Coast reopens after sewage spill
Laguna Beach’s coastline reopened completely Wednesday morning after a massive sewage spill shut down two miles of the city’s shoreline.
A failing clamp on a sewer main’s air release valve and subsequent difficulties repairing it last week resulted in about 58,000 gallons of sewage flowing into the sea.
The city was able to fix the leak temporarily Saturday morning, City Manager Ken Frank said.
City workers are scheduled to make permanent repairs to the sewer Monday through Thursday of next week, causing partial closures of Coast Highway between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., said John Pietig, assistant city manager.
At least one lane of the major thoroughfare should be open in each direction, Pietig said.
Orange County health officials declared the last quarter-mile of beach, from north of Agate Street down to Ruby Street, contamination-free, said Larry Honeybourne, program manager with the environmental health division of the Orange County Health Care Agency.
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-- Susannah Rosenblatt
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