Sewage Spill in Tijuana Continues to Keep San Diego Area Beaches Closed
Area beaches remained closed Monday after a pipe break in Tijuana sent at least 24 million gallons of sewage pouring into the Pacific Ocean.
“The Mexican officials are estimating they will fix it, maybe, by late (this) afternoon,” said Dan Avera, San Diego County’s deputy director of environmental health services.
Signs warned swimmers of high bacteria levels at beaches from the U.S.-Mexican border north about 15 miles to North Island Naval Air Station, at the entrance to San Diego’s harbor.
The closed areas included Imperial Beach, the Silver Strand and the shoreline of affluent Coronado, where President Clinton and his family vacationed a month ago.
“I wish President Clinton were here today. I think he’d see things a little differently,” said City Councilman Juan Vargas, one of many local politicians expressing disgust at the region’s continued problems with Mexican sewage.
The untreated sewage is flowing out of a 42-inch pipe that broke Sunday morning near a treatment plant in Tijuana.
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