Mexico's Sending More Sewage Across the Border

It's Becoming a Big U.S. National Security Issue.

(On my first trip to CA with my wife, who is from Carlsbad, I wanted to stop by several of the seafood restaurants that are all over the place. My wife, will not eat seafood of any kind except for canned tuna. She grew up there and said that you don’t want to eat seafood at any of the restaurants in south, and I mean very southern CA. The seafood may not be bad but the ‘surfer dudes’ who work at all those restaurants refuse to observe the “No Swimming - Sewage Contaminated Water” warning signs posted at the beach. They live to surf. The hepatitis rate among surfers is outrageous. They cook in a lot of restaurants or wash the dishes or set the tables or bring you your food. Hell NO.)

 

The decades-long problem of Mexico sending its raw sewage gushing into the Tijuana River and polluting the beaches of the U.S. has grown worse in the past few years with the huge population growth in Tijuana, Mexico. But now it’s affecting America’s national security interests, and shit just got real.
The Mexican sewage problem has been a five-alarm issue since before then-Imperial Beach Mayor Brian Bilbray hopped aboard a bulldozer and created a berm to stop the river from flowing into an environmentally delicate area. When the cops came to stop him and the protest surrounding it, he said he’d be back with a permit to finish the job, but it’s 40 years later and the problem remains.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is up to his neck in excuses from the Mexican government, though $650 million has been designated to deal with this issue.
“There’s no way that we are going to stand before the people of California and ask them to have more patience and just bear with all of us as we go through the next 10 or 20 or 30 years of being stuck in 12 feet of raw sewage and not getting anywhere,” he said. “So we are all out of patience.”
Few people had the idea that the Mexican sewage pollution problem would grow so bad that American national security would be imperiled, but here we are.
An Inspector General’s Report entitled "Naval Special Warfare Command Should Relocate, Reschedule, or Cancel Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Candidate Water Training When Water Bacteria Levels Exceed State Safety Standards" instructed the SEAL Team commanders to move their water training away from Coronado during high contamination periods.
The IG’s report, released in February, confirmed that hundreds of Navy SEAL candidates were sickened by the contaminated water in which they were forced to train in nearby Coronado.
Almost all SEAL training is done on the beach or in the water. And the water is often disgusting.
SEAL Team training is called BUDS, which stands for Basic Underwater Demolition. The training consists of daily ocean swims, surf passage with inflatable boats, scuba diving, long distance dives, and “hydrographic surveys.”
The Inspector General’s report noted that, “Naval Special Warfare (NSW) will have a challenge canceling or relocating 75 percent of their water training activities. Practically speaking, NSW operators would require systems or protocols that would enable them to both train and operate while managing preventable risk.”
The last five weeks of training is on San Clemente Island, but some activities occasionally have been moved to Oceanside off Camp Pendleton, but where are they supposed to go if the water’s so disgusting it makes them sick for the rest of the training?

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