The city’s shuttered beaches won’t reopen until testing shows they meet state water quality standard.
Long Beach temporarily closed its ocean swimming areas west of the Belmont Pier on Wednesday, March 15, because of an approximately 18,000-gallon sewage spill in Paramount.
Those beach areas will remain closed until testing shows they meet state water quality standards, the city’s health department said in a Wednesday afternoon statement. Sewers reaching capacity and the large amount of rain that fell on the Southland overnight caused the spill, Long Beach said. The sewage ran into the Los Angeles River, which flows into the ocean.
The city has about seven miles of public beaches and the Belmont Pier is actually closer to Seal Beach, in Orange County, than the western edge of the city.
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