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Nestled on the bottom of a steep San Francisco hill is ‘Donna’ the drain. “One time someone dumped wallpaper paste or some kind of white hardened stuff into Donna. I had to scrape it off her grate with a silverware knife. That is the one time I got fed up with the mistaken notion anything can be dumped into a drain.” Elizabeth Heidues has been a part of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)’s, Adopt a Drain Program since January 2017. She wants to share her story in the hopes to encourage others to adopt a drain themselves. “I’ve never owned a car; I bike, I walk or take public