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San Diego Surfrider’s Blue Water Task Force has been testing ocean waters off IB and San Diego for years. Now it’s headed north.

San Diego Surfrider’s Blue Water Task Force has been testing ocean waters off IB and San Diego for years. Now it’s headed north

Volunteers on Sunday began picking up trash at beaches left by Fourth of July revelers in the Surfrider Foundation San Diego County “Morning After Mess” cleanup, organizers said.

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Many of the gathered volunteers are supporters of a new law that would require plastic manufacturers in California to drastically reduce production over the next decade.

A beach cleanup also featured speakers promoting a new bill that, if passed, would reduce single use plastics by 75% by 2030

With recurring sewage spills, some San Diegans are still afraid to go into the water at some of the county’s southern-most beaches.

Local leaders are fighting U.S. and Mexican governments about the toxic sewage situation along San Diego’s beaches. NBC 7’s Joe Little has more.

The San Diego City Council is set to vote Tuesday on whether to join a California lawsuit against the International Boundary Water Commission (IBWC) over sewage flow from Tijuana, Mexico into the United States.

Mayor Kevin Faulconer urged the city council to join a lawsuit over sewage spilling into the county from Tijuana. NBC 7’s Liberty Zabala has more.

Contaminated runoff washed into the Tijuana River south of the border makes its way onto the Imperial Beach shoreline nearly every time it rains, and an incoming King Tide will likely push sewage and other toxins into city streets Friday.

Recent rain has washed raw sewage from Mexico. NBC 7’s Joe Little has the story.

The newest source of drinking water in our county just reached a major milestone.

A Carlsbad desalination plant recently hit a large milestone: 40 billion gallons of water processed, though some aren’t happy with the new plant. NBC 7’s Joe Little has more.

Dirty Heads, Bishop Briggs, lovelytheband, Superorganism and Two Feet perform at Alt 949’s Indie Jam 2018 at the Oceanside Pier Amphitheatre on Saturday, Sept. 8. Read on for tickets details and more.

Organizers said last year, several hundred volunteers gathered up to 1,400 pounds of trash.

Hundreds of volunteers collected more than 800 pounds of trash from San Diego’s beaches Wednesday, tackling the mess left by a weekend of Fourth of July parties and picnics.

NBC 7 Gaby Rodriguez reports on the effort to remove thousands of pounds of trash from San Diego coastline after the holiday weekend.

An extremely venomous yellow-bellied snake, only documented to have washed ashore in California twice before, was found dead on in Huntington Beach Thursday, according to the Surfrider Foundation.