George Mullen has presented an excellent and well reasoned proposal to construct just north of the Tijuana River mouth a long jetty to divert to deeper waters the never ending near shore littoral current contaminating our beaches with Mexican sewage.
I recently drove through Greater Tijuana.
It’s huge and extends halfway to Tecate and south to well below Rosarito.
We can only guess at the population.
There is minimal sewage control and most effluent is bound to end up in the ocean.
Still can’t drink tap water
Our Mexican friends are highly capable people, but they do not value efforts to build infrastructure and are slow to maintain it, if ever. In essence they don’t seem to care.
There are different standards: In the 1950s I could not drink the tap water in Mexico and in 2023 I still can’t.
As in many parts of Latin America they mix sewage, trash, and who knows what toxins and send them down the river, out of their sight and into ours.
Proposals to fix are dismal
Short and long term prospects are dismal.
Bureaucracy, inadequate funds, international bickering, and inaction will prevail. Our intermittent beach closures will continue and might even become permanent. American citizens and our national defense will be in danger.
Apart from Sen. Padilla there has been a thunderous silence from most of our higher level representatives. They should be screaming bloody murder.
Get a federal State of Emergency declaration.
Simplify it by ditching the extraneous froth about the south bay entrance and green energy. The Navy Seabees could build the jetty…right now.
