Is the Tijuana River poisoning residents in San Diego County?

The Tijuana River should not be flowing this time of year. But throughout the dry season, it has — delivering millions of gallons a day of an unnatural mix of water, neon green sewage and industrial waste from Tijuana through the city of Imperial Beach to the Pacific Ocean.

While the Imperial Beach shoreline just reopened last weekend, the Tijuana River shoreline has remained closed for more than 1,000 days because of ocean bacteria levels that are a hundred times higher than safe amounts. The stench of rotting eggs after dark is overwhelming for south San Diego residents, keeping some awake all night.

Pollution in the river has been an entrenched environmental crisis for decades, with all sides pointing fingers at one another.

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