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The State Water Resources Control Board on Thursday afternoon issued a Boil Water Advisory for the Silver Strand area of Coronado and Imperial Beach.
However, the problem did not come from sewage flowing from Tijuana, according to Dave Gibson, who leads the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.
The South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant near the U.S-Mexico border is stabilizing, and transboundary flows of sewage water down the Tijuana River are decreasing, as the storm has passed, the agency reported Monday morning.
Dave Gibson, who leads the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, has for years tried to help solve the cross-border sewage contamination problem stemming from Tijuana. With $200,000 in state funds available to address water quality problems arising in the rivers that come across the border from Mexico, he wanted to give that money […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom has initiated correspondence with President Biden and Congress regarding funding for the cross-border pollution affecting the southern coastal shore near cities like Imperial Beach and Coronado.
Leon Benham has proudly called Imperial Beach his home since the Civil Rights era, and today he continues a fight to clean the nearby Tijuana River and stop the flow of raw sewage from Mexico into the Pacific Ocean.
The South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant (SBIWTP) does not discharge or divert untreated sewage into the ocean. While flows into the SBIWTP have averaged 8% above the plant’s design capacity over the past seven months, all flows into the plant are still treated and discharged through a pipeline to 3.5 miles offshore. Furthermore, environmental […]
San Diego County Board of Supervisor Vice Chair Terra Lawson-Remer has long voiced protecting area beaches and coastlines as an essential priority for community members. Lawson-Remer represents District 3, which includes Coronado, and she has a background in working toward social, environmental and economic justice. Earlier this year, the board elected Lawson-Remer as vice chair. […]
A Coronado power trio has spent the past four years working on a documentary regarding the Tijuana sewage crisis and they are hoping to have it done on time to be considered for the Coronado Island Film Festival in November.
Forty nonprofit organizations across San Diego County sent a letter July 14 to Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden urging swift action on the toxic transboundary pollution following through the Tijuana River Watershed and into the Pacific Ocean. The letter echoes the request for a federal emergency declaration first made by Imperial Beach Mayor […]
Close to 50 local residents and public officials convened at the Community Center in Coronado on July 12, and they were told the problem of processing sewage from Mexico has significantly increased.
The move by elected officials comes after The Coronado News earlier this year published a five-part investigative series that examined the decades of broken promises by political leaders to fix the sewage crisis that has hurt local economies and sickened residents, U.S. Border Patrol agents and Navy SEALS.
Leon Benham is an organic farmer/environmentalist who has lived in Imperial Beach for 60 years. He has a solution for the Tijuana sewage crisis.
A group of environmentalists in Tijuana walked among beach-goers with signs about the ongoing Tijuana sewage crisis encouraging them to take action on July 2. That Sunday morning, Tijuana Animal Rights organized a beach cleanup and demonstration to raise awareness of ocean contamination at Playas de Tijuana, with outreach efforts to enact the Plant-Based Treaty […]
The United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission is inviting the public to a meeting regarding the health crisis at the Coronado Community Center on July 12. The two-hour meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Triton Room at 1845 Strand Way.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors have declared a state of emergency regarding the ongoing Tijuana sewage crisis that has polluted the Pacific Ocean and closed beaches in Coronado and Imperial Beach.
Tijuana Animal Save alongside other activists in Tijuana will be organizing a demonstration to raise awareness of the Mexican government’s failure to take action against ocean contamination, organizers said.
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