Sign the Public Petition & Notify Local Government

Dec 2018

Save Imperial Beach | Stop Sewage Dumping


PETITION: As a citizen and resident of the San Diego border communities I ask for the postponement of funding and for a complete public investigation into the EPA San Francisco project known as USMCA Comprehensive plan. If allowed to be implemented by the EPA this plan will bring 400% more Mexican Sewage to be dumped off Imperial Beach, Coronado, and The Silver Strand which will pollute our multi-million-dollar Navy Seal Team facilities and place permanent ponds of dangerous Mexican sewage near San DiegoCounty residences and businesses.   IT IS UNACCEPTALBE that the EPA would intentionally spend hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to intentionally bring 400% more Mexican sewage to pond next to our homes and add that sewage to the ocean thus expanding a health problem.  Our beaches have been closed for more than 800 days.  This is having a serious economic impact on Imperial Beach and Coronado and depriving residents of Chula Vista, National City, Otay-Mesa and San Ysidro of nearby beach recreation opportunities.  It has a negative impact on the equestrian and agricultural businesses in the Tijuana River Valley.  Our Border Patrol agents are negatively impacted by this on-going sewage health problem and the associated stench.     This is not what the EPA told the public, and I ask for this postponement and investigation of the EPA Record of Decisionbecause of the intentional misinformation of facts by the EPA and the California State EPA (Cal-EPA).  Many homeowners and citizens like me were shocked when suddenly the EPA (Arardis Plan 2020) was replaced by the USMCA Comprehensive Plan. This change in plans was without proper public disclosure, vetting or scientific testing.Additionally, the USMCA Plan had an expedited schedule for approval which does not allow for proper environmental impacts or thorough investigation of sewage dumping into the ocean.   We would like a clear understanding why the EPA (Arcadis 2020) Investigation plan which was developed and publicly vetted from 2017 through 2020 was replaced overnight with the USMCA Comprehensive Plan. Why did our Federal EPA leadership allowGovernor Gavin Newson to replace the plan intentionally byincorporating the California Senate State Bill 507 which advocates dumping 400% more Mexican sewage into US Territorial waters?   Please help prevent this waste of funding and explain why the United State EPA would intentionally bring more sewage and pollution to its citizens’ doorsteps.  Our beaches have been closed for more than 800 days, PLEASE HELP US!