Two South Bay cities are facing more than $1 million in fines after sewage was found in some local creeks.
A federal judge ruled both Mountain View and Sunnyvale violated the Clean Water Act by allowing raw sewage to seep into creeks through their stormwater systems.
When San Francisco Baykeeper began testing water in Stevens Creek in Mountain View nearly nine years ago, the environmental watchdog group started sounding the alarm.
“Based on sampling that Baykeeper took from 2017 to 2019, based on sampling that the cities each took in 2023 and 2024, there were persistent high levels of bacteria and human fecal matter in their stormwater discharges throughout the system,” San Francisco Baykeeper managing attorney Eric Buescher said.
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