In San Francisco, there are 3 sewage treatment facilities. There is the North Point Wet Weather Facility located at Bay Street and the Embarcadero. It was built in 1951 and it is important to note that this facility is only active during wet weather, which I find is very interesting since it barley rains in SF. There is also the Oceanside Treatment Plant which was built in 1993. it receives about 20% of the cities flows. The last one is the Southeast Treatment Plant. It was built in 1952 and treats the other 80% of the cities flows. Needless to say, the Southeast Treatment Plant is much larger than the others and does the bulk of the cities wage work for SF residents.
After reading up on the information about environmental injustice, the only thing, and most recent example of this, would be the Flint Michigan water crisis. The United States has a long way to go in terms of equality. This country was basically founded on racism and one can find the evidence even through legislation throughout the years. In terms of Flint, one also has to think that if the water were to be found toxic in a white area, the issue would have been resolved immediately. Since Flint happens to be predominantly black, they still to this day don't have clean water. This is absolutely unacceptable to me. Within the black community, there is a distrust for the government and health officials, and who can blame them? They have been lied to, fooled and mistreated so many times over the years that now it is a cultural thing within the community. The only way to fix this is over a long time while bridging the gap of equality.
Hi Jordan,
ReplyDeleteCan you believe that there are three sewage facilities in San Francisco? It makes you wonder how many their are in the whole country..
Hi Jordan,
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting that one only works when it rains. You would think using it would take more strain off of the other treatment facilities.