Under the Dairy Mart Road bridge in San Diego
Under the Dairy Mart Road bridge in San Diego. / Photograph courtesy of the International Boundary and Water Committee

Water from a mini-tempest on Feb. xv is yet gushing through the Tijuana River, despite rainfall totals of but over one-half an inch that mean solar day. That'south not due to a break in any part of the crumbling cross-border sewage system. Information technology's because any water spilled into the northerly-flowing river's ane,750-foursquare-mile watershed eventually empties out through that small river rima oris just south of the Regal Beach pier.

Over one.34 billion gallons of stormwater (often mixed with raw sewage that makes its style into the river) has made its way to the Pacific Ocean since that storm. And it'due south still flowing, wrote Morgan Rogers, manager of operations at the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, in a report Wednesday.

Some other tour of rain is slated to begin late Thursday, which means the Tijuana River will one time over again swell with rain, mud and whatever else finds its fashion into the water body.

Even so, usually every time there is a storm, a key pump in Tijuana, which also helps divert some of that untreated river water and trash from spilling into the U.S. untreated, is switched off by Mexican authorities. That's merely considering there's too much h2o for that system to handle anyway, and partly why then much water makes its way into the river.

The Tijuana River is a seasonally-dry river, pregnant information technology typically flows only during the rainy winter season. But before this yr, a mysterious problem acquired untreated sewage to bypass the cross-border handling plant and spill freely into the riverbed for 25 days. That spill has since stopped, merely information technology revealed a trouble with a key piece of infrastructure on the U.S. side of the treatment found: A pair of gates have been stuck open for years, pregnant the U.S. couldn't control the flow of sewage to its found in the first place.

At present, the International Purlieus and Water Commission has the coin to fix it. Lori Kuczmanski, a spokeswoman for the bureau, confirmed the committee will begin to procure the proper equipment to repair the broken valve this calendar month and, hopefully, information technology'll be fixed by March of next year.

Learn more nigh the Tijuana River crunch and read our previous reporting here.

Primal Balboa Park Group Hires New Leader

Inspiration Point in Balboa Park / Photo by Adriana Heldiz

Balboa Park's largest philanthropic group will soon have a new CEO.

Forever Balboa Park, the group that resulted from a merger of the Balboa Park Salvation and the Friends of Balboa Park, announced Wednesday that information technology has hired the dean of education for the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to helm the organisation supporters have long hoped could serve as a leader and philanthropic force for Balboa Park.

Elizabeth Babcock, a seasoned fundraiser, at present oversees the San Francisco museum and research institution's educational programs and a $13 million budget. She is ready to take the Balboa Park post next month.

Equally the Marriage-Tribune reports, Babcock will be focused on fundraising for Forever Balboa Park's $5 one thousand thousand share of the $21.v million restoration of the park's much-photographed Botanical Edifice. She will also exist tasked with helping finalize a long-envisioned memorandum of understanding the organisation is now negotiating with the city that would allow the nonprofit to handle park improvements.

More than a decade ago, urban center leaders and philanthropists founded the Balboa Park Conservancy with a vision to help address the crumbling crown jewel's myriad problems. Park insiders accept long raised concerns about the lack of clear leadership on park problems, duplication of efforts and overhead among various Balboa Park groups and struggles to execute major park initiatives and projects.

The Conservancy and the Friends of Balboa Park merged final year with the goal of doing more to address park needs together.

In Other News

  • The urban center of San Diego has to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to comprehend four metropolis labor unions' attorney fees after their successful undoing of a 2012 ballot measure out that would have wiped out pension funds for all new hires except police force officers. That'due south on peak of the at least $80 million the city has to pay for retroactive pensions and court-ordered penalties after a judge ruled the city should have negotiated the details of Proffer B with unions earlier placing information technology on the ballot. (Union-Tribune)
  • North County residents can see fume from a 600-acre wildfire burning in the Cleveland National Woods, which spans both San Diego and Orange counties. Firefighters had even so to contain the burn down by Midweek afternoon, reports Play a joke on 5.
  • Teachers at Bayside STEAM Academy in Majestic Beach merits they were being recorded by a hidden cell phone in a women-only staff bathroom and filed complaints with the country Department of Fair Employment and Housing. (NBC 7)
  • San Diego police are reporting an uptick in homicides compared to the terminal two months of 2021 peculiarly in the Mountain View and Mount Hope neighborhoods and are asking for the public'due south help with unsolved murders. (Union-Tribune)
  • Some on San Diego County's Man Relations Commission, formed to discuss matters of equity and racial justice, are denouncing a fellow commission member for what they say were disparaging remarks about transgender people. Commissioner Dennis Hodges, a nondenominational Christian pastor, refused to resign despite colleagues calling on the County Lath of Supervisors to remove him. (Marriage-Tribune)
  • Pelting and cold conditions will creep into San Diego late Th into Fri with potential snow heading for the mountains. (NBC 7)
  • San Diego State Academy faculty voted to nix the inclusion of a message acknowledging the land on which the university sits once belonged to the Kumeyaay ethnic tribe in their class syllabi. A civil rights group had complained the requirement to include such a message violated the Get-go Amendment rights of teachers. (Union-Tribune)

This Morning Report was written past MacKenzie Elmer, Lisa Halverstadt and Will Huntsberry. It was edited by Megan Wood.