A federal judge indicated Wednesday that he’ll allow a company operating a dysfunctional federally funded wastewater treatment plant that dumps sewage and toxic chemicals into the Tijuana River and the Pacific Ocean to duck a lawsuit brought by environmental groups in San Diego.  In a massive 637-page lawsuit filed last year, San Diego Coastkeeper and the Environmental Rights Foundation claim that Veolia Water North America-West and the U.S. section of the International Boundary and Water Commission have discharged billions of gallons of raw sewage, pesticides, sediment and heavy metal industrial pollutants like DDT and PCBs into southern San Diego County in violation of both the Clean Water Act and the sewage treatment plant’s operating permit.

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