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Big projects aimed at stemming the toxic sewage flowing from Tijuana into Imperial Beach and the surrounding region are on the horizon and that’s a welcome development.
But any such improvements come with a nagging question based on historical experience: How long will this fix last?
Cross-border pollution has been a problem for the better part of a century and has defied past efforts to solve it. It’s not that previous actions didn’t help. Some did, and they greatly diminished the health and environmental threat and reduced beach closures.
But as Tijuana grew, so did the polluted discharges and those facilities built to handle them eventually became overwhelmed. That perhaps has never more been the case than in recent years, as the border city has boomed and its crumbling infrastructure has failed to keep up.
USW Demands Justice for Victims of Grupo Mexico
Fifteen Years After Mine Disaster, Lack of Accountability Still Hurts Workers
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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/
The United Steelworkers (USW) union issued the following statement as workers prepare to mark the anniversary of the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster that took place Feb. 19, 2006:
Fifteen years after an explosion killed 65 workers at the Pasta de Conchos mine in Sabinas, Mexico, justice has still not been served.
One of the worst mining disasters in the country s history, the incident became still more horrifying when the mine s owner, Grupo Mexico, called off the search for survivors after only five days and sealed all but two of the victims bodies inside the mine.
EPA says help is on the way for San Diego beaches fouled by sewage from Tijuana
Signs warn of contaminated ocean water in Imperial Beach in 2019.
(K.C. Alfred / San Diego Union-Tribune)
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When a storm pummeled the San Diego-Tijuana region two weeks ago, hundreds of millions of gallons of water laced with raw sewage, trash and industrial chemicals flowed over the border, shuttering beaches as far north as Coronado.
The shoreline stink and closures came as no surprise to residents of Imperial Beach, a city where swimming was prohibited at its main oceanfront for nearly half of 2020. The beach along Border Field State Park was closed for 295 days last year.
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