The beach a half a mile either direction from Sunset at PCH was closed because of a sewer spill.
If you had planned a trip to the beach over Labor Day, and didn’t want to come home with e-coli and other intestinal illnesses, the closure of Will Rogers State Beach, half mile in each direction at Sunset Boulevard, was put into place by the L.A. County of Public Health on August 29.
The Los Angeles City Sanitation Department notified Public Health of a sewage discharge that occurred at the 17300 block of Sunset Boulevard at the intersection of Paseo Miramar. Per the report the discharge was caused by a root blockage and resulted in approximately 6700 gallons of sewage entering the storm drain and entering the ocean at Sunset and PCH.
The Department of Public Health was planning to conduct water sampling starting today, but good news, as of 5 p.m. the ocean water closure has been lifted.
The Department of Public Health was notified today by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works Flood Control Division that a low flow diverter on the affected storm drain successfully redirected the sewage discharge to prevent the sewage from contaminating the ocean waters. Therefore, ocean water closure for Will Rogers State Beach is no longer in effect.
Go play in the ocean over Labor Day!
Recorded information on beach conditions is available 24- hours a day on the County’s beach closure hotline: 1-800- 525-5662.
(Editor’s note: And what about the RVs that dump black water (feces and urine) between Porto Marino and Topanga Canyon Boulevard? L.A.County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath would tell you they don’t have to obey the “No Parking” signs, because “Where else could they go?”)
Rv’s park along PCH by the ocean for weeks/months and dump their black water.