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San Francisco takes on local flooding with Adopt a Drain

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San Francisco has teamed with civic tech volunteers to encourage residents to adopt, monitor and care for city drains.

The city’s Adopt a Drain program features a website showing about 25,000 storm drains and catch basins that the city maintains. Residents can choose a drain to maintain, which means clearing debris when drains gets clogged to improve rainwater flow and limit local flooding.