Sewage Spill Closes Part of Salt Creek Beach
A stretch of Salt Creek Beach was closed to swimmers and surfers Sunday morning after a sewage spill.
A sewer line in the 32700 block of Seven Seas Drive was blocked by tree roots, causing 160 to 200 gallons of raw sewage to spill out shortly after 9 a.m. South Coast Water District employees captured 75 to 100 gallons, but the rest flowed onto the beach.
Six hundred feet of coastline surrounding the mouth of Salt Creek is closed until testing shows that it is safe. It is the 51st time this year that a beach in Orange County has been closed by a sewage spill.
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