Tijuana Sewage Spill Closes Beaches

Tijuana Sewage Spill Closes Border Beaches

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

By John Rosman

Ultimately this Article is based off the re occurring event, Oil Spills. Oil spills are one of the messiest impacts on our environment and pose a threat to everything around it. The animals are impacted widely, among the contamination of the water in it of itself oil spills are beyond messy and damaging.  This particular Oil Spill was located in Tijuana, and resulted in the closing of all beaches in the area near the Oil Spill. They reported the spill to be up to 100,000 gallons of oil. Unfortunately oil spills are not “surprising” and other rivers and water areas that were not previously cleaned had an effect on Tijuana’s current Oil Spill that resulted in closure of beaches. Possible solutions would be finding machinery that would help progress the process of cleaning up faster, or having a better watch on the Oil Companies to prevent future Oil Spills. The barriers to these solutions are ultimately money, time, and effort. Money is an issue in which is parallel to the heavy machinery needed in wanting to clean up the oil spills fast and efficiently. Time and effort are a catalyst in the basic reaction of being careful at the oil company’s, keeping eye on them, and making sure mistakes are not made that result in the Oil Spills. My opinion is that they need to care more about their environment, and need to know the negative aspects that tag along with Oil Spills.

Here’s an eerie video of beach goers swimming and fishing despite the spill:Video http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/mar/20/tijuana-sewage-spill-closes-border-beaches/

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Above: Sewage and polluted runoff has been flowing out of Mexico and to the South Bay coastline for months due to the winter's rains.