The city is midway through a 20-year, multi-billion dollar sewer upgrade project, systematically refurbishing and replacing the system block-by-block, road-by-road, neighborhood-by-neighborhood. This is a big reason for all the insane construction citywide.[1]
I don't know the details, but it looks like the flooding described in that article was addressed by the (now completed?) Lower Alemany Area Stormwater Improvement Project and/or Upper Alemany Drainage
Improvements Project, both of which were part of the citywide master plan.
[1] They're also repaving roads after replacement, but it seems coordination isn't as good as it could be, especially in highly trafficked areas. I assume this is why some really bad streets haven't been repaved--waiting for sewer replacement--and why there's a lot of bad patching--repaved too quickly.
Thanks for the info. It's been a few years since the last very serious sewer system backup in the lower Alemany area. I'll do my own research, but if you have any links to this project that address flooding, please post them.
I don't know the details, but it looks like the flooding described in that article was addressed by the (now completed?) Lower Alemany Area Stormwater Improvement Project and/or Upper Alemany Drainage Improvements Project, both of which were part of the citywide master plan.
[1] They're also repaving roads after replacement, but it seems coordination isn't as good as it could be, especially in highly trafficked areas. I assume this is why some really bad streets haven't been repaved--waiting for sewer replacement--and why there's a lot of bad patching--repaved too quickly.