27,000 Gallons of Sewage Spill in Long Beach: All Coastal Waters Closed
Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California: About 27,000 gallons of sewage spilled from a ruptured pipe near Belmont Shore on the evening of October 30, prompting the city to close all of its coastal waters over the Halloween weekend.
The Long Beach health department said the spill was associated with a break in a force main, a pressurized pipe that conveys wastewater, and that the cause of the break remains unclear. City crews rerouted the sewage to bypass the damaged line, began emergency repairs, and called in a contractor to clean up the spilled material.
Because some of the sewage may have reached the ocean, the city closed coastal waters citywide as required by state law. The waters will remain closed until testing shows they meet quality standards.
The spill came as Long Beach residents were already bracing for a fourth day of high tides linked to a stronger-than-usual El Nino, with coastal flood advisories in effect across Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties. The city has repeatedly dealt with pollution flowing downstream through the Los Angeles and San Gabriel rivers, including a 2,400-gallon oil spill in May whose crude was kept from the ocean with containment booms in Long Beach.
Source: GSM News, America
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：长滩 Belmont Shore 海岸一带航拍。 / Photo: Aerial view of the Belmont Shore coastline in Long Beach. 来源：Wikimedia Commons 文件页 File:Aerial views of Belmont Shore, Long Beach, California 01.jpg（CC BY-SA 4.0），作者：Jared。
