The State - News from May 27, 1988

The ocean off Laguna Beach was reopened to swimmers and surfers after Orange County health authorities declared them free of contamination from last weekend’s 1-million gallon spill of raw sewage. The waters were reopened after tests showed no bacterial contamination along about a 1-mile stretch of shoreline from the north end of the city’s Main Beach to Cleo Street on the south, a county water quality expert said. The spill apparently occurred late Saturday or early Sunday when a pump station on Laguna Canyon Road was knocked out by an electrical failure.