Emergency funding to stem cross-border pollution impacting Imperial Beach and Coronado could be diverted for maintenance of South Bay treatment plant that services Mexico
Hundreds of millions of federal dollars set aside to address the rampant sewage pollution from Tijuana that hasfor decades will fall well short of what’s needed to get the job done, according to a new assessment.
“Everybody’s urging the state and federal administration to really prioritize this,” she said. “People are getting sick. We’re going to have a summer with tourism impacted. That’s exactly why I’ve been calling for a state of emergency.” “We’re starting to catch up on the maintenance and the repairs,” Morgan Rogers, operations manager for the IBWC in San Diego, told the Union-Tribune in late May.
But that’s taken a toll on the aging facility, which first came online in 1997. The plant’s five primary treatment tanks have been frequently clogged with sewage, garbage and sediment —As a result, IBWC’s damaged facility has racked up numerous clean water violations, according to San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.
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