‘It must be the Imperial Valley’s moment:’ A renewed commitment for the decades-long New River crisis
A year ago, Lee Zeldin, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), visited the Tijuana River, one of the nation’s most polluted rivers, and vowed to act urgently to stop the crisis. Now, the federal agency is committing to bringing the same sense of urgency to another heavily polluted river more than 100 miles east of the San Diego-Mexico border in Imperial Valley. “Our commitment here to you is that we’re here to do the same,” Mike Martucci, acting regional administrator for EPA’s Region 9, said at a recent roundtable in Calexico. The agency and the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) hosted the meeting last month to announce their latest efforts to stop the decades-long, cross-border problem.
Other U.S.-Mexico water news:
- City News Service: County closes Coronado shoreline through North Beach due to pollution
