Alastair Bland

SF Station Writer
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Sewage 2.0, Part II
By Alastair Bland (Apr 20, 2009)
Mike Ortega has worked at the plant since 1980. He recalls his shifts at the headworks almost in a reverie. One day, he says, the ditched spoils of a bank robbery came piling up against the five-eighths-inch screens. More »
Sewage 2.0
San Jose’s sewage plant is a wonder of old-school science and technology. And it’s falling apart.
By Alastair Bland (Apr 20, 2009)
Most of what comes down the pipe at the San Jose–Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant is, frankly, crap. The 53-year-old facility, which occupies 2,600 acres of former marshland on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, serves eight cities and receives the toilet flushings of some 1.4 million people. More »
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