July 18, 2024

The Country approved to ensure County staff meet with the Task Force, which includes the City of Imperial Beach, San Diego State University School of Public Health, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and other stakeholders to discuss and provide recommendations on coordinated strategies to expand public health mobilization against the Tijuana Sewage Crisis.  

These collaborations include launching a first-of-its-kind Community Health Survey, request zip-code level asthma and respiratory illness data from California Breathing Program and request enhanced water quality testing and enhance communication from agencies such as the San Diego Regional Water Control Board. Prior to the board meeting, Policy Advisor Lauren Cazares and International Business Affairs Coordinator Myriam Mendoza joined Supervisor Lawson-Remer and Mayor Paloma Aguire on a press conference to ask the Board for unanimous support of this proposal.