The Region : Sewage Problem Assailed

Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco) vowed to put “the entire weight of the Assembly” behind his bill to spend state funds in an effort to solve the decades-old problem of sewage flowing across the border from Mexico. Flanked by Sen. Wadie P. Deddeh (D-Chula Vista) and a number of other local and state officials, Brown held a San Diego press conference in which he said his bill, introduced Tuesday, would appropriate $15 million from state general funds to build a defensive pipeline and pumping station to force the Mexican sewage back to Tijuana--and would place on the November, 1986, ballot a $150-million bond measure to build a sewage treatment plant on the northern side of the border if the problem persists.