Blurred Borders - International Community Foundation

What is still lacking are strong recommendations for on-the-ground action that can be
supported financially and through advocacy by philanthropic civic leaders, municipal and state
authorities, federal agencies, and individual community leaders in San Diego and Tijuana. We
propose the following:
• Improve sewer infrastructure and sewage treatment capacity in both San Diego and
Tijuana
• Continue citizen participation in water quality monitoring on both sides of the
border
• Reduce concrete channelization in the Tijuana River Watershed and support the
Tecate River Park and the Alamar River Park concept
• Promote more actively a shared airshed approach to managing air pollution in the
San Diego-Tijuana region through the Binational Air Quality Alliance
• Consider airshed-based emissions caps and mitigation programs that protect intact
wildlands in Mexico
• Use federal funding to support further research for a binational conservation area
that incorporates cross-border wildlife corridors
• Address the solid waste (especially used tires) challenge in Tijuana
• Clean up Metales y Derivados, Pacífico and other abandoned hazardous waste sites
• Expand binational environmental education programs such as PROBEA and Wyland
Ocean Challenge in local schools and communities
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