U.S. and Mexican officials are working to fix two broken sewer pipes, but a resolution is not expected anytime soon.
The U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission is working with Mexico to repair the pipes. The U.S. agency has loaned Mexico equipment and is working to find fill to fix the erosion in the canyon.
“I’d say we’re still trying to figure out what the scope of work is and the schedule,” said Morgan Rogers, the area operations manager for the International Boundary and Water Commission."It could be a matter of this weekend or it could be a week later.” U.S. officials got the first hint of a problem this past Saturday, when flows from the pipeline break overwhelmed the canyon collector in Smuggler’s Gulch. That collector was shut down to keep sediment out of its pipes. It is operating again.
The situation forced Mexican officials to shut down a pump station in the Tijuana River channel, leading to cross-border flows that top 30 million gallons a day.Most of that was run through the sewage treatment plan just north of the international border. “The South Bay International Treatment plant is taking more flow than it was designed for,” said Rogers. “It’s designed and permitted for 25 million gallons per day. Over the past few days we’ve been averaging about 35.”That means the treated water pumped into an ocean outfall and released three miles from shore is not as clean as it should be.
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