Posted on 06/30/2023 7:44:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some 555 days after Tijuana spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage onto San Diego's otherwise environmentally regulated beaches, the local Board of Supervisors, which is nearly all Democrat, has up and taken notice.
According to the local Times of San Diego:
San Diego County supervisors unanimously approved a proclamation Tuesday declaring a state of emergency due to pollution and sewage flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Board Chairwoman Nora Vargas and Vice Chair Terra Lawson-Remer introduced the proclamation, which asks Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden to issue similar declarations, “suspend red tape that may hinder response efforts, and expedite access to federal resources for San Diego County.”
“This is the same process recently followed by local agencies to resolve the water quality crisis in Flint, Michigan,” county officials added.
The sewage is gross and the place is getting gross. Here's how bad it is:
According to both supervisors, for several decades “the Tijuana River has caused immense devastation to the coastlines and beaches of San Diego County, resulting in contamination and pollution.”
Extensive documentation by the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission has found “that since 2018, more than 100 billion gallons of toxic effluent have entered the United States through the Tijuana River,” according to Lawson-Remer and Vargas.
They added that “an alarming 35 billion gallons have crossed the international border flowing north from another broken sewage treatment plant in Punta Bandera” since Dec. 28, 2022, which impacts the San Diego coastline during the summer.
The locals are protesting, and not just in Imperial Beach, which is historically is a kind of a run-down area associated with the enlisted men of the nearby Navy base. They're also protesting in Coronado, where the Navy's flag officers live.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Heck, the Navy, too, is affected. The Navy, trains its SEALs in underwater activity in the area, and its elite forces have to swim in that commode, too, as do the Marines, further north in Oceanside. They don’t get to say ‘no’ owing to the sewage hazard.
Three, local lifeguards, who have to make rescues of errant swimmers, even with the beaches closed, have to make rescues, too, clean water or not?
Plenty of people are affected by the sewage, and the problem has been going on and on and on and on, making it a new normal.
According to both supervisors, for several decades “the Tijuana River has caused immense devastation to the coastlines and beaches of San Diego County, resulting in contamination and pollution.”
Extensive documentation by the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission has found “that since 2018, more than 100 billion gallons of toxic effluent have entered the United States through the Tijuana River,” according to Lawson-Remer and Vargas.
They added that “an alarming 35 billion gallons have crossed the international border flowing north from another broken sewage treatment plant in Punta Bandera” since Dec. 28, 2022, which impacts the San Diego coastline during the summer.
What would environmentalist RFK Jr. do about it?
That party will do to him what they did to Bernie. Republicans wanting in the WH should shout it out. Stir up the excrement. Instead we’ll blame Newsom/Biden. Buys us nothing.
Very symbolic.....
Dam the river just north of the border and let it back up into Mexico.
“Some 555 days after Tijuana spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage onto San Diego’s otherwise environmentally regulated beaches, the local Board of Supervisors, which is nearly all Democrat, has up and taken notice.”
Actually 555 days (1.5 years) is about how long it takes Congre$$ to take action on problems ... just before the next Congre$$ional election.
They send all their crap into the water with no treatment. Send tens of million of their poor and criminals here with no vetting.
And the NWO and Dems love it because it creates a ghetto and eternal votes financed on the backs of legal Americans.
They all should be in jail for life.
The way California’s big cities are headed, I’m almost
shocked it isn’t Mexico complaining... YET!
Has a faint wiff of bar-b-qued iguana
Can’t understand, just what does he say?
I always thought that there should be a moat that runs along with the border wall and filled with sewage. The Tijuana sewage could be re-directed into the moat. Pumps and locks would be needed, but it wouldn’t be too difficult.
The Hotel Del must be a mess...
Pity.
Common sign on Los Angeles beaches over 800 tons of sewage has been dumped over the past few years.
I thought it took them 1.5 years to determine it wasn’t horchata being dumped in the water...
I participated in at least one of his campaigns.
Was Bilbray right?
Earthen berms pushed up against Tijuana River
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/apr/05/stringers-was-bilbray-right/
All of the waste in California is on the sidewalks and streets.
Correction: true dat, LOL.
Those were the days.
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