An existing water contact closure impacting the Tijuana Slough shoreline in San Diego County has been extended to include the shoreline in Imperial Beach
A water contact closure for the Imperial Beach and Tijuana Slough shorelines in San Diego County due to sewage-contaminated water has been lifted after testing.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – San Diego County’s environmental health department closed the San Diego Tijuana Slough shoreline in southern San Diego County Thursday, cautioning people against coming into contact with the ocean water.
The Tijuana River enters San Diego County from Mexico and flows through the southernmost part of the county before it empties into the Pacific Ocean.
Sewage-contaminated runoff that enters the river in Mexico may be moving north along the San Diego County shoreline, according to a statement Thursday from the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health and Quality.
The “water contact closure” issued Thursday covers the ocean shoreline at Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge and Border Field State Park and results from bacterial counts in samples taken by the county exceeding California health standards.
Sewage runoff closes South Bay beaches again
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Lenny Ignelzi
FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2007, file photo, the beaches adjacent to the Tijuana Estuary. Officials in California are crying foul after more than 140 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Tijuana River in Mexico and flowed into the U.S. for more than two weeks. A report released Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, by the International Boundary and Water Commission says the spill was caused Feb. 2 by an apparent rupture in a sewage collector pipe and wasn t contained until Thursday. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
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