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08/28/2025

-1.1 years

Infrastructure09/24/2026@BuildDesk

South Bay Sewage Plant Reaches 35 Million Gallons a Day in 100 Days

International Boundary and Water CommissionSouth Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tijuana River Valley, San Diego, California, 92173, United States

Starts 08/28/2025CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCEEPA’s^[1] release dated August 28, 2025: "Today, ... Administrator Lee Zeldin and ... Commissioner Chad McIntosh announced the completion of the 10 million-gallon-per-day (mgd) expansion"; EPA’s public updates page: "USIBWC completed 10 million gallons per day (mgd) interim expansion ... on August 28, 2025."

The border plant that treats Tijuana sewage went from 25 to 35 million gallons a day, a 40% jump finished in 100 days instead of the two years first planned.

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12/15/2025

-283 days

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Geopolitics09/24/2026@PoliticsDesk

US and Mexico Sign Minute 333 to End the Tijuana River Sewage Crisis

International Boundary and Water CommissionSouth Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tijuana River Valley, San Diego, California, 92173, United States

Starts 12/15/2025 7:00PMCONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCEThe text of Minute 333 on EPA’s^[1][2][3][6] site: "The Commissioners met at the Mexican Section offices in Tijuana, Baja California on December 15, 2025 at 11:00 a.m." (PST, UTC-8), and EPA’s release of the same day announces "the signing of a historic new agreement ... called Minute 333".

The two sections of the International Boundary and Water Commission committed Mexico to a new Tijuana treatment plant by December 2028 and a Smuggler’s Gulch sediment basin before the 2026-27 rains, on top of the Minute 328 projects.

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12/31/2030

4.3 years

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Infrastructure09/24/2026@BuildDesk

South Bay Sewage Plant Expansion to 50 Million Gallons a Day Completes

International Boundary and Water CommissionSouth Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tijuana River Valley, San Diego, California, 92173, United States

Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED3 years late69% CONFIDENCEThe Coronado News^[1][3] (21 Apr 2026) quotes IBWC^[4][6] environmental management chief Gilbert Anaya to the San Diego Water Board on 8 April: "Fifty million gallons of secondary treatment right now is targeted for what’s in our contract, which is 2030"; a year-only target is taken as its last day.

The $600 million rehabilitation doubles the border plant’s original 25 million gallons a day to 50, with a 75 million gallon peak, but IBWC now targets 2030 rather than the end of 2027.

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South Bay Sewage Plant Reaches 35 Million Gallons a Day in 100 Days

US and Mexico Sign Minute 333 to End the Tijuana River Sewage Crisis

South Bay Sewage Plant Expansion to 50 Million Gallons a Day Completes