SAN DIEGO — A regional blackout four months ago resulted in massive sewage spills in San Diego and now wastewater officials are considering a $12 million strategy to make sure it doesn’t happen again, according to U-T San Diego.

The plan will rely on the city spending $800,000 to use backup generators for vulnerable sites while $11 million is spent installing eight permanent generators, stated the article.

“They have a billion ways to bury problems, and I thought this would just be one more,” said local resident Jim Reed, who attended a recent public meeting about the strategy. “They didn’t do that, they got right to the point. … They said ‘We need to have a sewage system with redundancy for the power supply.’ ”

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