The binational agency that operates an aging wastewater treatment plant at the U.S.-Mexico border that is allowing Tijuana sewage to foul South County shorelines said it won’t meet this week’s deadline to bring the broken system into compliance with federal water quality standards. Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner, who heads the U.S. section of the International Boundary and Water Commission responsible for the South Bay plant, told the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board on Wednesday that continuing equipment failures and political challenges made it impossible to get three of the five primary treatment tanks online by Thursday, as had been promised. …. Water board commissioners praised Giner’s exhaustive efforts, but said they weren’t enough.

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