A body trapped inside a pump station in Tijuana prevented a pump station from diverting sewage south. That caused more than 14 million gallons of sewage to spill across the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend, federal officials said.
The spill started around 9 p.m. Sunday night and continued until 8 a.m. Monday morning, according to the International Boundary and Water Commission. The trans-boundary flows included treated and untreated sewage.
Mexican officials say clean-up crews found a body trapped inside the intake screens of a major pump station that routes sewage south away from the border.
An investigation and removal of the body took almost two days, preventing the pump station from operating.
U.S. officials say the transboundary flows were contained on Internal Boundary and Water Commission property on the U.S. side of the border.
