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EPA Chief Pushes for Permanent Solution to Cross-Border Sewage Crisis

Lee Zeldin meets with Mexican officials at the U.S.–Mexico border to address public health, environmental, and military impacts from decades of sewage contamination.

FILE. Sewage-laden sludge in the Tijuana River valley.
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Overview

  • EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is in San Diego meeting with Mexican Environmental Secretary Alicia Bárcena to demand a lasting resolution to sewage pollution crossing the U.S.–Mexico border.
  • The contamination, caused by inadequate wastewater infrastructure in Tijuana, has led to over 700 consecutive days of beach closures and illnesses among Navy SEALs during training.
  • Mexico has completed the San Antonio de los Buenos Wastewater Treatment Plant, but $88 million in USMCA funds for additional projects remains unallocated.
  • The U.S. is expanding and rehabilitating the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, a five-year project launched last fall.
  • Coronado beaches remain closed following a recent temporary release of five million gallons of sewage per day for infrastructure repairs in early April.