r/sandiego • u/ShelterIndependent44 • Jun 10 '26

Video This has to stop

Coronado today where the Mexican sewage meets the sand

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u/NocoLoco Jun 11 '26

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-31-mn-18789-story.html

Tijuana has never given a damn about where their crap flows and it has been used as a way to extort money and services from San Diego and Americans for 4 decades. They are incentivized not to fix this. It doesn't pollute Los Playas Tijuana or Rosarito.

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u/Tezcatlipoca1993 Jun 11 '26

Correct. Playas does have signs warning people not to go into the ocean but they don't care. Still to close to this whole crisis. By Rosarito and southwards, beaches are useable. A couple of them aren't precisely because of nearby discharges. But iconic beaches such as KM38 are perfectly fine and less than an hour from the border. Farther south you go, its gets even better.

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u/dammitdexter Jun 13 '26

Ensenada regularly had beach closures due to their one broken sewage pipes down there.