Posted on 05/28/2025 4:40:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Researchers have found that pollutants in the Tijuana River, which carries raw sewage and industrial waste from Tijuana, are also turning up in the air along the coast near the U.S.-Mexico border.
After collecting samples from air and water along the coast, scientists from UC San Diego determined that fine particles of various pollutants from wastewater are in the air in parts of San Diego County. They found that sea spray aerosols contain illicit drugs and drug byproducts that occur in human urine, as well as chemicals from tires and personal care products.
The researchers said the pollutants are carried in wastewater and stormwater runoff, and become airborne in spray where the river meets the crashing waves near the border, and also likely enter the air from churning waters in the river itself.
The findings show that the river, in addition to carrying water pollution that has forced beach closures and odors that have plagued nearby communities, also is releasing fine particles of air pollution beyond what people can see or smell. The researchers said, however, that the potential health effects of breathing these pollutants aren’t yet known.
“Often the sewage crisis is considered a water issue — and it is — but we show that it’s in the air too,” said Jonathan Slade, a co-author and associate professor of chemistry at UC San Diego. “This study points to it being an air quality issue, which requires more focus and more study in the future to understand the effects of exposure to these chemicals.”
The study, published Wednesday in the...
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Mexico should be declared a terrorist state and dealt with accordingly.
Tijuana River
world famous for its never ending supply of Tijuana brown trout......
This has been going on for years, but the Biden EPA was too busy pouring millions of taxpayer dollars into useless “environmental Justice” projects that lined the pockets of leftist activists..
“ Tijuana River
world famous for its never ending supply of Tijuana brown trout......”
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I’ve heard folks rave about how good those trout are baked. 😊
More “free trade” with special environmental permissions in mexico
Something in the Air
by Thunderclap Newman (1969)
Lock up the streets and houses
Because there’s something in the air
We got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here,
And you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now.
(Song was in the soundtrack of the great movie The Magic Christian with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, played as business men in suits dove into a huge vat of urine, excrement and animal blood to retrieve money floating in it.
The smell was overcome by their greed.)
We need a 100 mile dmz from the border into mexico. Anything human in there is a target for military training and testing new/existing systems on.
James Knox Polk, whete are you?
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