities on the bay. San Francisco’s sewage, after treatment, is piped to the Pacific Ocean. All surface waste, including that on the streets and sidewalks end up in the huge treatment plant on the ocean side of the city. So sorry, the jokes about poop on SF’s streets don’t apply here.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mifla 9/7/2022 10:53:49 AM (No. 1270877)
Model for the rest of the country? Seriously? No thanks.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 9/7/2022 10:54:40 AM (No. 1270878)
Re #23. If the waste is not from SF, why must SF have to spend 8 bill or so
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
ireneR 9/7/2022 11:06:58 AM (No. 1270883)
I'm sure that hosing the feces off the sidewalks and streets and into the storm sewers that do not get treated, simply dumped in the bay, hasn't impacted the problem.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mean Gene 9/7/2022 11:08:13 AM (No. 1270884)
When it rains the untreated poop flows right into the Bay thru the streets.
Algae blooms are the next step on this ecological disaster of letting people live on the streets.
Massive Dark Ages disease outbreaks will be next.
But, cleaning up the homeless off the streets would be un-cool.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 9/7/2022 11:15:57 AM (No. 1270889)
So what I glean from the article is that the fact that people are pooping in the streets and they have no rain to wash it into the sewers and thereby contaminate the Bay is a good thing and the Lord's light has shone on San Francisco.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 9/7/2022 11:25:01 AM (No. 1270898)
Apparently water treatment is the new money grab. Btw, Jackson MS has water again. The Army Corp of Engineers showed up and the pumps just needed turned back on. The info is out there, but it’s hard to find. I don’t believe this 14 super large is a real number. Cali just wants money.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/7/2022 11:35:18 AM (No. 1270906)
14 BILLION ?
Easy They'll get the feds to print it.
Trillion here, trillion there ... before you know it you're talking real money
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Chicagoan 9/7/2022 11:38:26 AM (No. 1270908)
Of course it's climate change. Everything negative is either climate change or racism, sometimes both.
Unfortunately for the Lefties, neither "climate change" nor "racist" has any meaning anymore.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
hershey 9/7/2022 12:02:01 PM (No. 1270923)
Yep, triggered by climate change...doesn't have anything to do with decisions by democraps about sewage...wonder why they didn't blame it on Trump...
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
danu 9/7/2022 12:14:24 PM (No. 1270931)
these san freakcisco 'greens' are sanctimonious frauds.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
danu 9/7/2022 12:41:46 PM (No. 1270940)
re#23
--the whore of babylon rules san fraudcisco-and purports to control all of ca, and the borders... and dc-->n has her 1 good eye on italy.
many observe that it is nazi herself who squanders everyone's $$ --NOT for infrastructure, health and safety needs--but for terrorising
the country w/ private militias, walls, and bodyguards, for herself, election fraud, and ' get out of jail free cards' for her scandalous
family, vindictive horrors in other innocent states [such as taos compound, rancho epstein in nm, ] demoncrap vote fraud in all 50
states, plus the dc cesspit , exports her evildoing and her facha thugs wherever she gets a mansion, and burns the rest to the ground
using paid gangs of auntiefrou-frouz.
no monsieur! do not excuse madame mao-mao and her deep pocketed sponsor she-she.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/7/2022 12:52:35 PM (No. 1270956)
Proving everything Leftists TOUCH TURNS TO SCHIFFT!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Birddog 9/7/2022 4:49:52 PM (No. 1271143)
How many tons of nitrogen does the bay area IMPORT every year for both it's tech industries and it's "green" spaces as fertilizer?(Making nitrogen from poop isn't rocket science)
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Long-overdue repairs and upgrades to wastewater treatment plants would cost billions of dollars and cause local water bills to triple, so instead they blame Climate Change. Works every time. Don't forget to recycle, don't mind the human waste on the sidewalks, and please don't charge your electric car until further notice because it's hot out.