Sewage Happens

By Amy Standen on Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

Think your city has a sewage problem? You haven't seen the half of it. San Francisco's Bay Area sits on top of a ticking time bomb: a vast network of disintegrating sewage pipes, some of them made of clay and dating back to the Gold Rush.

KQED Quest's Amy Standen visited the frontlines of the war on sewage: plumbers who make their living off of busted pipes, as well as a city official with an unenviable job: trying to sell the city on a multi-billion dollar plan to fix the system.

Listen to Standen's Report at the Public Radio Exchange

(Photo by liltree via Flickr/Creative Commons)

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