Workers Continue to Seek Site of Sewage Leak
Stepping into another summer weekend with large portions of Huntington Beach closed, city and county officials are stepping up efforts to find the source of the sewage leak that could be Orange County’s worst in decades.
On Friday, several workers started an around-the-clock effort to clear soot from a portion of the Orange County Sanitation Districts’ seven-foot sewage pipe, which officials initially believed to be the source of the leak.
The leak was discovered June 30, when fecal and other bacteria levels found at Huntington State Beach were 10 times higher than normal levels.
Based on the collections, the leak could be dumping as much as 1 million gallons of raw sewage a day along the beach, said Charles McGee, laboratory supervisor for the county sanitation districts.
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