Thread: AZ: Tunnel hits sewage line near Mexico-U.S. border

Tunnel hits sewage line near Mexico-U.S. border
October 11, 2010 10:15 p.m. EDT

Line carries 9.9 million gallons of sewage
It's unclear how much has leaked

Suspected drug smugglers digging a tunnel across the Mexico-U.S. border hit a sewage line near Arizona, an official with Arizona's Nogales Utility said Monday night.

The 30-inch line, located on the Mexican side of the border, runs north and picks up raw sewage from Mexico, carrying about 9.9 million gallons of it a day, said Utility Director Flavio Gonzales.

Gonzales was concerned that if the pipe isn't fixed soon, the sewage could back up on the U.S. side of the border.

"We can't plug it off here so we are working with Mexico guys to plug it off there -- that way we don't get raw sewage backing up on our streets," he said.

It wasn't clear whether the line had been cracked or completely broken. Officials were trying to determine how much had leaked so far, Gonzales said.

www.cnn.com

Related:
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-214947-sewage.html

This post stinks Jean!!! LOL




What a bunch of maroons! Hope they were covered in the mess.

So Mexico dumping its excrement here in the U.S.? There’s nothing new in this story...

This is actually pretty scary. Mexico doesn't have good environmental laws and God knows what might be in their sewage!
In Juarez, they dump WHATEVER in their dumps. To include hospital waste.
A while back some man was digging through things to salvage at the dump and came into contact with some kind of green slime from a hospital which turned out to be some horrific something that actually killed the man a week or so later.
They allow open burning of things in their dumps and in neighborhoods. In the winter, those of us in El Paso that live close to the border suffer from endless upper respiratory things from all the toxic smoke that wafts across.

Maybe they will hit a gas line next. LOL

Why not just pour concrete into it and seal it off here? Let mexico take care of its own problems for once!

The 1992 explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city, took place on April 22, 1992 in the downtown district of Analco. Numerous gasoline explosions in the sewer system over four hours destroyed kilometers of streets. Officially, 206 people were killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 were left homeless.