The San Diego region has secured $300 million in federal funds for a facility to capture toxic Tijuana spills before they hit U.S. shorelines, leaders say.
The San Diego region has secured $300 million in federal funding for a new U.S. facility to capture Tijuana sewage spills before they foul shorelines in the South Bay region of southwestern San Diego County, elected leaders said Friday.
The approach is a shift from longstanding efforts to help Mexico maintain its wastewater system in Tijuana.with several options for how to address the pollution.north of the border to intercept and treat the pollution. It’s been estimated the project could reduce cross-border flows from roughly 138 days a year on average, down to about 12.
According to California’s lawsuit, toxic water pollution from Mexico has shuttered San Diego beaches more than 500 days over the last three years.Most of the impacts are concentrated along the southern shoreline of Imperial Beach, which has been closed since November with tens of millions of gallons of heavily polluted water flowing over the border daily.
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