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Calexico mayor asks state to sustain funding and attention for New River, warns Salton Sea dust spreads beyond Imperial County
Summary
Calexico Mayor Diana Nuri Combo asked the State Water Resources Control Board to keep Imperial County visible in state planning and to continue using bond funds to address New River pollution and worsening Salton Sea dust impacts that she said now travel as far as Los Angeles.
Diana Nuri Combo, mayor of Calexico, told the State Water Resources Control Board on Sept. 16 that pollution in the New River — a 60-mile waterway the mayor described as “one of the most severely polluted rivers in the United States” — creates upstream contamination that reaches the Salton Sea and contributes to airborne toxic dust when the lakebed evaporates.
Combo said the New River carries agricultural drainage, industrial waste, garbage and raw sewage through Calexico and Imperial County and that those contaminants are…
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