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San Francisco is built around a bay. But no, it wasn't the salt water mist and the paint protecting the bare metal chipping away. It was the dog piss.
Apparently people peeing on steel objects is an actual serious structural issue.
Here's a bridge in Sumatra that got hit:
https://www.loosewireblog.com/2004/11/urine_corrosion.html
I see another reference to civil engineering proceedings on a bridge in the Carribbean that faced a similar problem.
We need little zinc doggies to bolt to those spots for a sacrificial anode.
Or if humans are the cause, I guess little zinc dicks would be more appropriate.