An environmental organization filed suit Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco asserting that polluted stormwater from a San Leandro scrapyard operation is draining into San Francisco Bay.
San Francisco Baykeeper, a nonprofit based in Oakland, alleges that Alco Iron & Metal Co., headquartered in San Leandro, has repeatedly violated the federal Clean Water Act by allowing stormwater runoff contaminated with metals from its recycling operations to be discharged into the Bay.
According to court records, Baykeeper has filed or joined more than 100 lawsuits in federal court in San Francisco since 2020, many of them involving stormwater runoff…