Blocked Line Spills Sewage Into Lagoon
City of Ventura sanitation workers spent about five hours Tuesday cleaning up a sewage spill that drained into a lagoon near the pier.
A sewer line backed up at the corner of Kalorama Drive and Buena Vista Street about 9 a.m., causing a few hundred gallons of raw sewage to flow down storm drains, said Don Davis of the city’s sanitation department.
Workers were able to clear the line but had to scramble to the beach to prevent the sewage from continuing into the ocean, Davis said.
The crews flushed the storm drains and then sucked up the water in the lagoon into three huge water tankers. The material was then taken to the city’s waste-water treatment plant, Davis said.
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