'There’s no response from the government nor help defining what chemicals we are breathing'
On an evening in early September, Kylie Carrasco of Nestor said the rotten eggs odor in her south San Diego neighborhood near where sewage pollution spills over from Tijuana became so strong that she found herself in her front yard clutching a hand-held gas monitor she bought on Amazon. 'It would pick up levels of and carbon monoxide in the air just from standing outside,' said Carrasco, who is pregnant with her second child. 'That's when I was like ... really nervous.
Kaveh Bagheri, a pulmonologist at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa and a member of the American Lung Association, noted that one of the main reasons there isn't great data about chronic exposures to sewer gas in American science is because such situations are not common. 'This should not happen in America, and it should be resolved,' Bagheri said. 'If this odor was in Beverly Hills, it would have been fixed overnight.
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