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Raw sewage spilled into the Otay River Channel on Wednesday after lightning struck a transformer at a pump station in the South Bay, a county health services spokeswoman said.
At 6 a.m., about 278,000 gallons of sewage poured out of the pump station at 19th Street and Louret Avenue in Palm City. The flow was stopped two hours later, she said.
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