Paloma Aguirre plans to leverage her experience in Washington and Mexico to address the crumbling wastewater plant that pollutes South Bay beaches
Paloma Aguirre has fought to clean up the sewage-plagued waters of Imperial Beach for the better part of the last two decades — first as an activist and most recently as the city’s first elected woman of Mexican descent.says her highest priority next year will be working with officials in Baja California to stem the pollution that routinely spills over the border and floats up the coastline.
“I was surfing IB without a wetsuit in the middle of October,” remembered the 45-year-old. “I just fell in love with it. I was like, ‘I want to live here,’ and I never went back.” Elected to the City Council in 2018, Aguirre has a master’s degree in marine biodiversity and conservation from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and briefly worked for Sen. Cory Booker in Washington, D.C.routinely foulsSan Antonio de Los Buenos sewage treatment plant at Punta Bandera discharges partially treated sewage into the ocean.
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