San Diego
The City Council voted Monday to allow Mexican sewage from the Tijuana River to be treated at a plant in Point Loma.
In a unanimous vote, the City Council approved an agreement allowing the U.S. section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to use an emergency connection to transmit Mexican sewage from the Tijuana River to the Metropolitan Sewer System for treatment at the Point Loma plant.
The agreement allows the local treatment plant to process the up to 13 million gallons of sewage that flows across the border daily. The agreement is intended as an interim step in solving the border sewage problem.
The IBWC began construction earlier this year of an emergency connection to carry sewage to the sewer system.
The planned treatment facility, which is expected to completed in 1995, should handle about 25 million gallons a day.
When completed, it will cost about $860,000 annually to process the added sewage, city officials said. The processing is to be financed by a state fund that helps local agencies clean up the environment.
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