Our city-wide campaigns have led to the preservation of the Tecate River, established community gardens provided urban planning for a green corridor along the Tecate River which is now home to Tecate’s museums and performing arts center. We have sparked partnerships and woven networks with other organizations to preserve and protect our diminishing wild spaces.
For twenty five years, Fundación La Puerta has worked with neighborhood and community groups leading river clean ups, participating in citizen’s committees to protect the watershed and monitoring policies that effect the natural environment in our watershed.
As a key tributary of the Tijuana River, the Tecate River faces considerable impact from industrial and urban growth with more than 50% of Tecate’s wastewater entering the river channel untreated.
Homeless encampments within the river corridor are a new challenge for Tecate. Parks and walkways, seven miles of urban river once free of trash, are no longer healthy or safe.
These conditions require a coordinated effort between civil society, business and the city government.