Save the date! CHS stop the Sewage Club Community Forum | Coronado Island News

The Stop The Sewage Club of the Coronado High School met last Thursday with the environmental health of the district of San Diego to find out about the test protocols and science behind the water tests, in which our beach waters have been used due to contamination from cross -border waste water and why the district must be used for more instant to use. The County of San Diego uses the digital droplet polymerase chain reaction (DDPCR) to test beach water for bacterial levels. DDPCR is a DNA-based method that achieves faster results than the previous cultivation method. The DDPCR test is a new, more sensitive method for analyzing beach water quality, the contamination better, wider and faster than older methods. This enables the district of Environmental Health of the district to spend faster consultations/closures faster and to remove it faster, which means that the public is collected about water quality on the same day on which samples are collected.

Pupils and teachers who were present learned about current schedules to repair our US plant, since the repairs and the expansion of the US side are finally financed and progress.

Mark Frilles and Romina Schiess presented San Diego County on behalf of the scientific environmental service department. The presentation included information on the International Grennwater Commission and its Mexican counterpart, its minute 328 Agreement and the current status of the reconstruction of the infrastructure in both Mexico and in the United States' international water treatment plant in San Ysidro. While progress is slow, it continues with a timeline of five to seven years. With the new Mexico treatment plant, which will come online at some point this summer, our beaches may recognize a temporary relief in the summer months. Stop the Sewage Club mentor, Laura Wilkinson Sinton, shared the updates of the planned workshops for public policy for letter letters and planned representative trips so that club members can fly to Sacramento. Senator Padilla, SB 10, will experience a new state law that enables future cross-border stress to finance IBWC prevention maintenance and measures to ensure that Coronado's beaches will be protected in the future.

Danny Vinegrad and Sean Wilbur, the club's co-directors, plan to organize a community forum led by students on April 23 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to inform the municipality about our beach water quality and the effects of cross-border wastewater problem on our community. Spokesman for UCSD and SDSU, environmental health in San Diego County and supporters of the cross -border pollution coalition, IBWC and more will all take part in this community forum to help the residents of Coronado understand and what we can do to advance the progress for our esteemed beaches.

Find details and updates in the free Community forum in the next Eagle & Journal.

Vol. 115, No. 9 – 26 February 2025