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US and Mexico Sign Accord to Combat Tijuana River Sewage Flowing Across the Border
BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO, JUL 24 – The agreement requires Mexico to invest $93 million and accelerate infrastructure improvements to reduce billions of gallons of toxic sewage affecting the environment and public health.
- Thursday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Mexico’s Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources Alicia Bárcena Ibarra signed a memorandum of understanding, aiming to end sewage flow into the Tijuana River.
- Aging infrastructure in Tijuana has for decades allowed raw sewage to pollute the environment and harm public health.
- Mexico will fund and begin construction on two projects this year to divert 10 million gallons a day, and the agreement releases EPA Border Water Infrastructure Program funding to rehabilitate Pump Station 1 and collection pipes.
- Paloma Aguirre said, `We need immediate and tangible action`, and pledged the county will take action in the next 30 days to help affected residents.
- Next month, the U.S. will complete South Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion, and Mexico plans to finish Tijuana sanitation projects over the next year, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra said.
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