‘The pollution hides itself’: Tijuana River sewage travels underwater before polluting air in La Jolla, study finds
The sewage-tainted water from the Tijuana River is traveling further north than previously suspected, suggesting communities beyond Imperial Beach may face potential health risks, according to a new study. University of California Riverside researchers, in cooperation with scientists from University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, discovered that the polluted water from the U.S.-Mexico border can flow roughly 22 miles up the San Diego County coast before releasing pollutants in the air near the pier at Scripps in La Jolla. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, found that wastewater chemicals unable to survive that distance in the air instead remained in the ocean. Currents then carried them north before they escaped into the atmosphere near the pier.
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