Lee Zeldin, led by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said Tuesday she plans to visit California – Mexico border Solve issues related to the “disgusting Mexican sewage” flowing into the United States.
Zeldin will assess the toxic waste and sewage runoff of the Tijuana River, which causes beaches to close in San Diego County.
“I will visit the California-Mexico border in the next few weeks, and the disgusting Mexican sewage is damaging our precious environment,” Zeldin wrote on X.
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Sewage foul runoff in the Tijuana River prompted authorities to demand a solution to the problem. (Reuters/Mike Black)
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question Untreated sewage Earlier this year, the flow of the Mexican Tijuana into the beaches of San Diego, when the then Hollister Wastewater Pump Station transferred sewage from Tijuana to the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, which showed up about 30,000,000,000 gallons of sewage treatment plants.
EPA chief Lee Zeldin plans to visit San Diego County, fearing that Mexican officials’ actions are not enough to address the sewage from the Tijuana River, which pollutes beaches on the U.S. side of the border. (Gate image)
San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, who has raised the question in the past, said he is looking forward to Zeldin’s visit.
In last month’s X post, Desmond called it “one of the biggest environmental and public health crises.”
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“It’s not just a nuisance, it’s a danger. Our Navy SEALs are in the north of this toxic chaos,” Desmond wrote. “Local families are exposed to polluted water. The impact of tourism. However, California continues to look at it in another way. Many politicians have made promises, but nothing is served. It’s over now.”
he explain Mexico Failure to resolve this issue, the United States failed to hold the Mexican government accountable.
Cars line up from Tijuana, Mexico to San Diego, USA on April 4, 2019 at the San Isidro transit port. -U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to visit Caresito’s border fence during his tour to California on Friday. (Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images)
In 2018, a sewage pipe in Mexico broke, causing millions of gallons of sewage to overflow into the Tijuana River, and ultimately the Pacific Ocean. The beach, about 12 miles from the northern border, had to be closed at that time.
Jamie Joseph of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
