59°F VISIBILITY
SURFACE TEMPERATURE: LOW
Water Conditions HIGH
61°F 5'–15'
Moderate winds Thurs and Fri should stir the water up and reduce the visibility inshore, though it will lay down by the weekend and provide some decent diving conditions and clean faces for the surfers. Boaters should especially keep an extra eye out for divers near the reefs and channel edges and divers always mark yourselves and area appropriately.
Visibility based on existing conditions and NOAA predicted swell and weather conditions at press time. Check up-to-date daily visibility/ conditions at the San Diego County Lifeguard info line: 619-221-8824
Moon Calendar SUNRISE
FEBRUARY SUNSET
THUR 9
6:37 17:29
LENGTH OF DAY 10H 52M
SAT 11
6:36 17:31
10H 55M
MON 13
6:34 17:32
10H 58M
WED 15
6:32 17:34 11H 2M
The damning letter tells bank management that it takes 6–14 hours for Mexican sewage to reach I.B and Coronado.
including Nestor and San Ysidro, also signed the letter. The letter addresses the flows in the
Tijuana River and the treated wastewater pumped into the ocean from Tijuana’s San Antonio de Los Buenos plant (Punta Ban- deras) to a pipe that spits it out at Las Playas. “The discharge of partially treated waste-
water on the beach at Punta Banderas is now recognized as a major cause of contaminated water in Imperial Beach and Coronado…. [P]ollutant transport times are only 6–14 hours for sewage plumes to reach Imperial Beach and the south end of Coronado dur- ing prolonged southerly swells and winds,” the letter says. A recent visitor to the plant, which treats
sewage to the primary level — not to U.S. secondary-level standards — observed that of the 150 aerators at the plant, only three were working. “We are getting killed by the 15 million
gallons of treated wastewater they dump every day,” Imperial Beach mayor Serge Dedina said at a city-council meeting on January 18. The letter counts annual beach-closure
days because of fecal bacteria in the water at 233 for Border Field, 74 at the I.B. pier, and 41 days in parts of Coronado, where the Silver Strand is worst hit. With Mexico’s decision to build a desali-
nation plant at Rosarito — and $1 billion in funding from the North American Develop- ment Bank — the South Bay cities saw an opportunity to apply pressure to the agen- cies they say haven’t kept Punta Banderas in good order. “I’m confident because of the need for
the desalinated water in Baja, there’s more political will in Mexico than ever before,” Dedina said. The desalination plant wants to peddle
the water to South Bay cities, according to bank documents.
FIRST BLUEFIN TUNA REPORTED OFF COLONET
Dock Totals 1/29 -2/4: 560 anglers aboard 37 boats out of San Diego landings this past week caught 111 yellowtail, 101 calico bass, 168 sand bass, 922 rockfish, 177 sanddab, 6 halfmoon, 1 rubberlip seaperch, 12 blacksmith, 1 spanish jack, 140 whitefish, 8 barracuda, 3 sheephead, 22 lingcod, 1 finescale triggerfish, 2 halibut, 44 mackerel and 558 sculpin.
Top performing boats of the week:
1/29:The Tribute out of Seaforth Landing carrying 34 anglers to the Colonet area off Baja for a 1.5 day trip reported 90 whitefish, 3 lingcod,
Bluff below Pelican Point apartments — “When I woke up it was gone.”
The desalination plant is being built
in two phases. The first phase is meant to provide 50 million gallons of desalinated drinking water — equal to the Carlsbad Poseidon plant output — to Baja by 2019. The second phase would provide water to the Otay Water District, which serves South Bay cities.
— Marty Graham
As Ocean Beach crumbles Two properties just south of the Ocean Beach Pier lost their bluffs over the weekend, drop- ping large boulders, wooden planks, and debris on the sandstone below. Pelican Point apartment complex, located
at 5107 Narragansett Avenue, and the neigh- boring property to the south (1783–1787 Ocean Front Street) were both affected. A resident of Pelican Point told me when he went to bed on Friday, January 27, the
90 rockfish and 2 yellowtail caught. The Eclipse, also out of Seaforth, called in with 107 yellowtail, 8 barracuda, 2 lingcod and 108 rockfish for the 16 anglers aboard their 2.5 day trip south of the border. The Electra out of Helgren’s Landing in Oceanside reported 130 sculpin and 50 sanddab caught by 26 anglers on a ½ day run. Running out of H&M Landing, the Relentless took 16 anglers south on a 1.5 day run and returned with limits of 160 rockfish. The Chubasco II carried 12 anglers out to the local kelp on a ½ day run and returned to the dock with a pair of sculpin and 25 keeper calico bass.
2/1:The Electra out of Helgren’s called in with 45 sanddab and 75 sculpin for the 15 anglers aboard their local ½ day run.
bluff was intact. “When I woke up Saturday morning it was gone.” Representatives for Pelican Point were
there on January 28 placing tarps along the bluff. Though there was no reported dam- age to the structure itself, the seawall located below the property is crushed. Below the Ocean Front property, which is
also an apartment complex, the lowest portion of the bluff slid down and took the retaining wall with it. Large boulders now block a por- tion of the cliffs, making passage possible only during lower tides. This is the fourth bluff collapse south
of the pier in as many years. The ends of Bermuda and Pescadero avenues have both undergone repairs, and according to the con- tractors working on the properties, there is a home at the end of Point Loma Avenue that also has some heavy erosion going on under the home that needs repairs.
— Delinda Lombardo
2/2:The Dolphin out of Fisherman’s Landing took a mere 8 anglers on a ½ day run and returned to the dock with 26 sand bass, 9 sculpin and 45 calico bass.
2/4:The Premier, on a ½ day trip out of H&M Landing with 26 anglers at the rail reported 3 halfmoon, 18 sand bass, 4 calico bass and 6 sculpin in the gunnysacks. The Point Loma out of Point Loma Sportfishing fished near the Coronados on a ¾ day run with 17 anglers aboard and called in with 71 rockfish, 2 sculpin, 2 sheephead and 32 whitefish for the day. Running out of Fisherman’s Landing for a ½ day trip with 23 anglers aboard, the Dolphin returned to the dock with 10 calico bass, 14 sand bass and 6 sculpin.
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