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.