SAN DIEGO — The recent rainstorms are putting the Tijuana River Trash Boom Project to the test, and so far, it’s proving its worth.
The trash boom was installed about a year and a half ago to stop waste from spreading through the Tijuana River Valley and into the Pacific Ocean.
The barriers, stretching roughly 700 feet across the beginning of the Tijuana River Valley, are designed to catch debris flowing from Tijuana before it reaches the ocean…