With a major storm approaching the Tijuana-San Diego region this week, employees at a sod farm in the Tijuana River Valley dismissed the possibility of any flooding now that an earthen levee has been repaired. That same berm, which snakes along the north bank of the Tijuana River, gave way nearly 14 months ago leading to catastrophic flooding at the grass-growing operation. … The International Boundary and Water Commission, which oversees the land, took months to remove 650 tons of waste materials from the site. But repairing the berm was the responsibility of West Coast Turf, the company that leases the land from IBWC to grow sod. Workers spent weeks filling in two gaping openings in the levee; their work was finished earlier this month.

Other U.S.-Mexico water news:

• Border Report: Plastics most prevalent in trash flows from Tijuana into US
• Laredo Morning Times (Tex.): Texas Senate panel sends message to Trump: Get our water from Mexico
• John Fleck on Inkstain: Blog: Latest forecast suggests Rio Grande drying through Albuquerque is possible by early June