Opinion: How can EPA care more about minor sewage woes in San Francisco than disaster in San Diego? [Opinion]
on the South Bay sewage nightmare in June and complain so loudly and uniformly that the federal government’s response has been woefully inadequate. But any inclination to start handing out kudos should be tempered by a reality that in retrospect seems unfathomable: For years, many of these same leaders essentially accepted broken Tijuana sewage infrastructure constantly fouling our coast from the Mexican border to Coronado.
Raw waste has closed local beaches at least 100 days a year, sickening swimmers and surfers, since 2010. From that point on, the problem could have been readily fixed with the same can-do approach that has led for decades to rapid repairs of roads and bridges damaged in natural and man-made disasters, most recently to a section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia thattwo months ago.
The 1972 passage of the landmark Clean Water Act established a fundamental principle: the federal government must “protect and restore” vital waterways. Using this law, the EPA has a long history of stepping in when local or state governments don’t live up to their clean-water responsibilities. In 2016, it accused San Francisco of poor management of its sewage facilities.
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