City and state beaches in Huntington Beach will reopen after water quality tests revealed no detectable levels of oil associated toxins in the ocean water, Huntington city and California State Parks said in a news release. They are still urging visitors to avoid areas that smell of oil and not to touch any oiled materials that wash ashore.
The spill was confirmed on Oct. 2, a day after residents reported a petroleum smell in the area. The cause is under investigation and officials said they believe the pipeline was likely damaged by a ship’s anchor several months to a year before it ruptured. It remains unknown when the slender, 13-inch crack in the pipeline began leaking oil.
Officials in the city of 200,000 people have been testing the water to ensure it’s safe before people are allowed back in. Popular surfing and swimming spots in Newport Beach and Laguna Beach are also closed, and further south the water is open but signs are posted warning people about the spill. “It could be a year to two years to get the tourism to come back,” Ali said, adding that a 1990 oil spill wound up diverting would-be visitors to beaches south and north of the city.
Who's under seas pipeline? Do they have immunity?
Isn't 'leak' more accurate than 'spill?' It didn't spill out of a ship or from a drilling platform.
Sure... everybody knows half a million gallons of oil just disappears.
This is the Freedom Republicans always talk about. Your freedom to swim in toxic sludge.
To be fair it’s Huntington Beach, they probably had protests saying ‘my beach my choice’ and ‘oil spills are a deep state myth’
Damn, oil is so thick that dude has sunk up to his knees...
bethsinniresist Everything about this is insane.🤬
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If this happened from a BP or Shell installation in the US it would continually be a major headline news. The fact it isn’t also indicates how the Biden government doesn’t see major environmental disasters as important to the environment.
How did I know it was Huntington Beach before I clicked the link?
Our most brilliant scientists, now believe that we're in a deadly feedback loop. Even if we reduced our carbon footprints to 0; & stopped driving gas guzzlers. If we all moved out of our mansions & big houses, & tried to live a carbon neutral existence, it might be too late!
Yeah, wetlands looked great. Of course the berm is up still. Bolsa chica wetlands untouched. Most of the workers on the beach were just standing around. Pier was busy. Beautiful weekend. Not a catastrophe as the environmentalists want you to believe.
Who cares about the surfers and shops. Let's talk about the wildlife and the lasting damage to the ecosystem.
Oh yea Have all Darwin's mistakes swim and surf in that Everything is fucking fine
good luck
Is there a new slip and slide? 🙄
- If you're going to have to go out of state, you may as well move out of that state permanently.
Would you go to a beach that has crude oil floating near it?
sounds lovely
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