BK In The News: July 19, 2022
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.
But while millions of people were celebrating the downpour the week before Halloween, the rains also caused an environmental...
Blog Post: March 16, 2022
Fifty years ago, America’s waterways were choked with sewage and industrial runoff. Cities, corporations, and individuals treated bodies of water across the country, including San Francisco Bay, like dumps. Wastewater plants released raw sewage directly into the Bay and industrial facilities spewed...
BK In The News: April 13, 2021
Tree roots are being blamed for a 98,280-gallon sewage spill in Sausalito that went unnoticed for two weeks.
The overflow started on March 17 and went undetected because of heavy vegetation, according to the county. The spill was stopped on March 31.
The spill, between 71 and 67 Woodward Ave., was...
BK In The News: April 6, 2021
State water pollution officials have hit the city of Sunnyvale with $187,000 penalty after the city’s wastewater treatment plant spilled more than a quarter million gallons of partially treated sewage into San Francisco Bay last summer.
The spill occurred on July 29 when a 36-inch welded steel...
Blog Post: January 15, 2021
Two years ago, Baykeeper scientists discovered significant amounts of bacteria pollution from raw sewage in Stevens Creek, Calabazas Creek, Guadalupe Slough, and other South Bay waterways. Our sampling revealed E. coli at levels 50 times the legal limit. And the culprits were the cities of...
Press Release: January 5, 2021
Bacterial Pollution From Sewage Is Actionable Under Clean Water Act—In Case You Missed It
Oakland, CA—San Francisco Baykeeper, in February 2020, filed legal actions under the Clean Water Act against the cities of Sunnyvale and Mountain View. The cities both have antiquated and failing sewage and...
BK In The News: December 29, 2020
Residents living on local waterways have experienced two wastewater spills in the last four months. An unexpected power outage last Aug. 15, led to an equipment failure at the East Bay Municipal Utilities District’s (EBMUD) wastewater plant in Oakland... “Two large sewage spills resulting from...
BK In The News: December 23, 2020
State water quality regulators are investigating a large wastewater spill... "Two large sewage spills resulting from power outages and backup generator failures in a matter of months can no longer be excused as an accident," said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper,...
BK In The News: October 28, 2020
Baykeeper, a nonprofit environmental watchdog organization that monitors Bay Area water quality, and the Richmond-based West County Toxics Coalition sued the city in 2006 for, they said, “spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage every year,” according to a Baykeeper press release......
BK In The News: August 31, 2020
... The section of the estuary where the spill took place, the Oakland Inner Harbor, is already on a Clean Water Act watch list because it's contaminated with bacteria from human waste, notes Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper.