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This just in, from Baykeeper:

Heavy Rains Trigger Sewer System Breakdowns
Heavy storms this week have caused numerous sewage spills and treatment facility overflows that are polluting waterways and closing beaches – and reports are still coming in from across the region.
So far, 235,361 gallons have discharged from 23 sewage system overflows, along with 90 million gallons [...]

Tags: beach pollution, Environment, pollution, San Francisco Bay, sewage, storms

This crossed my inbox this morning:
It’s clear: The Bay isn’t as murky
After more than a century of being murky from enough Gold Rush-era mining sediment to fill 60 Superdomes, researchers say, the Bay suddenly crossed a profound threshold 10 years ago and became much clearer.
“The conditions in the water “… changed dramatically,” said Dave Schoellhamer, [...]

Tags: Environment, pollution, San Francisco Bay

Unbefreakinglievable.
Sewage spills foul San Francisco Bay over and over
SAN FRANCISCO—Last weekend, 890,000 gallons of raw sewage and stormwater spilled into San Francisco Bay from an overloaded World War II-era treatment plant. Five days earlier, a ruptured pipe released 400,000 gallons of filth into the bay.
And those were just the big spills the public heard about.
On [...]

Tags: Environment, Fishing, pollution, San Francisco Bay, sewage