Posted on 08/12/2023 2:15:44 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
Parque Baja California should be the ideal community park. Mature trees provide shade and benches give visitors a comfortable place to sit and feel the ocean breeze.
But running through the middle of the park is a drainage culvert with water flowing year round.
Martin Acosta recalls seeing a couple of kids jump into the water to retrieve a soccer ball there earlier this year. One of the kids said the water “smelled like doo-doo,” said Acosta, who is an architect and environmental activist.
“The kid was right, because that’s exactly what it is,” he said.
The sewer water in Parque Baja California is a microcosm of Tijuana’s failing infrastructure — an ongoing crisis with grave impacts on economies, quality of life and public health on both sides of the border.
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I've read about the lead pipe theory.
To bad they didn't have the EPA around. They might've lasted a couple more years. /s
Probably not. They'd have fed the EPA people to the lions. ;-)
Not the way wedeal with it today, with respect to sanitation and treating it.
https://phys.org/news/2015-11-toilets-sewers-ancient-roman-sanitation.html
Where are the tree huggers’ outrage?
I lived in Impearial Beach in the early 90’s and there were many times when the smell of raw sewage was overwhelming.
Excellent song.
CC
Lions gotta eat too. Bet they would've found those soft, tender EPA soy boys & girls quite digestible. :O)
There are still lead pipes in use in the United States today. There weren’t any standards for lead in water until 30 years ago.
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