Stretch of 19th Street closes due to...

Stretch of 19th Street closes due to flooding

Hard rains shut down a portion of 19th Street Sunday, a Costa Mesa

Fire official said.

The street was closed between Anaheim and Park avenues at about

5:45 p.m. Sunday, the dispatcher said. There was no estimated time

when the road would reopen. Though no traffic collisions were

reported, several cars stalled on the flooded street.

The National Weather Service did not have rainfall figures for the

Costa Mesa area but did issue a flash flood warning for the Orange

County coast at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The warning was set to expire at

9:30 p.m.

Spill causes closure of Corona del Mar beach

The Orange County Health Care Agency shut down all of Corona del

Mar State Beach on Saturday.

A recorded message on the agency’s Ocean and Bay Closure and

Posting Hotline indicated that a sewage spill closed the beach from

the breakwater to Inspiration Point. Information on the severity of

the spill was not immediately available, and agency representatives

could not be contacted Sunday.