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Article: Tijuana River Cleanup On Track, Hill Is Told
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- The Washington Post
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- April 14, 1994
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A massive project to halt the flow of raw sewage from Mexico
into San Diego - widely viewed as a test of whether the North
American Free Trade Agreement can improve environmental cooperation
between the United States and Mexico - will be in place by 1995,
Clinton administration officials told a House panel yesterday.
The White House last fall approved a $239 million facility
to treat human and other waste that Mexicans routinely discharge
into the Tijuana River, but construction has not yet started. The
waste, containing heavy amounts of lead, cyanide and other
contaminants, is dumped at an average rate of 20 million gallons a
day. The water runs through parts of San Diego, causing a ...