This summer’s fish die-off in the San Francisco Bay has city leaders looking for a way to prevent it from happening again. Scientists say there is something that can be done, but it won’t be cheap.
“Some days you can smell it and I'm not sure if it's algae or a waste processing treatment plant which is close by,” said Somik Bahara, San Francisco resident.“We think that light is an important factor here, and anomalously suspended sediment levels this year,” said David Senn of the SF Estuary Institute.
San Francisco, and other Bay Area cities, can't do much about warmer days and climate change, but they can do something to cut back on all the nitrogen and phosphorus that's dumped in the bay from wastewater treatment plants.This is a solution that could cost billions of dollars but Peskin hopes the federal government can help, like it did in the 1970s with the Clean Water Act.
The hope is San Francisco can lead the way for other municipal water treatments plants to do the same. The problem won’t be fixed overnight, but they want to start working on it now, to make sure that they get it right.
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