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liv golf Star Phil Mickelson responded on social media as local California lawmakers spoke about millions of gallons of sewage dumped in water near San Diego from Mexico.
San Diego County District 5 supervisor Jim Desmond spoke at a recent meeting on the beaches around the historic Hotel Dell, which are closed over Memorial Day weekend. He also said that Navy seals and other towns were affected. Sewage crisis From Mexico.
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Desmond said at the meeting that the only solution is for Mexico to build and maintain treatment facilities.
“The beach near Hotel Dell has been closed as Mexico dumps up to 10 million gallons of sewage every day over Memorial Day weekend,” Desmond added to X on Tuesday. “Our naval seals are getting sick. Imperial Beach has been closed for the third year in a row. We have paid 80% to treat Mexico’s sewage, ignored decades of agreements, and did nothing to fix our infrastructure.
“I have introduced common sense suggestions to apply pressures, including limiting border activities in health emergencies until Mexico is held responsible. Unfortunately, my colleagues don’t want to put pressure on Mexico.
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We are the Mexican sewage gushing into the waters of Navy Seal Training.”
Mickelson seemed to be bringing to this issue as well.
“Something about this doesn’t smell right,” he wrote in response to Desmond’s post.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin I said last month The US and Mexico were on the verge of trading on sewage issues.
“This week, the EPA told Mexico a “100% solution” to permanently end the decades-old sewage crisis that flows from Mexico to the United States. Next, the technology groups from both countries will work through the details necessary to reach an emergency agreement,” Zeldin wrote in X in May.
Zeldin visited San Diego in April, where he announced consultations with Mexican government counterparts, ending decades of issues. The issue has denounced obsolete wastewater infrastructure for decades, but has spiraled in recent years as Tijuana’s population has skyrocketed.
Tijuana, Mexico, Top, San Diego (Getty Images)
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In February, Department of Defense inspectors issued a report that between January 2019 and May 2023, Naval Special Warfare Center reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal disease among candidates for seals between January 2019 and May 2023, resulting from contaminated water.
Emma Colton from Fox News contributed to this report.
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