{"id":83224,"date":"2025-07-22T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83224\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:01:08","slug":"san-diegos-storm-drain-maintenance-almost-nonexistent-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83224\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego\u2019s storm drain maintenance \u2018almost nonexistent\u2019 \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cAudit: City\u2019s flooding response flawed\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/07\/16\/chaotic-planning-delays-miscommunication-san-diego-recovery-efforts-fell-short-after-2024-flooding-audit-finds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 16<\/a>): Unlike the county, the city\u2019s maintenance of storm drain infrastructure is almost nonexistent. Sediment and debris routinely pile up. Trees, native plants and non-native plants grow where water should flow over concrete. It\u2019s so bad that permits had to be obtained to remove endangered plant species before cleaning out culverts. I hope the city improves maintenance of its stormwater system.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Pearson, Spring Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cAudit: City\u2019s flooding response flawed\u201d (July 16): Unlike the county, the city\u2019s maintenance of storm drain infrastructure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-83224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114897019472740741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}