"Residents of Imperial Beach in southern San Diego County filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the operators of an international wastewater treatment plant — alleging that the site has failed to contain a cross-border crisis that has long contaminated their community.
The plaintiffs said they are seeking to hold the plant’s managers accountable for severe environmental and public health effects that have resulted from an influx of untreated sewage, heavy metals and other toxic chemicals.
Imperial Beach, which sits just a few miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, has long been the recipient of untreated wastewater that comes from the Tijuana metropolitan region and ends up on the beaches of San Diego County.
Residents represented by law firm Singleton Schreiber filed Tuesday’s lawsuit against Veolia Water Operating Services, Veolia Water North America-West and Mark Wippler, an employee of Veolia. The company operates the border-adjacent South Bay International Water Treatment Plant, which treats some of Tijuana’s sewage stateside and is owned by the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC)."
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