Toxic Tide: South Bay wastewater treatment plants still need hundreds of million$ for repairs

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IBWC commissioner said there's enought funding to get started on repairs, however

That’s about how much the International Boundary and Water Commission needs to finish fixing and expanding its broken South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant in San Ysidro.

The plant is supposed to clean 25 million gallons of raw sewage from Tijuana every day. It’s not. It’s one of the reasons why the Tijuana River Valley floods with trash and raw sewage. The plant was a large part of NBC 7’s special report “Giner said on Thursday that Congress sent the IBWC about $300 million two years ago to get construction started. The commission hoped for another $310 million this year to finish, but $156 million was allocated.

Giner said they’ll keep lobbying for the money from Congress and the state of California, which it can now do, thanks to the rules being changed to allow them to get funding from multiple sources other than just the federal government.

 

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