Close to 1 million gallons of sewage spilled into San Francisco Bay
SAN JOSE – An employee released 952,000 gallons of partially treated sewage – enough to fill 50 backyard swimming pools – by accident into the San Francisco Bay but the spill didn’t cause any harm to public health or the environment, officials said.
The employee at San Jose’s Alviso wastewater treatment plant turned the wrong valve Wednesday, releasing the partially treated water, the San Jose Mercury News reported Saturday.
Normally water from the toilets, showers, dishwashers, washing machines and other appliances of 1.4 million residents in eight South Bay cities flows into the plant, where it goes through three levels of treatment, San Jose’s director of environmental services Kerrie Romanow said.
Romanow said the spilled wastewater had gone through two of the three levels and that most of the impurities had been removed.
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