Sewage water filled with trash flow down the Tijuana River on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 in Imperial Beach, California. All this from the sewage and other toxins constantly flowing from the Tijuana River into the ocean off Imperial Beach and the surrounding region.
Just this week, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and state legislative committees voted on proposals to gather information about the health risks, attempt to hold some of the polluters accountable, and stop more pollution from fouling the region. There’s movement toward a long-term, lasting solution: cutting greenhouse gasses to reverse global warming, and pursuit of hundreds of millions of dollars to fix crumbling and inadequate infrastructure on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to reduce pollution.
If the impacts of cross-border pollution are well known, so are the sources: the sewage flows from the ever-growing Tijuana metropolis that overwhelm the city’s wastewater system, toxic discharges from border commercial plants and a balky international treatment facility that doesn’t have the capacity to handle it all.
In March, the Imperial Beach City Council entered into an agreement with the San Diego Air Pollution Control District to install
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