Compliance with the Federal Clean Water Act is administered in San Francisco by the Bay Area Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Program Description
The program requires that any discharge of wastewaters to surface water needs a permit. The permit sets limits on the quality of the wastewater and requires monitoring.
- All sewage treatment plants have permits.
- Stormwater is also covered by permits.
All wastewater and stormwater from campus drains to the municipal sewer system which goes to a treatment facility that has its own wastewater permit.
CY 2023 Update
Not Applicable.
As of March 9, 2021, the local water quality control board inspector declined to renew the SFSU wastewater discharge permit stating that the campus no longer requires one.