City reports its fewest sewage spills in decade
San Diego Union-Tribune
02/25/2010
SAN DIEGO: San Diego posted its best sewage-spill figures of the decade last year, Mayor Jerry Sanders said yesterday.
The city reported 38 spills last year, down from 365 in 2000 and 62 in 2008.
San Diego Baykeeper — now Coastkeeper — and the Surfrider Foundation
sued the city in 2001 for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act
after a 34 million-gallon sewage spill polluted the San Diego River and
local beaches.
San Diego officials responded with a spill-reduction program that
includes cleaning the city’s entire 3,000-mile sewage system, snaking
cameras into many of the oldest pipes to look for trouble spots and
tripling the amount of pipe replaced.
