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Recent floods expose San Diego’s inadequate stormwater system
https://sdnews.com/recent-floods-expose-san-diegos-inadequate-stormwater-system/
Recent rain patterns have made it clear that San Diego’s stormwater infrastructure is in desperate need of a makeover.
More than 1,000 San Diegans were displaced and 595 buildings sustained major damage during our January and February winter storms, according to the Voice of San Diego.
The recent San Diego Capital Infrastructure Planning Outlook relatedly stated that current infrastructure was “… past its useful life, resulting in system deterioration and failure. Age combined with deferred maintenance due to historic underfunding of the storm drain system has resulted in an increasing amount of damaged, unmaintained and failed stormwater infrastructure that can lead to flooding and catastrophic failure…”
It begs the question then, if the city’s infrastructure had been updated, would as many San Diego lives — as stated by San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria in a January news conference — have been changed in a matter of minutes?