This past rainy season, a trash boom in the Tijuana River kept 500 tons of plastics, trash and other debris away from the Tijuana River Valley and the Pacific Ocean, far exceeding expectations. On Tuesday morning, Oscar Romo, director of Alter Terra, the non-profit in charge of the boom, gave a tour of the area to members of the Rural Community Assistance Partnership, one of the agencies that helped secure funding for the trash boom. … For the time being, the boom has been dismantled but will be reassembled and operational in a few months. “RCAP was funded through the California State Water Board to have the booms, deploy them for two storm seasons,” [Rural Community Assistance Partnership Community Programs Director Jennifer] Hazard said. “We were able to extend that to a third storm season.”