HUNTINGTON BEACH : Beach Reopens After Water Safety Verified
A half-mile portion of beach reopened Tuesday afternoon after test results following a weekend sewage spill showed that the water is safe, county health officials said.
“We’ve done the monitoring and reviewed data and it indicates that the water meets state standards,” said Larry Honeybourne, program chief of the water quality section for the Orange County Health Care Agency.
Honeybourne said the stretch of beach near the mouth of the Santa Ana River--at both Huntington State Beach and Newport Beach--was reopened at 4 p.m. Tuesday after being closed since Sunday.
The treated sewage water is normally discharged about four miles into the ocean. But sewage leaked from a pipeline and dumped waste water--between 5,000 and 7,500 gallons--into the Santa River.
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