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Nov. 19, 2024

San Diego residents sue water treatment operator over sewage spills

The lawsuit claims the treatment plant has logged over 500 illegal discharge incidents since 2018, releasing more than one billion gallons of raw sewage into the Tijuana River.

Four San Diego County residents accused a water treatment company of exposing thousands of people to toxic waste and raw sewage. The lawsuit is the latest skirmish over the untreated sewer waste being dumped into the ocean near the Mexican border.

"The residents of Imperial Beach are tired of hearing decades-old 'broken promises' from a company knowingly dumping billions of gallons of raw sewage on their beaches and in their estuary," said James P. Frantz, CEO o...

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