The city of Coronado faces a pervasive reality with the start of a new year: more beach closures.
From the Silver Strand shoreline to North Island, Coronado beaches were closed at the start of 2026 due to bacteria levels exceeding health standards resulting from transborder sewage pollution emanating from Mexico.
These beach closures happened in the weeks after the city adopted a revised resolution for continued advocacy to resolve the crisis, renewed its local emergency resolution and identified eliminating cross border water pollution in a discussion about its 2026 priority legislative goals…