County approves $5.8 million to plan its own fix for Tijuana sewage crisis
The $5.8 million San Diego County supervisors approved Sept. 1 for the Tijuana Sewage Crisis won’t build a sewage treatment plant. It funds design and engineering work — the first step, supervisors say, before the county can chase the hundreds of millions of dollars an actual fix will cost. Supervisors approved the funding in a 4-1 vote, framing it as San Diego’s answer to decades of waiting on Mexico and the federal government, according to its champions, Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and Paloma Aguirre. The money will fund design for a permanent box culvert fix at Saturn Boulevard and engineering work on a capture and cleanup system that Aguirre described as the first infrastructure the county would build to capture and treat river flows directly, on U.S. soil.
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