SAN DIEGO—Following 31 years of consecutive extensions of a local state of emergency regarding sewage outflow in the Tijuana River Valley, the San Diego City Council Tuesday approved a resolution asking for a national emergency.
The largely symbolic item passed 7–0, and officially implores the federal government to make the local crisis a recognized national one, as well as asking for total funding of the Environmental Protection Agency’s infrastructure solution to the pollution.
Councilwoman Vivian Moreno, who put forward the resolution and represents San Diego’s southernmost communities such as Nestor, Egger Highlands, San Ysidro, and Otay Mesa, said she feared for the health of her young child during an especially egregious incident amid a recent heat wave….