News release: Senator Padilla introduces resolution urging CDC to investigate sewage crisis
Yesterday, Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) introduced Senate Joint Resolution 18, which urges the Center for Disease Control to conduct an investigation into the health impacts surrounding the ongoing pollution crisis in the Tijuana River. For decades, the Tijuana River has been contaminated with billions of gallons of trash, sediment, and wastewater as a result of sewage infrastructure inadequacies has created recurring and worsening pollution problems for the County of San Diego and the southern California coastline. Just this past January, a storm surge caused 14.5 billion gallons of raw sewage and pollution to wash up on the banks of the River as well as overflow into the nearby coastal wetlands, one of the few remaining such ecosystems left in Southern California.
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