San Diego
Two minor sewage spills flowed from pipelines Wednesday, prompting county health authorities to quarantine parts of Torrey Pines City Beach Park and Mission Bay.
About 200 yards of the Torrey Pines beach was closed about 9:45 a.m. after an 8-inch sewer line near a pump station on La Jolla Farms Road ruptured, sending about 3,000 gallons of raw sewage into a nearby canyon, said Yvonne Rehg, spokeswoman for the city’s Water Utilities Department.
Health officials said they didn’t think that any of the sewage entered the ocean, but as a precautionary move, they posted signs making a small stretch of shoreline off-limits to swimmers and beachgoers.
The other spill, which occurred in Mission Bay about 7:45 a.m., was repaired within an hour, said Lyn Wallis of the county Department of Health Services. Officials quarantined a 200-yard stretch of beach in the northeast part of the bay. Sludge began pouring out of a manhole at Pacific Beach Drive and Noyes Street after grease clogged a pipeline. About 4,000 gallons of raw sewage flowed into the Campland area just west of De Anza Cove, city workers said. A similar spill occurred in De Anza Cove in January.
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