The scenes you will see in this video occur daily near my home in the south bay area of San Diego County, where the Tijuana River flows on its way to the Pacific Ocean carrying over 40 million gallons of stinking-raw sewage every day.
Much of the foamy excrement is washed out to sea, but standing ponds are also formed, increasing the stench.
When I moved with my family to Chula Vista from Orange County three years ago, I learned that the Silver Strand Beach had a history of closures due to sewage flow from Mexico.
We lived about 4 miles from the border, close enough from our hilltop home to see the streets of Tijuana with a good pair of binoculars, but too far away to smell the stink.
A year ago, we moved to place that is an easy walk away from the estuary and the monstrous steel wall that divides America and Mexico.
In about 30 minutes we can walk to the Imperial Beach pier and the spacious spread of white sand that runs under it, but we cannot swim in the ocean because of the sewage.
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