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An internal survey of employees found that the water district is disproportionately white and male compared to the county population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975894\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg\" alt=\"Gloved hands hold a yellow device with a digital display.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instrumentation intern Ibrahim Mohamed holds a temperature calibrator while conducting a maintenance check on a motor-bearing temperature sensor inside a Contra Costa Water District pumping plant at the Antioch Service Center in Oakley on Jan. 30, 2024. The maintenance check was performed as part of a CalMatters media tour of the facility, to highlight state investment in job training. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few decades ago, the district had a pipeline of skilled labor from a nearby paper and steel mill and from employees at the oil refineries near Concord and Martinez. The paper mill is gone now, the steel mill is \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/20/end-of-a-bay-area-era-pittsburgs-steel-mill-idles-amid-sale-to-japanese-company/\">about to close\u003c/a>, and many of the oil refineries are shifting to renewable energy. A job posting for an electrician that used to get 25 to 30 applications now sees less than half that, said Matthew Novak, the district’s maintenance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past six years, Jewish Vocational Service has received a series of state grants, totaling just shy of $3 million, to help create a pipeline of new talent for the water and wastewater industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the jobs come with benefits, such as health care and a pension, and the wages are good — with the lowest salary starting at around \u003ca href=\"https://www.baywork.org/careers/\">$65,000 a year\u003c/a> — these positions require years of specialized training that can be hard to come by, said Elizabeth Toups, a senior manager for the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohamed has about two years of experience, but the specific position he wants, known as an instrument technician, requires five years. The Contra Costa Water District has seven employees working in that role, and even if he had the experience, none of those positions are currently open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its reports to the state, Jewish Vocational Service said the number of job placements in the water and wastewater industry fell below expectations. Toups said many trainees ultimately find work in other fields that need specialized electricians, such as construction or electric vehicle manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not necessarily a loss, as far as we’re concerned,” she said. “Those people are getting jobs, and they’re getting that valuable experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s working in workforce training?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In other cases, however, the outcomes have been mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the Miguel Contreras Foundation, a nonprofit training partner of the Los Angeles AFL-CIO, received nearly $650,000 to train electric bus mechanics in the San Gabriel Valley. The largest participating employer, Proterra, hired 11 of the participants, but the company — once \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/09/what-led-to-ev-darling-proterras-bankruptcy/\">heralded as a leader\u003c/a> in electric vehicle technology — filed for bankruptcy not long after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same year, the nonprofit organization Equitable Food Initiative submitted a proposal to help “improve the wages and working conditions for more farmworkers in the state” while helping farms mitigate climate change. With a $600,000 state grant, the organization taught several farm operators how to reduce waste and increase recycling and composting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s helped the workers a little because the fields are cleaner, and we’ve learned how to recycle, how to separate plastic, cardboard, and aluminum,” said Benancio Estrada Martinez, the harvest manager at GoodFarms, which grows strawberries in Santa Maria. It was one of three businesses that participated in the Equitable Food Initiative’s High Road program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As large retailers face pressure to cut costs and reduce greenhouse gasses, they put that pressure on smaller suppliers like GoodFarms, said Peter O’Driscoll, the executive director of the Equitable Farm Initiative. He said this program provided workers and employers an opportunity to jointly decide how their industry could further cut emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By selling its cardboard to a local recycling company, the farm has made at least $7,000, money that the workers decide how to spend. Current ideas include a raffle, a barbecue, or splitting the proceeds evenly between the workers, said Gabriela Gamez, who oversees the project, known as the Green Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lunches, barbecues, things like that — I don’t think we’re going to pretend that’s a life-changing experience for the worker,” O’Driscoll said. Creating a system that yields more benefits for the workers would require reforming the industry. “In an agricultural (sector) that’s driven by low prices, the only place employers have to squeeze is workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the UCLA Labor Center released a state-funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Eval_FINAL-REPORT-2.pdf\">evaluation (PDF)\u003c/a> of the High Road programs, which primarily described what programs did without using any quantitative performance metrics. The team recently received another grant from the state and will release a second evaluation in stages over the next two years. The final piece of that evaluation will include a new method to assess success, one that doesn’t focus on metrics that workforce programs typically use, such as wages and employment rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mohamed, the most important outcome is getting a full-time job. The nearby East Bay Municipal Utilities District recently lowered the experience level needed for entry-level instrument technicians, and Mohamed said he’d consider applying there if an opportunity arises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Municipal Utilities District has a location in Walnut Creek, which is about 20 minutes from Pittsburg. “Maybe I work in Walnut Creek,” he said. Otherwise, he may need to move again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as I get my foot in the door, I’m going to do it,” he said. “If I need to move, I’m going to do it. I’m not going to hesitate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Financial support for this story was provided by the Smidt Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Mohamed’s case, the money went to Jewish Vocational Service, a Bay Area nonprofit organization that worked with local water treatment districts and community colleges to create the internship. The water district is responsible for paying the interns, who work part-time, by way of an intermediary and at a rate of $27 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the internship doesn’t cover all of his bills, Mohamed is committed to it and the future it could hold. In 2019, he moved from West Oakland to settle in Pittsburg, about 45 minutes away, in order to take night classes at Los Medanos College and intern with the Contra Costa Water District two days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the week, he works as a programmer for a Canadian company. He started working there while living in Sudan. “It pays better,” he said, speaking of his programming job, “but it’s not continuous.” Some projects pay as much as $3,000, he said, but other times, the company gives him no work at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need a stable job. I don’t like moving from place to place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The High Road programs vary by industry. In some cases, like Mohamed’s internship, the state is trying to expand access to jobs that are already considered “high road,” even if the supply of jobs is limited or highly technical. In other cases, the money is meant to transform “low road” jobs — those with low pay, poor working conditions, and few opportunities for advancement — into better ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The High Road program is an improvement compared to many other workforce programs, which often prioritize training people for jobs regardless of the quality, said Laura Dresser, the associate director of the High Road Strategy Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She helped coin the term “high road” and served as a consultant to California’s workforce programs in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have made similar efforts, she said California’s program is larger and more systematic. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has allocated most of the money and tried to focus on jobs that promote sustainability. High Road jobs are also a part of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/8.31.23-Career-Education-Executive-Order.pdf\">Master Plan for Career Education (PDF)\u003c/a>, to be released later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as the state faces a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">$38 billion budget deficit \u003c/a>for the 2024–25 fiscal year, Newsom recently proposed cutting roughly $100 million from workforce development, most of which comes from High Road Training Partnerships or related programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A job program that helps employers, too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state’s High Road program is designed to be a “partnership,” something that’s mutually beneficial for both employers and workers, Hickey said in the email. As Mohamed looks for a stable job, the water treatment industry is aging, with a higher percentage of \u003ca href=\"https://coeccc.net/california/2023/03/california-workforce-needs-in-the-water-wastewater-industry/\">skilled workers ready to retire\u003c/a> than in other professions across the state, according to a 2023 report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a “silver tsunami,” said Steven Currie, the workforce development program manager for the Contra Costa Water District. He said the district is also trying to diversify its staff. An internal survey of employees found that the water district is disproportionately white and male compared to the county population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975894\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg\" alt=\"Gloved hands hold a yellow device with a digital display.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/013024_Contra-Costa-Water_LE_CM_10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instrumentation intern Ibrahim Mohamed holds a temperature calibrator while conducting a maintenance check on a motor-bearing temperature sensor inside a Contra Costa Water District pumping plant at the Antioch Service Center in Oakley on Jan. 30, 2024. The maintenance check was performed as part of a CalMatters media tour of the facility, to highlight state investment in job training. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few decades ago, the district had a pipeline of skilled labor from a nearby paper and steel mill and from employees at the oil refineries near Concord and Martinez. The paper mill is gone now, the steel mill is \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/20/end-of-a-bay-area-era-pittsburgs-steel-mill-idles-amid-sale-to-japanese-company/\">about to close\u003c/a>, and many of the oil refineries are shifting to renewable energy. A job posting for an electrician that used to get 25 to 30 applications now sees less than half that, said Matthew Novak, the district’s maintenance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past six years, Jewish Vocational Service has received a series of state grants, totaling just shy of $3 million, to help create a pipeline of new talent for the water and wastewater industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the jobs come with benefits, such as health care and a pension, and the wages are good — with the lowest salary starting at around \u003ca href=\"https://www.baywork.org/careers/\">$65,000 a year\u003c/a> — these positions require years of specialized training that can be hard to come by, said Elizabeth Toups, a senior manager for the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohamed has about two years of experience, but the specific position he wants, known as an instrument technician, requires five years. The Contra Costa Water District has seven employees working in that role, and even if he had the experience, none of those positions are currently open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its reports to the state, Jewish Vocational Service said the number of job placements in the water and wastewater industry fell below expectations. Toups said many trainees ultimately find work in other fields that need specialized electricians, such as construction or electric vehicle manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not necessarily a loss, as far as we’re concerned,” she said. “Those people are getting jobs, and they’re getting that valuable experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s working in workforce training?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In other cases, however, the outcomes have been mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the Miguel Contreras Foundation, a nonprofit training partner of the Los Angeles AFL-CIO, received nearly $650,000 to train electric bus mechanics in the San Gabriel Valley. The largest participating employer, Proterra, hired 11 of the participants, but the company — once \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/09/what-led-to-ev-darling-proterras-bankruptcy/\">heralded as a leader\u003c/a> in electric vehicle technology — filed for bankruptcy not long after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same year, the nonprofit organization Equitable Food Initiative submitted a proposal to help “improve the wages and working conditions for more farmworkers in the state” while helping farms mitigate climate change. With a $600,000 state grant, the organization taught several farm operators how to reduce waste and increase recycling and composting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s helped the workers a little because the fields are cleaner, and we’ve learned how to recycle, how to separate plastic, cardboard, and aluminum,” said Benancio Estrada Martinez, the harvest manager at GoodFarms, which grows strawberries in Santa Maria. It was one of three businesses that participated in the Equitable Food Initiative’s High Road program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As large retailers face pressure to cut costs and reduce greenhouse gasses, they put that pressure on smaller suppliers like GoodFarms, said Peter O’Driscoll, the executive director of the Equitable Farm Initiative. He said this program provided workers and employers an opportunity to jointly decide how their industry could further cut emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By selling its cardboard to a local recycling company, the farm has made at least $7,000, money that the workers decide how to spend. Current ideas include a raffle, a barbecue, or splitting the proceeds evenly between the workers, said Gabriela Gamez, who oversees the project, known as the Green Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lunches, barbecues, things like that — I don’t think we’re going to pretend that’s a life-changing experience for the worker,” O’Driscoll said. Creating a system that yields more benefits for the workers would require reforming the industry. “In an agricultural (sector) that’s driven by low prices, the only place employers have to squeeze is workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the UCLA Labor Center released a state-funded \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Eval_FINAL-REPORT-2.pdf\">evaluation (PDF)\u003c/a> of the High Road programs, which primarily described what programs did without using any quantitative performance metrics. The team recently received another grant from the state and will release a second evaluation in stages over the next two years. The final piece of that evaluation will include a new method to assess success, one that doesn’t focus on metrics that workforce programs typically use, such as wages and employment rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mohamed, the most important outcome is getting a full-time job. The nearby East Bay Municipal Utilities District recently lowered the experience level needed for entry-level instrument technicians, and Mohamed said he’d consider applying there if an opportunity arises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Municipal Utilities District has a location in Walnut Creek, which is about 20 minutes from Pittsburg. “Maybe I work in Walnut Creek,” he said. Otherwise, he may need to move again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as I get my foot in the door, I’m going to do it,” he said. “If I need to move, I’m going to do it. I’m not going to hesitate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Financial support for this story was provided by the Smidt Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:45 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 5 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Oakland waterways during record-breaking rainfall on New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Castro Valley, residents reported sewage backing up into their drains and front yards.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eileen White, executive officer, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board\"]‘When we’re out of the reactive mode, I think it’ll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.’[/pullquote]“This is our worst nightmare,” said Michael Nelson, spokesperson for the Castro Valley Sanitary District. “Nobody wants to have to go stay in a hotel because their home is flooded with sewage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine atmospheric river storms that began dumping vast amounts of rain on the state in late December, and refused to let up until last weekend, overwhelmed aging sewer systems, forcing wastewater agencies in the nine-county Bay Area to collectively release some 62 million gallons of raw or only partially treated sewage into nearby waterways, according to initial estimates from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough sewage to fill about 94 Olympic swimming pools — more than three times the amount the board initially reported after the first round of storms in early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen White, the board’s executive officer, confirmed those figures on Thursday, but emphasized that they are “preliminary” and “not exactly precise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local wastewater agencies are required to immediately report the estimated volume of any unauthorized sewage discharges, she said, but noted that a more accurate accounting of the extent of the spillage wouldn’t be available until next month, when their final analyses are submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it definitely gives you the magnitude,” said White, who until recently oversaw wastewater operations at the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). “The intensity of the storms went beyond [most agencies’] storage and treatment capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a rather disgusting realization: We’re going to have to change how we get rid of all our poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The new normal’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You forget about it when you’re in drought for many years,” White said. “But then when you get to events that occurred over the last week, it’s a wake-up call. Because I think that’s going to be the new normal with climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of massive rainstorms, she notes, are expected to hit the region more frequently — and even increase in intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re out of the reactive mode,” she added, “I think it’ll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11938381 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A sketch of the municipal wastewater pathway\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simplified sketch of the basic path our sewage takes from toilet to treatment facility. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Usually — ideally — when you flush your toilet or wash your dishes, waste drains into sewer laterals, which are maintained by property owners. From there it flows into the city’s pipes, and is then diverted to \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/951ee3f1ff624b3f97f2983a5f5d0bcf\">the pipes of the local utility district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In much of the East Bay, the wastewater then passes through interceptors that act as gatekeepers: If the flow is below a certain volume, it continues to EBMUD’s main wastewater treatment facility, where it is cleaned and released into the bay. During some severe storms, excess water is also diverted to wet weather storage tanks, treated to basic standards, and then released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on New Year’s Eve — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1609513939376943111\">Oakland’s wettest day on record\u003c/a> — multiple points along that system were overwhelmed and failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unprecedented rainfall saturated the soil and seeped into old, cracked sewer laterals, adding to the volume of flow. As Castro Valley’s pipes filled to capacity, sewage backed up onto some people’s properties, spilling onto their yards — toilet paper and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A torrent of poop\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A mighty, mounting flood of poop and rainwater surged through much of EBMUD’s wastewater system. It percolated out of maintenance holes in Berkeley, Albany and Alameda, and overflowed at the utility’s south interceptor near the Oakland Coliseum, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/2022-12-31-1700-Sanitary-sewer-overflow-advisory-__-East-Bay-Municipal-Utility-District-1.pdf\">dumping some 4.7 million gallons into San Leandro Creek and the Oakland Estuary (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The huge influx of rainwater exceeded our ability to move and treat that wastewater,” said Andrea Pook, spokesperson for EBMUD. “It overflowed before it even got to our system, despite the activation of all of our wet-weather facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938382\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large drain pipe sticking out into a muddy creek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drainpipe leading to a very swollen San Leandro Creek in East Oakland on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spillage in the East Bay was hardly unique. Major spills occurred throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to White, from the water board, entire neighborhoods along San Francisco’s Folsom Street flooded with a mixture of stormwater and sewage. (Interestingly, San Francisco and Sacramento, which also experienced flooding, are the only two cities in California that have a single-pipe system for both wastewater and stormwater.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among a host of other soiled locations, sewage also flowed into scenic Half Moon Bay, when Pilarcitos Creek flooded the area’s wastewater treatment plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Serious health hazards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Raw sewage — even diluted with rainwater — poses serious health hazards. “When we talk about these sewage spills, we’re talking about people being exposed to pathogens, bacteria, viruses that can cause really serious illnesses,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, a regional environmental group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choksi-Chugh strongly recommends avoiding any contact with bay water or creek water — or even street puddles — for at least several days after a major storm. “Anyone who is walking down the street is possibly exposed to raw sewage when there’s an overflow in the street from a manhole,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Choksi-Chugh notes, lower-income communities of color often live in the most affected neighborhoods — the ones more susceptible to flooding and closer to the bayshore where the sewage ends up. She points out that EBMUD’s main treatment facility, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/50k-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spilled-into-estuary-after-power-outage-affects-ebmud-wastewater-plant/2345085/\">50,000 gallons of sewage spilled during a 2020 power outage\u003c/a>, is located in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s already a community that’s impacted really heavily by industrial pollution, and other environmental factors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938427\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a large wastewater treatment plant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of EBMUD’s wastewater treatment plant in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the broader environmental impact: The pathogens and bacteria in the sewage — even a large amount of treated sewage — can also sicken fish and other wildlife, Choksi-Chugh said. “It can cause low dissolved oxygen, which can lead to fish not being able to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was on full, fetid display during a heat wave in late August, when thousands of dead fish \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/28/thousands-of-dead-fish-found-at-oaklands-lake-merritt/\">washed up at Oakland’s Lake Merritt and nearby shorelines\u003c/a>. The fish die-off followed an uncontrolled algal bloom — known as a “red tide” event — likely caused by the discharge of too much sewage or fertilizer into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>So, how do we fix this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With bigger and more frequent storms predicted, most Bay Area wastewater agency officials interviewed for this story agreed on the need to strengthen the region’s aging infrastructure. The question is, which parts of it?[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"wastewater\"]EBMUD contends that it is pivotal to start at the source, and encourages property owners to fix old, cracked sewer laterals that connect their toilets to municipal pipes. Doing so would prevent less rainwater from entering the system, reducing the risk of it being overwhelmed. The utility says it has already seen a 22% decrease in flow since 2011, which it attributes to homeowners and cities fixing their pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we done yet? No,” said Pook. “But we’re definitely on our way to helping to decrease those flows into our wastewater system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities can also upgrade their pipes — the next segment of the wastewater system — to increase capacity. But that’s extremely expensive, and generally requires exceedingly unpopular rate hikes. For instance, replacing the relatively small sewer system in Castro Valley — a community of fewer than 65,000 people — would cost around $500 million, said Nelson, of the sanitary district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pipes are underground, they’re not sexy, they’re out of sight, out of mind,” the Baykeeper’s Choksi-Chugh said. “City councils just don’t tend to prioritize funding maintenance of these pipes and making sure that they’re upgraded and maintained properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while acknowledging the importance of these localized approaches, Choksi-Chugh also argues that more of the onus should be placed on the utilities, rather than their customers. Water districts, she says, need to overhaul their sorely outdated treatment plants — an intimidatingly expensive proposition, but one whose costs can be partially offset by new \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/\">state\u003c/a> infrastructure grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because then we wouldn’t be discharging all of this untreated sewage into the bay,” she said. “We would actually be capturing it all and recycling it. And it wouldn’t be having these kinds of impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hoping,” Choksi-Chugh added, “that this is a wake-up call for the wastewater industry and for the local government agencies to say we need to invest in better infrastructure around the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Lesley McClurg.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is our worst nightmare,” said Michael Nelson, spokesperson for the Castro Valley Sanitary District. “Nobody wants to have to go stay in a hotel because their home is flooded with sewage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine atmospheric river storms that began dumping vast amounts of rain on the state in late December, and refused to let up until last weekend, overwhelmed aging sewer systems, forcing wastewater agencies in the nine-county Bay Area to collectively release some 62 million gallons of raw or only partially treated sewage into nearby waterways, according to initial estimates from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough sewage to fill about 94 Olympic swimming pools — more than three times the amount the board initially reported after the first round of storms in early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen White, the board’s executive officer, confirmed those figures on Thursday, but emphasized that they are “preliminary” and “not exactly precise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local wastewater agencies are required to immediately report the estimated volume of any unauthorized sewage discharges, she said, but noted that a more accurate accounting of the extent of the spillage wouldn’t be available until next month, when their final analyses are submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it definitely gives you the magnitude,” said White, who until recently oversaw wastewater operations at the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). “The intensity of the storms went beyond [most agencies’] storage and treatment capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a rather disgusting realization: We’re going to have to change how we get rid of all our poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The new normal’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You forget about it when you’re in drought for many years,” White said. “But then when you get to events that occurred over the last week, it’s a wake-up call. Because I think that’s going to be the new normal with climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of massive rainstorms, she notes, are expected to hit the region more frequently — and even increase in intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re out of the reactive mode,” she added, “I think it’ll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11938381 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A sketch of the municipal wastewater pathway\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simplified sketch of the basic path our sewage takes from toilet to treatment facility. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Usually — ideally — when you flush your toilet or wash your dishes, waste drains into sewer laterals, which are maintained by property owners. From there it flows into the city’s pipes, and is then diverted to \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/951ee3f1ff624b3f97f2983a5f5d0bcf\">the pipes of the local utility district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In much of the East Bay, the wastewater then passes through interceptors that act as gatekeepers: If the flow is below a certain volume, it continues to EBMUD’s main wastewater treatment facility, where it is cleaned and released into the bay. During some severe storms, excess water is also diverted to wet weather storage tanks, treated to basic standards, and then released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on New Year’s Eve — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1609513939376943111\">Oakland’s wettest day on record\u003c/a> — multiple points along that system were overwhelmed and failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unprecedented rainfall saturated the soil and seeped into old, cracked sewer laterals, adding to the volume of flow. As Castro Valley’s pipes filled to capacity, sewage backed up onto some people’s properties, spilling onto their yards — toilet paper and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A torrent of poop\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A mighty, mounting flood of poop and rainwater surged through much of EBMUD’s wastewater system. It percolated out of maintenance holes in Berkeley, Albany and Alameda, and overflowed at the utility’s south interceptor near the Oakland Coliseum, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/2022-12-31-1700-Sanitary-sewer-overflow-advisory-__-East-Bay-Municipal-Utility-District-1.pdf\">dumping some 4.7 million gallons into San Leandro Creek and the Oakland Estuary (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The huge influx of rainwater exceeded our ability to move and treat that wastewater,” said Andrea Pook, spokesperson for EBMUD. “It overflowed before it even got to our system, despite the activation of all of our wet-weather facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938382\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large drain pipe sticking out into a muddy creek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drainpipe leading to a very swollen San Leandro Creek in East Oakland on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spillage in the East Bay was hardly unique. Major spills occurred throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to White, from the water board, entire neighborhoods along San Francisco’s Folsom Street flooded with a mixture of stormwater and sewage. (Interestingly, San Francisco and Sacramento, which also experienced flooding, are the only two cities in California that have a single-pipe system for both wastewater and stormwater.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among a host of other soiled locations, sewage also flowed into scenic Half Moon Bay, when Pilarcitos Creek flooded the area’s wastewater treatment plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Serious health hazards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Raw sewage — even diluted with rainwater — poses serious health hazards. “When we talk about these sewage spills, we’re talking about people being exposed to pathogens, bacteria, viruses that can cause really serious illnesses,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, a regional environmental group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choksi-Chugh strongly recommends avoiding any contact with bay water or creek water — or even street puddles — for at least several days after a major storm. “Anyone who is walking down the street is possibly exposed to raw sewage when there’s an overflow in the street from a manhole,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Choksi-Chugh notes, lower-income communities of color often live in the most affected neighborhoods — the ones more susceptible to flooding and closer to the bayshore where the sewage ends up. She points out that EBMUD’s main treatment facility, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/50k-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spilled-into-estuary-after-power-outage-affects-ebmud-wastewater-plant/2345085/\">50,000 gallons of sewage spilled during a 2020 power outage\u003c/a>, is located in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s already a community that’s impacted really heavily by industrial pollution, and other environmental factors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938427\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a large wastewater treatment plant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of EBMUD’s wastewater treatment plant in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the broader environmental impact: The pathogens and bacteria in the sewage — even a large amount of treated sewage — can also sicken fish and other wildlife, Choksi-Chugh said. “It can cause low dissolved oxygen, which can lead to fish not being able to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was on full, fetid display during a heat wave in late August, when thousands of dead fish \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/28/thousands-of-dead-fish-found-at-oaklands-lake-merritt/\">washed up at Oakland’s Lake Merritt and nearby shorelines\u003c/a>. The fish die-off followed an uncontrolled algal bloom — known as a “red tide” event — likely caused by the discharge of too much sewage or fertilizer into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>So, how do we fix this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With bigger and more frequent storms predicted, most Bay Area wastewater agency officials interviewed for this story agreed on the need to strengthen the region’s aging infrastructure. The question is, which parts of it?\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>EBMUD contends that it is pivotal to start at the source, and encourages property owners to fix old, cracked sewer laterals that connect their toilets to municipal pipes. Doing so would prevent less rainwater from entering the system, reducing the risk of it being overwhelmed. The utility says it has already seen a 22% decrease in flow since 2011, which it attributes to homeowners and cities fixing their pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we done yet? No,” said Pook. “But we’re definitely on our way to helping to decrease those flows into our wastewater system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities can also upgrade their pipes — the next segment of the wastewater system — to increase capacity. But that’s extremely expensive, and generally requires exceedingly unpopular rate hikes. For instance, replacing the relatively small sewer system in Castro Valley — a community of fewer than 65,000 people — would cost around $500 million, said Nelson, of the sanitary district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pipes are underground, they’re not sexy, they’re out of sight, out of mind,” the Baykeeper’s Choksi-Chugh said. “City councils just don’t tend to prioritize funding maintenance of these pipes and making sure that they’re upgraded and maintained properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while acknowledging the importance of these localized approaches, Choksi-Chugh also argues that more of the onus should be placed on the utilities, rather than their customers. Water districts, she says, need to overhaul their sorely outdated treatment plants — an intimidatingly expensive proposition, but one whose costs can be partially offset by new \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/\">state\u003c/a> infrastructure grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because then we wouldn’t be discharging all of this untreated sewage into the bay,” she said. “We would actually be capturing it all and recycling it. And it wouldn’t be having these kinds of impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hoping,” Choksi-Chugh added, “that this is a wake-up call for the wastewater industry and for the local government agencies to say we need to invest in better infrastructure around the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Lesley McClurg.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The board narrowly rejected that target, amid concerns over lost water sales, but said it would revisit upping the goal in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBMUD’s seven reservoirs are currently 71% full and not expected to fully replenish when snow melts off the Sierra Nevada into the Mokelumne River Watershed, the agency said, referring to the primary source of drinking water for its roughly 1.4 million customers in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The excessive-use penalty will only be charged to households that use more than 1,646 gallons per day, and the board said it will affect fewer than 2% of its customers. After one warning, households will be charged $2 for every 748 gallons they use above the penalty threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, outdoor watering is now limited to three times per week, while hosing down sidewalks and driveways is prohibited. 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Two days later, EBMUD revised up its estimate to 97,000 gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1340122131091214336?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pook said the agency is trying to find out what led to the outage, but that it was not caused by a problem with Alameda Municipal Power, which supplies electricity to the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the sewage seeped out of storm drains as it made its way west toward the lagoon, prompting odor complaints from some Harbor Bay residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the horrible rotten egg smell now?” one resident asked on the neighborhood social network Nextdoor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pook said crews were called out to clean the wastewater from the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lagoon where the sewage emptied into has gates that blocked the sludge from entering the San Francisco Bay, according to EBMUD and state water regulators. 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"content": "\u003cp>Commuters on Interstate Highway 280 see it to the west every day. Rolling green hills carpeted with trees, stunning cloud formations along the ridge line, and down below, sparkling blue reservoirs. This green stretches all the way from Pacifica to Highway 84. First you ask, “What IS that?” Then you ask, “How do I get IN there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a watershed for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=199\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission\u003c/a>, and most of it is not open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors, led by Supervisor John Avalos, have started talking about expanding access to more trails. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=51976\" target=\"_blank\">agenda item\u003c/a>, which is not expected to lead to an immediate vote, comes at the prompting of a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.openthewatershed.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Open the SF Watershed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/198926725\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 31 miles of public trails between Highway 280 and the reservoirs. The \u003ca href=\"https://parks.smcgov.org/crystal-springs-regional-trail\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Springs Regional Trail\u003c/a> system is paved and popular -- 325,000 people visit a year. 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It’s really the heart of the Northern Peninsula’s wilderness area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's put together a video with helpful visuals about what Open the SF Watershed wants to see happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeJUmANEAiU]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krenz is a board member with the \u003ca href=\"www.ltcwd.org\" target=\"_blank\">Los Trancos County Water District\u003c/a> on the Peninsula, as well as with \u003ca href=\"http://www.svmtb.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Mountain Bikers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants the land west of the reservoirs opened to hikers, bikers and equestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For hiking, it’s going to be beautiful, but it also lends itself to mountain biking because it’s so big,\" Krenz says. \"People will definitely hike it, but the distances really lend themselves to mountain bikes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, \"It’s one of the most spectacular coastlines that exists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Coyne agrees. He writes about mountain biking for the San Francisco Chronicle. One of Coyne’s headlines last year: “\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/bicycle/2014/10/04/the-best-bay-area-bike-trails-youre-not-allowed-to-ride/\" target=\"_blank\">The Best Bay Area bike trails you’re not allowed to ride.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyne insists, \"For public land, there should be a presumption in favor of public access,\" adding there are already established trails and roads on the land in question. \"We’re not requesting that any new trails or roads be built. It’s all already there. So really it’s a matter of just physically opening the gates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10474112\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10474112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt='The Spring Valley Water Company owned and operated the watershed until 1930. Brian Coyne of Open the SF Watershed laments, \"When the land was owned by a private company, you were allowed in, but when it was purchased by a public agency, the public was kicked out.\"' width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Spring Valley Water Company owned and operated the watershed until 1930. Brian Coyne of Open the SF Watershed laments, \"When the land was owned by a private company, you were allowed in, but when it was purchased by a public agency, the public was kicked out.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s not exactly that simple. Tim Ramirez manages the Crystal Springs watershed for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. He says the public has no idea of the complex of bureaucracies operating behind those gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just look at hiking trails,\" Ramirez says. \"They look at where the trail goes. They don’t look at who owns the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the PUC that regulates the watershed. So do agencies at every level: city, county, state and federal. It's even part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?mode=all&code=USA+42\" target=\"_blank\">UNESCO Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve\u003c/a>. A lot of protected plants and animals call this place home, including the marbled murrelet, the fountain thistle and Marin Dwarf Flax. Ramirez says \u003cem>nothing \u003c/em>happens here without a lot of conversation. \"All these folks are going to have an opportunity to say, 'Yes, it’s fine,' or 'No, it’s not,' or 'These are the conditions under which you may.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez says the PUC actually has a 15-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=756\" target=\"_blank\">plan in place\u003c/a> to expand public access. By the end of next year, he hopes to provide unrestricted access to the \u003ca href=\"http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=147\" target=\"_blank\">Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail\u003c/a>, which runs parallel to the Crystal Springs Trail, but is only available to see with a docent. Thanks to a $1 million grant from the \u003ca href=\"http://scc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Coastal Conservancy\u003c/a>, Ramirez hopes to begin work next year on a new six-mile trail from Highway 92 to the redwood groves of \u003ca href=\"http://www.parksconservancy.org/visit/park-sites/phleger-estate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Phleger Estate\u003c/a>, a Golden Gate National Recreation Area property north of Woodside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10474106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10474106 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt='\"There’s a lot of details that need to be sorted out,\" says Watershed Manager Tim Ramirez of the SF PUC, \"but the intention is to provide a little less restriction and a little more access.\"' width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-320x320.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"There’s a lot of details that need to be sorted out,\" says Watershed Manager Tim Ramirez of the SF PUC, \"but the intention is to provide a little less restriction and a little more access.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The folks with Open the SF Watershed would prefer the peninsula follow the wide-open access model of \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/188/Visiting-Watershed-Lands\" target=\"_blank\">the Marin Municipal Water District\u003c/a>. Most of Marin’s 22,000 acres are open. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/357/Mt-Tamalpais-Visitor-Use-Census-and-Surv\" target=\"_blank\">1.8 million people\u003c/a> visit each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other utilities are more conservative. Like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebmud.com/recreation/east-bay-trails\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Municipal Utility District\u003c/a>. EBMUD Watershed manager Scott Hill gets 50,000 visitors a year and they all have to apply for permits. \"I don’t think that it’s appropriate to open up all areas of the watershed to public access.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill says inviting more people in boosts all kinds of risks: fires, poaching, disturbing sensitive habitat and more. Those concerns are shared by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Loma Prieta Chapter\u003c/a> of the Sierra Club and the\u003ca href=\"http://www.greenfoothills.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Committee for Green Foothills.\u003c/a> Lennie Roberts of the committee sees no reason to change the status quo on the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of trails already,\" Roberts says. \"I think it would be great if the PUC expanded the docent program [on the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail] to seven days a week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Hill’s reservations, he sees a big benefit to public access, too. People who get to enjoy the watershed want to protect it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You do develop this constituency that has a proprietary attitude in the watershed and a sense of stewardship,\" Hill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bay Area utilities started buying up land decades ago, open space was everywhere. Now, the watersheds are some of the biggest islands of green in the region -- visual relief in a sea of concrete and steel as the peninsula becomes more crowded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10474104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14688_trees-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10474104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14688_trees-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"That carpet of lush trees are not native to the watershed! Tim Ramirez of the SF PUC says they were planted about 150 years ago by ranchers, often as wind breaks. What would this place look like without human intervention? Grassland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14688_trees-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14688_trees-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14688_trees-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14688_trees-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14688_trees-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14688_trees-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14688_trees-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">That carpet of lush trees is not native to the watershed! Tim Ramirez of the SF PUC says they were planted about 150 years ago by ranchers, often as wind breaks. What would this place look like without human intervention? Grassland. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Commuters on Interstate Highway 280 see it to the west every day. Rolling green hills carpeted with trees, stunning cloud formations along the ridge line, and down below, sparkling blue reservoirs. This green stretches all the way from Pacifica to Highway 84. First you ask, “What IS that?” Then you ask, “How do I get IN there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a watershed for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=199\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission\u003c/a>, and most of it is not open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors, led by Supervisor John Avalos, have started talking about expanding access to more trails. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=51976\" target=\"_blank\">agenda item\u003c/a>, which is not expected to lead to an immediate vote, comes at the prompting of a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.openthewatershed.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Open the SF Watershed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/198926725&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/198926725'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 31 miles of public trails between Highway 280 and the reservoirs. The \u003ca href=\"https://parks.smcgov.org/crystal-springs-regional-trail\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Springs Regional Trail\u003c/a> system is paved and popular -- 325,000 people visit a year. But Open the SF Watershed wants more, as group member Charlie Krenz explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The watershed is massive,\" Krenz says. \"It’s 23,000 acres. It’s really the heart of the Northern Peninsula’s wilderness area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's put together a video with helpful visuals about what Open the SF Watershed wants to see happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/aeJUmANEAiU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/aeJUmANEAiU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krenz is a board member with the \u003ca href=\"www.ltcwd.org\" target=\"_blank\">Los Trancos County Water District\u003c/a> on the Peninsula, as well as with \u003ca href=\"http://www.svmtb.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Mountain Bikers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants the land west of the reservoirs opened to hikers, bikers and equestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For hiking, it’s going to be beautiful, but it also lends itself to mountain biking because it’s so big,\" Krenz says. \"People will definitely hike it, but the distances really lend themselves to mountain bikes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, \"It’s one of the most spectacular coastlines that exists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Coyne agrees. He writes about mountain biking for the San Francisco Chronicle. One of Coyne’s headlines last year: “\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/bicycle/2014/10/04/the-best-bay-area-bike-trails-youre-not-allowed-to-ride/\" target=\"_blank\">The Best Bay Area bike trails you’re not allowed to ride.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyne insists, \"For public land, there should be a presumption in favor of public access,\" adding there are already established trails and roads on the land in question. \"We’re not requesting that any new trails or roads be built. It’s all already there. So really it’s a matter of just physically opening the gates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10474112\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10474112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt='The Spring Valley Water Company owned and operated the watershed until 1930. Brian Coyne of Open the SF Watershed laments, \"When the land was owned by a private company, you were allowed in, but when it was purchased by a public agency, the public was kicked out.\"' width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14689_watershed-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Spring Valley Water Company owned and operated the watershed until 1930. Brian Coyne of Open the SF Watershed laments, \"When the land was owned by a private company, you were allowed in, but when it was purchased by a public agency, the public was kicked out.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s not exactly that simple. Tim Ramirez manages the Crystal Springs watershed for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. He says the public has no idea of the complex of bureaucracies operating behind those gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just look at hiking trails,\" Ramirez says. \"They look at where the trail goes. They don’t look at who owns the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the PUC that regulates the watershed. So do agencies at every level: city, county, state and federal. It's even part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?mode=all&code=USA+42\" target=\"_blank\">UNESCO Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve\u003c/a>. A lot of protected plants and animals call this place home, including the marbled murrelet, the fountain thistle and Marin Dwarf Flax. Ramirez says \u003cem>nothing \u003c/em>happens here without a lot of conversation. \"All these folks are going to have an opportunity to say, 'Yes, it’s fine,' or 'No, it’s not,' or 'These are the conditions under which you may.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez says the PUC actually has a 15-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=756\" target=\"_blank\">plan in place\u003c/a> to expand public access. By the end of next year, he hopes to provide unrestricted access to the \u003ca href=\"http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=147\" target=\"_blank\">Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail\u003c/a>, which runs parallel to the Crystal Springs Trail, but is only available to see with a docent. Thanks to a $1 million grant from the \u003ca href=\"http://scc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Coastal Conservancy\u003c/a>, Ramirez hopes to begin work next year on a new six-mile trail from Highway 92 to the redwood groves of \u003ca href=\"http://www.parksconservancy.org/visit/park-sites/phleger-estate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Phleger Estate\u003c/a>, a Golden Gate National Recreation Area property north of Woodside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10474106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10474106 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt='\"There’s a lot of details that need to be sorted out,\" says Watershed Manager Tim Ramirez of the SF PUC, \"but the intention is to provide a little less restriction and a little more access.\"' width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-320x320.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14686_timramirez-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"There’s a lot of details that need to be sorted out,\" says Watershed Manager Tim Ramirez of the SF PUC, \"but the intention is to provide a little less restriction and a little more access.\" \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The folks with Open the SF Watershed would prefer the peninsula follow the wide-open access model of \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/188/Visiting-Watershed-Lands\" target=\"_blank\">the Marin Municipal Water District\u003c/a>. Most of Marin’s 22,000 acres are open. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/357/Mt-Tamalpais-Visitor-Use-Census-and-Surv\" target=\"_blank\">1.8 million people\u003c/a> visit each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other utilities are more conservative. Like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebmud.com/recreation/east-bay-trails\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Municipal Utility District\u003c/a>. EBMUD Watershed manager Scott Hill gets 50,000 visitors a year and they all have to apply for permits. \"I don’t think that it’s appropriate to open up all areas of the watershed to public access.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill says inviting more people in boosts all kinds of risks: fires, poaching, disturbing sensitive habitat and more. Those concerns are shared by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Loma Prieta Chapter\u003c/a> of the Sierra Club and the\u003ca href=\"http://www.greenfoothills.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Committee for Green Foothills.\u003c/a> Lennie Roberts of the committee sees no reason to change the status quo on the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of trails already,\" Roberts says. \"I think it would be great if the PUC expanded the docent program [on the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail] to seven days a week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Hill’s reservations, he sees a big benefit to public access, too. People who get to enjoy the watershed want to protect it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You do develop this constituency that has a proprietary attitude in the watershed and a sense of stewardship,\" Hill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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