From the meeting · Board of Supervisors, · 0:47
Who is responsible for a damaged sewer main in a city easement?
During general public comment, a homeowner asks the Board to hold the SFPUC to account for a sewer main in a city-recorded easement behind his home, which the utility now says is his responsibility.
a member of the public
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a member of the public Behind my house runs an eight inch sewer main in a five foot easement that the city recorded by ordinance.
a member of the public The line carries runoff from the city's own street drains.
a member of the public The city did easement work on it in 2019, and SFPUC inspected it in 2021.
a member of the public In June of this year, during permitted retaining wall project, the sewer main was damaged.
a member of the public SFPUC has declined to repair or even inspect it, and now says it's private and my liability despite the evidence to the contrary.
a member of the public DBI staff has told me that I am at least the third homeowner that they're aware of in this situation.
a member of the public On July 1, approximately thirty days after I had notified SFPUC of the situation, SFPUC changed the main owner the sewer main's owner and its own data from SFPUC owned to unknown.
Where it's from
- General public comment: what happened
- The episode: Final OK for streamlined CEQA rules; immigrant legal aid and a street renaming
- The full recording from here