Category: Tijuana River

Border Pollution Continues to Cause San Diego Beach Closures

Four beaches have closed, some multiple times, in San Diego County this year due to pollution associated with the Tijuana River, according to the California State Water Resources Control Board. Three of those beaches closed a combined 25 times last year due to the same reason, according to the agency. But efforts to reduce pollution…


San Diego Residents Exposed to Tijuana Sewage Through Air Pollution

IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif.—Bacteria, viruses, and chemicals from ocean pollution flowing from the Tijuana River is becoming airborne and blowing inland in Imperial Beach, according to research released Mar. 2 by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California–San Diego (UCSD). The study found that this coastal water pollution—largely untreated sewage runoff as a…