A major Tijuana pipeline collapse is causing a lot of sewage-tainted water to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
The cross-border flow began Sunday night, and is expected to continue flowing across the border at a rate of more than 30 million gallons a day.
An estimated 49.9 million gallons have already entered the United States.
The big fix for the region’s border sewage problem remains several years away, but that does not mean sewage will flow unabated until then.
Some recent smaller-scale projects are already having an impact on the dry-weather flows coming through the Tijuana River channel. And planning for a large-scale fix continues moving forward.
Plans are underway to build a new section of border wall that will cut through the Tijuana River channel — a concrete culvert where toxic sludge runs into the U.S. and where Border Patrol and caravan migrants violently clashed in 2018.
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