Four beaches have closed, some multiple times, in San Diego County this year due to pollution associated with the Tijuana River, according to the California State Water Resources Control Board.
Three of those beaches closed a combined 25 times last year due to the same reason, according to the agency.
But efforts to reduce pollution by the U.S.-Mexico border water treatment facility—called the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant—is expected to result in improvements in the coming years, according to Angela Howe, a senior legal director of the Surfrider Foundation, a San Clemente-based nonprofit which bills itself as an organization dedicated to the protection of the world’s oceans and beaches….