After decades of pollution and years of beach closures caused by raw sewage in the Tijuana River, San Diego County Supervisors are pursuing a local plan to divert the river and treat it directly. They’re calling for the county to design a new treatment plant to capture and clean contaminated water before it enters San Diego communities, using potential local tax revenue to back nearly a billion dollars worth of bonds to build it. … The supervisors called for spending $1.8 million to design a system to divert and treat the river water. They also proposed $4 million to immediately fix a sewage hot spot on Saturn Boulevard, where river pollution becomes aerosolized. The board will vote on the plan Tuesday.

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• Coronado Times (Calif.): Done waiting on feds and Mexico, supervisors seek $5.8 million in county funds for sewage crisis
• CBS8 (San Diego): San Diego County supervisors propose new sewage treatment system to combat Tijuana River pollution crisis
• FOX5 (San Diego): San Diego proposes new plant for Tijuana River sewage