State officials meet to discuss sewage crisis. Residents want solutions. ‘Don’t talk about it; help us.’

Avery Korkorowitz said she’s been recovering from a recent asthma attack that lasted three days.

“I couldn’t breathe, I was gasping constantly,” said Korkorowitz, an Imperial Beach resident of four years. “It was terrifying. Maybe the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me.”

Speaking in Imperial Beach on Monday from her car after county staff loaded her trunk with an air purifier and two filters, Korkorowitz said her asthma attack was the direct result of polluted air stemming from an environmental and public health catastrophe many experts are calling the worst of its kind in the nation: the Tijuana River sewage crisis.

“I hadn’t had an asthma attack since I was a kid, since forever,” she said.

Earlier this year, when the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District launched a $2.7 million program to distribute 10,000 indoor air purifiers amongst three South Bay communities, it was intended to be a temporary solution to a much more pervasive threat.

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