SAN DIEGO ( Border Report ) — The city of San Diego recently placed boulders along a portion of the Tijuana River Valley, where the river goes under Saturn Boulevard, to keep the water from splashing and releasing toxins, gases and the smell into the air.
According to Gabriel Uribe, whose ranch is just south of the river, the effort is falling short.
“The splash is even worse,” Uribe said. “They had an entire crew here for three to four days putting in the boulders, they graded the area, cleaned it up, all they did was put in a few boulders and they made it worse.”
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Uribe says data on his phone, captured daily by a monitor installed on his ranch by researchers studying the pollution in the valley, show things have not gotten better…