San Diego
Parts of Dog Beach in Ocean Beach have been closed temporarily because of raw sewage from a ruptured pipe that poured into the San Diego River and ended up on the seashore, county health officials said Friday.
The line ruptured at 10:30 a.m. Thursday on Waring Road, and, as of 3 p.m. Friday, 342,000 gallons of sewage had been discharged, said Mike Vernetti, spokesman for the County Department of Health Services.
Contractors were expected to have the leak fixed by late Friday.
Signs have been posted in contaminated areas, Vernetti said.
Sewage was also discharged from a ruptured line at 7 a.m. Friday on the west end of El Camino Real in Encinitas, he said. The flow was transferred to a parallel ditch, where the 300,000 gallon spill was confined.
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