Southern California beaches dirtied by a sewage spill will stay shut until testing of water tests shows bacteria levels are inside state standards, authorities said.
A sewer main line bombed Thursday in the city of Carson and a great many gallons of untreated sewage was released into the Dominguez Channel, which exhausts into Los Angeles Harbor.
Authorities gauge around 8.5 million gallons (38.6 million liters) of sewage moved from the line, Bryan Langpap with the LA County Sanitation Districts told the Orange County Register on Saturday. The stream was halted Friday night.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health closed Cabrillo, Point Fermin, White Point Park, Royal Palm and Rancho Palos Verdes beaches. Seal Beach was among areas closed in neighboring Orange County.
In Long Beach, wellbeing official Dr. Anissa Davis requested a brief closure of all swimming spaces of the city’s roughly 7 miles (11.3 kilometers) of beaches.
The 70th yearly Polar Bear Swim that generally attracts many individuals to Cabrillo Beach San Pedro for a New Year’s Day plunge was canceled.
L.A. Province Supervisor Janice Hahn required an examination by the area Sanitation District to decide if the spill was brought about by “aging or faulty infrastructure.”
“A sewage spill of this magnitude is dangerous and unacceptable, and we need to understand what happened,” she said in a statement.