New River. Again

Decrevi · Posted: 25 Feb 2006 12:58 AM Post subject: New River. Again

I think that I have seen, read, about the New River Puke

enough to come to a conclusion. Forget about the PORTS, the attack is coming from Mexico and Calexico is on the front line. If Alaska can get mega $$$$$ , so can Calexico.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-river24feb24,0,7820616.story?coll=la-home-headlines

From the Los Angeles Times
Clash Brews Over Tainted Waters
Imperial County authorities are angry over claims made by an L.A.-based agency for control over the New and Alamo rivers.
By Tony Perry
Times Staff Writer

February 24, 2006

CALEXICO — If ever you doubted the dictum often attributed to Mark Twain that in the West whiskey is for drinking but water is for fighting over, the New River stands as proof.

Long branded the dirtiest river in America, this aquatic nightmare slithers into the United States from Mexico through this border city in the Imperial Valley.

Technically, it is not a river but a ditch carrying drainage water the color of pea soup that brims with sewage, animal carcasses and industrial waste from Mexicali. This toxic stew contains bacteria and viruses known to cause tuberculosis, polio, hepatitis and typhoid.

Drug smugglers and illegal immigrants use the smelly, sudsy river as an illicit entryway to the United States, confident that U.S. Border Patrol agents will not pursue them into the murky water.

When divers from the Imperial County Sheriff's Department need to retrieve a drowned body from the river, they don hazardous-materials suits.

Surely no one would fight for ownership of what one county health official has called "a rattlesnake in our backyard."

Wrong.

This is California. If there is water, even filthy water, there are lawyers and politicians arguing over who owns it.

The Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has its eye on the New River and another local waterway in Imperial Valley, the Alamo River...

TsutchiEsMaximus · Posted: 25 Feb 2006 11:14 AM Post subject:

I say let anyone who wants is ...can take it.....passed by there the other day andhappned to glance....and there's like yellow "espuma" jsut forming out of the water and it smells so bad it should have it's own category ... Puke

Encanto · Posted: 28 Feb 2006 09:39 AM Post subject:

if the alamo and new rivers would be given rights of ownership to this L.A. based water company, this would mean both of them rivers would be cleaned from all the pollutants and the salton sea would clear up. then this company would take salton sea water, right? if the feds and the state and less imperial county and the city of calex havent been able to clean up the new river then who will? it is something to consider. correct me if im wrong, are i.v. iid peeps not approving of this? they've been struggling for a long time with the new river. i guess valley residents stance on this is they will steal our water so lets settle with our filthy rivers, its all ours. de todos modos its only calexico west side residents (grant st neighborhoods) that have to deal with that stench. leave la garra smelling the rio conca (concagada) or the rio nilo (nilo huelas).

elchrist · Posted: 28 Feb 2006 09:59 AM Post subject:

superplayer · Posted: 22 Mar 2006 08:17 AM Post subject: Re: New River. Again