Large sewage spill in Tijuana, Mexico, flows north of border – IOTW Report

Large sewage spill in Tijuana, Mexico, flows north of border

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Officials in Southern California are crying foul after more than 140 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Tijuana River in Mexico and flowed north of the border for more than two weeks, according to a report.

The spill was caused Feb. 2 during rehabilitation of a sewage collector pipe and wasn’t contained until Thursday, the International Boundary and Water Commission said in its report released Friday. The river drains into the Pacific Ocean on the U.S. side.

Serge Dedina, the mayor of Imperial Beach, California, said residents of his city and other coastal communities just north of the border have complained about a growing stench.

Dedina criticized federal officials in the U.S. and Mexico for not alerting people to the spill.

“Border authorities charged with managing sewage infrastructure and reporting these spills must do better and be held accountable for this act,” Dedina said in a statement Saturday. He called for the resignation of Edward Drusina, chief of the international water commission, over his lack of attention to cross-border sewage flows.

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18 Comments on Large sewage spill in Tijuana, Mexico, flows north of border

  1. Another reason to go with my idea of a navigable canal instead of a wall. Put ’em in tent cities, hand ’em shovels and make sure they’re on the other side when it’s finished.

  2. Years ago, Canada did this twice up near Trail BC and it flowed into the Columbia River that passes through our area. We were miles down the line and didn’t really smell as much as saw these huge brown floatations of fecal matter.

  3. Jose aka Poncho; Two weeks? Must be some more fake news@ We have had human sewage flowing from Mexico into the United States for the better part of fifty years!”
    So true. The Salton Sea has been polluted by mexico for even longer than that.

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