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<\/p>\nThe City of Coronado has struggled with water contamination for the last several decades amid the Tijuana River sewage crisis.<\/p>\n
SAN DIEGO \u2014 San Diego County’s Department of Environmental Health and Quality Thursday issued a water closure of Glorietta Bay in Coronado because of a reported sewage release.<\/p>\n
Beachgoers were advised the ocean water in the area contains sewage and may cause illness. Ocean waters will remain closed until sampling and field observations confirm these areas are safe for water contact, a county statement read.<\/p>\n
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The announcement comes as closures continue at the Tijuana Slough, Imperial Beach Shoreline and Silver Strand Shoreline — all ocean shoreline from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Silver Strand State Beach Campground — due to sewage in water stemming from the Tijuana River watershed.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the DEHQ has ongoing water advisories due to elevated bacteria levels for La Jolla Children’s Pool, La Jolla Cove, Avenida De La Playa, Tourmaline Surf Park, the main entrance stairs at San Elijo State Beach, Tidelands Park and Coronado Shoreline.<\/p>\n
Similar instances have happened due to contamination in the last several years, including the closure of Coronado Beach over Labor Day weekend last year.<\/p>\n
Beach closures from Imperial Beach to North Beach in Coronado on Labor Day were enacted due to sewage and chemical contamination in the ocean water. The closure, which also included the Silver Strand, frustrated beachgoers and raised concerns about long-standing water quality issues in the area.<\/p>\n
The contamination stems from ongoing issues with wastewater treatment and discharge from Tijuana, Mexico. The South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant had expanded to increase its capacity from 25 million to 35 million gallons of raw sewage per day.<\/p>\n
Frederick Jones, who traveled over Labor Day weekend from Spring Valley with his family, expressed frustration with the long-standing nature of the problem.<\/p>\n
“There’s no way in hell Mexico should have gotten away with this for that long. That’s over 20 years of complete neglect, and no one is held accountable for that,” said Jones.<\/p>\n
The incidents highlight the ongoing challenges in addressing cross-border water pollution and its impact on local communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Coronado has struggled with water contamination for the last several decades amid the Tijuana River…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-402834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}