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Mexican sewage gushing into Navy SEAL training waters is US' 'next Camp Lejeune,' vets warn; UPDATE: EPA sect’y Lee Zeldin flies out to handle it
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[FoxNews] 'It's a crisis. It's a FEMA-level travesty,' vet says of Mexican sewage crisis
If it were a new problem, it would be a crisis. Since Mexico has been allowing this to happen all along the border for decades without a care, it is merely an unacceptable situation that was accepted long ago. A wealthy California community even donated a water treatment plant to their counterpart across the border at one point, I understand, without it resulting in any improvement, suggesting the problem might actually be intentional. But perhaps this time the Trump team can make a difference…
Update from the Daily Signal at 4:00 p.m. ET: |
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is flying out to San Diego Tuesday to address a “public health and environmental crisis” regarding sewage on the U.S.-Mexico border on Earth Day.
“There is nowhere more important for me to be tomorrow than on the border in California, dealing with this very important public health and environmental crisis,” Zeldin told reporters at a Monday morning news conference ahead of his flight.
“For decades, there has been raw sewage that’s been traveling across the border and Americans are very concerned with regard to beach closures, degradation of the Tijuana River Valley, concerns with public air, health quality,” Zeldin noted. “It’s been going on for too long, and we have to urgently and deliberately pursue and implement a solution that permanently ends this.”
Earlier this month, Mexico completed its San Antonio de los Buenos Wastewater Treatment Plant, which treats approximately 18 million gallons of sewage per day, the Coronado Times reported. The U.S. is rehabilitating and expanding its treatment plant, the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, in a project that launched last fall and is projected to take five years to complete.
The International Boundary and Water Commission reported on April 9 that Mexico would start releasing five million gallons a day of sewage into the Tijuana River for the next five days as authorities repair a critical junction box that forms part of the International Collector project.
That flow partly abated a few days later, but many beaches in Coronado, the coastal city next to San Diego, remained closed as of Saturday.
Zeldin told reporters that he will meet with Mexico’s environmental secretary, and he will host a news conference with Navy SEALs, who have gotten sick due to the contamination. He will also visit a local wastewater treatment facility, meet with businesses and elected officials, and take a helicopter tour of the border.
In December, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, touted President Joe Biden signing a bill allocating $250 million for the wastewater project.
When asked about that funding, Zeldin mentioned another source of funding—the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement that President Donald Trump signed in November 2018 and which went into force in July 2020.
The EPA head said Mexico had failed to obligate $88 million for projects on the Mexican side, under the USMCA.
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