California Democrats are urging newly confirmed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to visit a fraught wastewater treatment plant that has been struggling to contend with a cross-border sewage crisis.

Reps. Scott Peters and Juan Vargas and Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff wrote a letter to Zeldin this week, inviting him to come witness firsthand the public health hazards affecting the southernmost residents of California.

“As you know, decades of underinvestment in cross-border wastewater infrastructure have led to the flow of untreated sewage into San Diego,” the letter stated. “EPA served as an important advocate for this issue in the last Trump Administration and we hope the agency will continue to do so once again.”

The lawmakers were referring to an unrelenting crisis affecting the city of Imperial Beach and its San Diego County neighbors, which have for years been the cross-border recipients of wastewater tainted with chemicals and pathogens. This unfettered flow, which results from inadequate treatment in Mexico, ends up in........

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