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Orange County health officials put up warning signs at Harbor Patrol
Beach, near the Balboa Yacht Club in Newport Harbor, after
higher-than-permitted levels of human waste bacteria were found.
The Orange County Health Care Agency posted the sign at 4 p.m.
Wednesday. It remained up on Thursday.
Health officials said they would remove the sign from the 200-foot
beach after additional testing revealed that the beach water meets the
state’s standard of 104 organisms per 100 milliliters. A Tuesday sample
revealed a 140-count in the beach waters.
The agency found enterococcus bacteria, one of several types officials
test to detect.
The agency also removed a posted warning at Sapphire Avenue on the
south shore of Balboa Island on Wednesday.
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