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With sewage gushing into sea, US and Mexican border towns plead for help

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Millions of gallons of sewage flow into the Pacific Ocean just south of the U.S.-Mexican border.

Millions more gallons of treated and untreated sewage trickle down the Tijuana River and into the sea.

The International Wastewater Treatment Plant , an overworked and underfunded plant, has buckled under increased volume.

The Mexican state of Baja California says the most crucial repairs to Tijuana 's battered sewage infrastructure will be completed soon after.

50 million gallons per day of sewage-contaminated water flows from the Tijuana River toward Imperial Beach .

Governor Marina del Pilar Avila , elected in 2021 , made sewage repairs a priority.

"We're going to fix it, and we are fixing it," Honold said.

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