Demo crews douse Candlestick Park rubble with drinking water, not recycled water
SAN FRANCISCO -- California's historic drought is so bad people are banned from even hosing dirt off their front steps, but as iconic Candlestick Park is being demolished, thousands of gallons an hour of drinking water -- fresh from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir -- are being dumped on the rubble to hold down dust.
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Yet all along, the company could have been taking truckloads of free recycled water from a sewage treatment plant less than 2 miles away, as part of a drought conservation program the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has been offering construction crews since last year.
(The) water comes from the region's largest water provider, the SFPUC, which also supplies parts of Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. When this newspaper questioned Lennar on Thursday why it isn't using recycled water, its development director, B.H. Bronson Johnson, responded with a written statement, claiming the SFPUC said it could not.
He said the utility sent the company an email explaining that recycled water "is not authorized for larger demolition dust-control purposes during construction." SFPUC spokesman Tyrone Jue said Thursday that Lennar apparently misinterpreted that email -- the water can be used for dust control. "That's why we promote it," he said. "It's perfectly fine to use."
MORE: http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_28121808/despite-drought-demo-crews-douse-candlestick-park-rubble
How does this shit happen?!? Where's the supervision??? Where's the common sense?
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