The newest announcement of beach closures in the South Bay is an old problem. A problem that is not getting better.
And this news about more than 100 million gallons of wastewater from Tijuana flowing into the ocean along beaches from Imperial Beach to Coronado is bring a crashing wave of new calls for something to be done.
Four years ago, after decades of beach closures and calls by local mayors, this problem looked like it was about to be solved. California’s U.S Senators and San Diego members of Congress made an announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency had signed off and would be moving ahead with a multi-million-dollar repair plan —to fix the infrastructure of water and sewage lines at the border.
But according to the San Diego Union Tribune, groundbreaking for the project is still three to five years away.
That frustrating news comes on the heels of the new testing methods being used to evaluate the ocean water after sewage spills, which is leading to even more beach closures, which already are happening frequently. And that means more visitors stay away and that means more tourism dollars are washed away due to the lack of action on solving the border sewage problem.
The lack of any real progress on the part of the governments on both sides of the border is enough to make you sick, even if you don’t go into the surf.
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