San Diego – The head of the Environment Protection Agency said on Tuesday that Mexico must stop the flow of billions of gallons sewer and toxic chemicals from Tizuana, which has polluted the Pacific Ocean in Southern California in the surrounding California, closing beaches and training the water in the water.
While traveling to the Earth Day on the California-Mexico border, Lee Zeldine claimed that he traveled a plant in San Diego County that considered Nitashi as a secondary facility and flew along the border to see the Tijuana River. He was also scheduled to meet the seal.
Zeldine said that his company would present a task list to Mexico to solve the environmental crisis for decades, but he stopped referring to how the Trump administration did not work, but how would Mexico do accountable.
The problem for President Donald Trump is “top of the mind”, Zeldine said they added that if they were not done, they probably didn’t talk about imposing tariffs.
“We are going to know if Mexico is about to solve it to solve it, and then we will leave from there, as far as the strategy and strategy,” Jeldine said.
Mexico Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Allisia Barcena says her country also wants to solve the problem. He met Jeldin the previous evening and said they had made progress in searching the solution.
In a statement in Spanish, Barcena said, “We’re here because we want to solve it.” “Only mexican beaches have no medical waste water, but also in the United States.”
120 miles (195 km)-The long Tijuana river runs near the Mexico coast and enters southern California, where it flows through the naval-owned land and flows to the Pacific.
Tijuana’s waste water treatment centers have been elderly and its population and industry has developed, the increasing amounts of toxin have entered the river and San Diego County – 100 billion gallons filled with industrial chemicals and garbage have been raw drain.
Pollution is not only swimmers, surfer and lifeguards, but also schoolgirls, border patrol agents and others who do not go to the water. Scientists say that when the drain is foam and the air takes the breath of the people, it enters and evaporates.
The Naval Special Warfare Center is reviewing its training site for seal candidates after reporting 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal illness from 2019 to 2023.
The beaches of California near the border have been closed for more than four years.
Zeldine said that more than $ 653 million funds have been allocated to solve the problem since 2021, but the crisis continues due to the delay by the Mexican government, Jeldine said. He also added that he and Trump are hopeful that President Claudia Shainboum, who took charge last October, will change under the relatively new administration.
Geldine said that after a 90 -minute meeting with Mexico officials in San Diego, Shainboum and his Environment Secretary had left him with the idea that he wanted to have a “Strong -associated relationship”.
“What is being informed by the New Mexican President said that this situation is a strong desire to fully solve it,” Jeldine said. ” However, he made it clear that he would like to take Mexico action.
“There is no way we are going to stand in front of the people of California and ask them to be more patient and just to endure with all of us that we get stuck in raw centers for the next 10 or 20 or 30 years,” he said. “So we’re all out of patience.”
Equipped by lawmakers on both sides, Zeldine mentions that cleanup efforts have rare bilateral support.
Zeldine South Bay has visited the International Waste Water Treatment Plant, which was built to treat 25 million gallons every day as a secondary plant on the US with the funds of both countries.
Several waste water treatment projects to reduce the flow of Mexico and to upgrade its existing plants. Barcena said that returning to the operating full capacity this month, the repair San Antonio de Los Buenos Plant should make a difference.
However, Jeldine said that Mexico must complete several other projects, including flooding gates to collect garbage in Tijuana. Another one considered one will remove 10 million gallons of sewage away from the coast.
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Mexico City Associated Press Writer Maria Verza contributed.