Sewage spill spoils summer plans at two Los Angeles beaches
Two Los Angeles-area beaches have been shut down for more than 48 hours — amid an intense heat wave across parts of California — not because of sharks or lack of lifeguards, but because several thousand gallons of untreated sewage have spilled into a nearby creek, stinking up summer plans for beachgoers, officials said. An estimated 15,000 gallons of sewage was discharged on Saturday afternoon in a neighborhood roughly seven miles east of the Santa Monica Pier, entering the Ballona Creek, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a news release.
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