Mexico to dump millions of gallons of sewage into Tijuana River, US continues to be a dumping ground: Official

Mexico is slated to dump astir 400 cardinal gallons of sewage into the Tijuana River, which volition mostly apt travel into the United States, a decades-old occupation that has posed biology repercussions for beaches and communities, officials said. 

Crews are slated to execute attraction connected the sewer strategy successful Tijuana, which sits crossed the borderline from San Diego, which continues to beryllium a dumping crushed for Mexico's pollution, San Diego Supervisor Jim Desmond told Fox News Digital.

"Every clip there's attraction being done connected their broadside of the border, alternatively of diverting it (sewage) to a attraction plant, it conscionable goes into the river, the gullies and yet ends up successful the U.S., and into the ocean," helium said. 

"They enactment it (sewage) into the large drainage ditch called the Tijuana River that flows downhill, and unluckily downhill is the United States," helium added. 

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Sewage-fouled runoff from the Tijuana River has prompted authorities telephone for a solution to hole the issue.  (Reuters/Mike Blake)

Instead of re-routing the sewage, Mexico has decided to marque it a U.S. problem, Desmond said. Toxic discarded and sewage runoff from the Tijuana River has persisted for decades, arsenic overmuch of it spills downstream into the U.S., resulting successful formation closures. 

On Tuesday, Lee Zeldin, who heads the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said helium plans to sojourn the borderline successful San Diego to code issues pertaining to the "disgusting Mexican sewage" flowing into the U.S. 

A radical of migrants basal adjacent to a U.S. Border Patrol van aft surrendering astatine the Tijuana stream connected the US-Mexico border, seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, connected Dec. 19, 2022.  (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the EPA and the Mexican consulate successful San Diego. 

Mexican officials person nary inducement to hole the problem, Desmond said, due to the fact that the authorities determination hasn't been held accountable. 

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The borderline obstruction betwixt Imperial Beach (Right), adjacent San Ysidro, California, and Playas de Tijuana adjacent the Mexican metropolis of Tijuana.  (Getty Images)

"I deliberation it's truly clip for national action," helium said. "There needs to beryllium immoderate benignant of repercussions for those actions. Unfortunately, their deficiency of an capable sewage strategy is our problem. It's not their problem."

To person Mexican officials to hole the problem, the U.S. could restrict the fig of radical coming crossed the borderline and visas, arsenic good arsenic different forms of leverage if beaches person to beryllium closed, Desmond said. 

The Tijuana River flows close down a buying promenade connected the U.S. broadside of the border, which poses wellness risks for section residents, helium said. In summation to formation closures, Navy SEALs and recruits bid adjacent the toxic runoff and children and immoderate aged residents connected the U.S. broadside of the borderline person gotten sick due to the fact that of the stench from the runoff, said Desmond. 

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"We've got to person a amended strategy present arsenic opposed to conscionable being a sewage postulation for Tijuana," helium said.