Posted on 02/25/2017 1:15:33 PM PST by LibWhacker
Officials in Southern California are crying foul after more than 140 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Tijuana River in Mexico and flowed north of the border for more than two weeks, according to a report.
The spill was caused Feb. 2 during rehabilitation of a sewage collector pipe and wasn't contained until Thursday, the International Boundary and Water Commission said in its report released Friday. The river drains into the Pacific Ocean on the U.S. side.
Serge Dedina, the mayor of Imperial Beach, California, said residents of his city and other coastal communities just north of the border have complained about a growing stench.
Dedina criticized federal officials in the U.S. and Mexico for not alerting people to the spill.
"Border authorities charged with managing sewage infrastructure and reporting these spills must do better and be held accountable for this act," Dedina said in a statement Saturday. He called for the resignation of Edward Drusina, chief of the international water commission, over his lack of attention to cross-border sewage flows.
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Pump it over to the Colorado and return it.
They should look closely...it likely is merely more useless criminal illegal alien invaders.
You could say they are sending their little wetbacks down the river to the USA but it wouldn’t be very nice to characterize it that way.
Their sewage is pipelined to Pt Loma treatment plant.
Mehico doubling down on sending their sewerage into America.
Tijuana IS a large sewage spill, and it’s flowed north of the border for a long time.
Wow! Crapped on by land AND sea!
LOL! Recycled!
Send Hillary’s tour bus down to a drainage ditch in Tijuana.
Gee all cultures and societies are the same aren’t they?
Not only the liquid type, but also the two legged type.
Mexicans doing the job before the EPA can do it.
bttt
No doubt the greens will riot in Portland.
Right????
Our tax dollars were used to build a de-salizination plant in Yuma, AZ in 1992 at a cost to the federal government of $250 million, and the plant was meant to help the U.S. meet its treaty obligations with Mexico involving the Colorado River. The plant produces enough salt free water annually for the use of approx 120,000 Mexicans and their farms south of Yuma. The annual maintenance cost is approx $6 million U.S. tax monies. I say shut it down until Mexico stops their nonsense with the sewage impacting California. We should have told Mexico to shove it and build their own de-salizination plant decades ago (it’s not our fault the river is so salty by the time it reaches the delta area south of our border). Apparently no good deed paid for by U.S. tax dollars seems to go unpunished when dealing with Mexico.
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