Sewage Spill Plagues Bay Farm Lagoon

Dec 29, 2020
Source: 
Alameda Sun

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 power outages and backup generator failures in a matter of months can no longer be excused as an accident,” Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, told KQED’s Ted Goldberg, who first reported the spill. Baykeeper has pushed EBMUD for years to do more to prevent wastewater spills.

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