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.
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A border w\a\l\l\dam to keep all the sewage on the Mexican side of the border. As for any extra water diverted there, subtract it from their Colorado River allotment. And, out of fairness, also build a retaining wall along the edge of SF to keep their sewage from polluting the bay.
Yes, that was part of the era when we still had hopes and possibilities, prop 187, and the far too moderate Pete Wilson who oddly enough was tough on immigration.
What are US taxpayers supposed to do about it when it is coming from Mexico?
The same thing they do here NOTHING it’s why it keeps happening.
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