SAN DIEGO–The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health has lifted the water contact closure for the Imperial Beach shoreline.  Recent water quality testing confirms that Tijuana River flows are no longer impacting these beaches. This area was recently closed to water contact due to sewage-contaminated flows from the Tijuana River entering the United States.  […]

SAN DIEGO–Testing confirms water quality along the Imperial Beach shoreline meets State health standards following recent Tijuana River sewage impacts. The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health has lifted the water contact closure for the Imperial Beach shoreline. Recent water quality testing confirms that Tijuana River flows are no longer impacting these beaches. The […]

IMPERIAL BEACH–A man and a woman were hospitalized in connection with a physical altercation with other people early Saturday morning in Imperial Beach, according to Imperial Beach Sheriff’s Department. Deputies responded to a call shortly  after 4:30 a.m. for service of two possible gunshots along the 700 block of Seacoast Drive. While checking the area […]

IMPERIAL BEACH–The Department of Environmental Health has lifted the water contact closure for the Silver Strand shoreline.  This includes the beach-line north of Imperial Beach through Avenida Lunar in Coronado. Recent water quality testing and field observations conducted by Environmental Health confirm that Tijuana River flows are no longer impacting these beaches. This area was […]

SAN DIEGO–The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health has issued a general rain advisory to avoid water contact at all coastal beaches and bays due to recent rainfall.  A beach closure will remain in place for the ocean shoreline of Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge and Border Field State Park due to sewage-contaminated flows […]

SAN YSIDRO–The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of a 10-year construction project at the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry (LPOE).   The $741 million project expanded and renovated the 50-acre San Diego-Tijuana region complex that is the busiest land border […]

SAN DIEGO–U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the Tecate cargo facility seized over 2,400 pounds of marijuana in a shipment of wood furniture. On Dec. 10, at about 10:30 a.m., a 25-year-old male Mexican citizen entered the port of entry driving a white bobtail truck with cargo manifested as wood furniture. The CBP […]

SAN DIEGO–The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health has lifted the water contact closure for the Imperial Beach, Silver Strand and Coronado shorelines. This includes beaches from the south end of Seacoast Drive in Imperial Beach north through Coronado. Recent water quality testing confirms that Tijuana River flows are no longer impacting these beaches. […]

SAN DIEGO–The County of San Diego Department of Environmental Health has extended the existing water contact closure area at the Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge and Imperial Beach shorelines north to include the Silver Strand shoreline.  Sewage-contaminated runoff in the Tijuana River has been entering the Tijuana Estuary as a result of recent rainfall. Observations […]

SAN DIEGO-The County of San Diego Department of Environmental Health has extended the existing water contact closure area at the Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge shoreline north to include the Imperial Beach shoreline. Sewage-contaminated runoff in the Tijuana River has been entering the Tijuana Estuary as a result of recent rainfall. Observations indicate contamination of […]