Veolia Water North America-West-West, the federal government entrepreneur responsible for maintaining his wastewater treatment plant on the American-Mexican border, is the subject of a new trial alleging the fact of not containing wastewater.
On Monday, the Coronado Unified School District continued the factory operator and its director, Mark Wippler, marking the first time that a school district joined local municipalities, environmental groups and owners who continue and previously pursue the international engineering company and the federal government.
Frantz Law Group, based in San Diego, which opened a mass crime case at the end of last year for similar allegations, represents the school district. It is not known if other South County school districts can join or follow the plunge.
Coronado Unified alleys in its 29 -page complaint that “the negligent and reckless exploitation of Veolia of the international water treatment plant of South Bay allowed repeated discharges of untreated wastewater to the Pacific Ocean, which reach the shores of Coronado.
The district argues that students, teachers and others were exposed “to harmful smoke and smells in their homes and communities for a long time”.
The district requires damages for the costs he said he has spent on “the medical treatment of students and teachers, advice for the fear of students in terms of future physical injuries, sufficient costs to cover the need for medical follow-up and physical injuries to real and personal property and other economic damage.”
Coronado Unified, which serves more than 2,700 students in his five schools, says that students and teachers suffered from headache, embraces, dizzy spells, asthma, nausea, breathing difficulties, spicy eyes and “other damage that is not yet known”.
In a statement on Tuesday, Veolia acknowledged that residents of the County South “are deeply affected by uncontrolled wastewater from Tijuana crossing the border.” But denied blame, saying that Mexico is the source of pollution and not of the treatment plant.
“The complainants in this case would be better served if their lawyers continued the source of the problem instead of the company trying to solve it,” said Veolia. “The affirmations of this trial are moved, and local workers’ workers of Veolia do not deserve to be blamed for the failures of the Mexican government.”
Veolia and the American Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) direct the South Bay treatment plant based in San Ysidro which serves as a safety net for tijuana wastewater. The IBWC is the federal agency responsible for managing the South Bay factory and working with its Mexican counterparts to repair the wastewater crisis.
The factory is supposed to treat 25 million gallons of wastewater from the Mexican city and send flows to the ocean. But years of underinvestment in the infrastructure on both sides of the border have led to toxic coherent flows that spill on the border. The historical volumes of waste and sedimentation from unknown sources in Mexico in recent years have also compromised the repair efforts of the IBWC.
Projects to connect the sewer system that leaks from Tijuana is being on both sides of the border, although some have been faced with delays of one month and others are years of completion.
At the end of last month, Veolia paid prosecution for $ 53 million that allegedly allegedly with a lead contaminated with Flint, Michigan, 10 years ago.
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