圣迭戈县首任污染危机主管 Bridget Premont 上任 专责蒂华纳河污水危机
圣迭戈讯——位于加利福尼亚州圣迭戈县的县政府新设的「污染危机主管」一职10月19日迎来首任人选 Bridget Premont 上任。这一县史上首设的职位专责应对困扰蒂华纳河谷多年的跨境污水危机，其办公室设在县法律顾问办公室。
Premont 2017年至2021年担任美国驻蒂华纳领事馆政治经济处处长，并曾代理总领事职务。任内她积极推动处理跨境污染问题，据圣迭戈县称，她协助争取到超过3.4亿美元的美国与墨西哥联邦资金，用于治理跨境水污染。
履新后，Premont 将协调联邦、州和地方各级机构推进基础设施升级并争取治污资金，担任新成立的污水危机跨部门工作组主席，并建立和运营一个公共资金仪表盘，确保资金使用透明。她还将统筹媒体简报、社区会议和双语信息发布，让公众及时了解治理进展。
蒂华纳河谷的跨境污水问题已持续数十年：未经处理的污水、垃圾与受污染径流经蒂华纳河进入圣迭戈县南部海岸水域，Imperial Beach 等地海滩长期关闭，河谷周边居民饱受异味困扰。今年11月选票上的圣迭戈县 B 号提案拟征收半美分销售税，预计每年可筹得4亿至4.5亿美元，其中22.5%的收入将专用于应对这场污水危机。（GSM 据圣迭戈县发布与 California City News 报道）
San Diego County's First Pollution Crisis Chief, Bridget Premont, Takes Office to Tackle the Tijuana River Sewage Crisis
SAN DIEGO — Bridget Premont took office on October 19 as San Diego County's first-ever pollution crisis chief, a newly created position dedicated to the long-running cross-border sewage crisis in the Tijuana River Valley, in San Diego County, California. She will work inside the County Counsel's Office.
From 2017 to 2021, Premont served as political and economic chief at the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, where she also served as acting consul general. During that time she advocated for action on cross-border pollution in the Tijuana River Valley, and according to San Diego County she helped secure more than $340 million in U.S. and Mexican federal funding to fight cross-border water pollution.
As pollution crisis chief, Premont will coordinate with federal, state and local agencies on infrastructure upgrades and work to secure funding for sewage-crisis mitigation. She will chair the new Sewage Crisis Interdepartmental Task Force and establish and run a public funding dashboard to ensure transparency in how resources are allocated. She will also coordinate media briefings, community meetings and bilingual information campaigns.
For decades, untreated sewage, trash and contaminated runoff have flowed across the U.S.-Mexico border through the Tijuana River Valley into coastal waters in southern San Diego County, driving prolonged beach closures around Imperial Beach and persistent odors for valley residents. Measure B, a half-cent countywide sales tax on the November ballot, would generate an estimated $400 million to $450 million a year, with 22.5% of the proceeds set aside to address the crisis. (GSM, based on San Diego County and California City News)
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：蒂华纳河谷（资料图），经 Wikimedia Commons 发布，CC0。Tijuana River Valley (file photo), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
