{"id":590025,"date":"2021-07-13T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590025"},"modified":"2021-07-13T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:21:05","slug":"17-million-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spills-into-pacific-ocean-closing-some-l-a-area-beaches-to-swimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/17-million-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spills-into-pacific-ocean-closing-some-l-a-area-beaches-to-swimmers\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Million Gallons Of Raw Sewage Spills Into Pacific Ocean Closing Some L.A.-Area Beaches To Swimmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F17-million-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spills-into-pacific-ocean-closing-some-l-a-area-beaches-to-swimmers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Beach-Closed-spill.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Some Los Angeles-area beaches were closed to swimmers on Monday after 17 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Sanitation officials said the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in Playa del Rey had become \u201cinundated with overwhelming quantities of debris\u201d after a power outage, triggering the plant\u2019s relief system to discharge the waste matter through a pipe one mile offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperion Executive Plant Manager Timeyin Defeta said in a statement that the \u201cemergency measure\u201d was necessary \u201cto prevent the plant from going completely offline and discharging much more raw sewage.\u201d He added, \u201cNormally the discharge of treated sewage is through the five-mile outfall.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-07-12\/la-me-power-plant-sewage-ocean\">According<\/a> to the L.A. Times, \u201cDafeta said he believes that the incident was the largest amount of untreated sewage discharged through the one-mile pipe over the last 10 years,\u201d and \u201cthe one-mile pipe was last used for a major discharge of wastewater in 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>17 million gallons of sewage is about 6% of a daily load, Defeta said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.76\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As a body surfer, not good. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IYJRcvS0uT\">https:\/\/t.co\/IYJRcvS0uT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frank Stoltze (@StoltzeFrankly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StoltzeFrankly\/status\/1414753413422739565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The L.A. County Department of Public Health issued a beach closure order on Monday affecting swim areas around Dockweiler State Beach and El Segundo Beach. They will remain closed until water samples are confirmed negative for elevated bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday afternoon, L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn tweeted, \u201cWe are going to need answers about how and why this happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtocols for notifying regulatory agencies and the State\u2019s Office of Emergency Services were followed,\u201d said Defeta on Monday. \u201cWater quality sampling and testing of shoreline (beach) samples are currently being conducted, and our monitoring vessel traveled to both outfalls to make observations and take samples for analyses following regulatory permit protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.75\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shortly after taking this picture a lifeguard approached me and said that 17 million gallons of sewage were dumped in this ocean last night\u2026 he did say that I would want to take a good long shower tonight as well which I will be doing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TtwhEM327Q\">pic.twitter.com\/TtwhEM327Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ravenna Golden (@ravennagolden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ravennagolden\/status\/1414760027559104517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-07-12\/la-me-power-plant-sewage-ocean\">More details<\/a> from the L.A. Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>At about noon on Sunday, a large amount of debris unexpectedly clogged filtering screens with openings less than an inch in size at the treatment plant, said Barbara Romero, the director of L.A.\u2019s Department of Sanitation and Environment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The plant\u2019s managers tried adding screens to replace the ones that were blocked. They also tried redirecting the flows to a storm drain system within the plant \u2014 an alternative way to bring the water through the normal treatment process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But after several hours of recirculating the water, the system was still too overwhelmed\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So about 7:30 p.m., plant workers discharged the wastewater one mile out and 50 feet deep into the ocean. The normal process directs treated wastewater 190 feet down.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Romero, sanitation workers successfully routed the flows of water back through the standard treatment process around 4:30 a.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Heal the Bay, an environmental nonprofit dedicated to protecting coastal waters of Greater L.A. warned that \u201cbacteria and viruses in raw sewage are extremely dangerous to people and can carry a variety of diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group <a href=\"https:\/\/healthebay.org\/july-2021-sewage-spill-in-santa-monica-bay-and-beach-closures\/\">posted<\/a> information about the discharge on its website and urged people to stay out of Santa Monica Bay until further notice.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.0514285714286\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT: 17 million gallons of raw sewage were spilled into the Santa Monica Bay on 7\/11-7\/12. Dockweiler State Beach and El Segundo Beach are closed to the public. We recommend staying out of the water. We&#8217;ll keep you updated as we learn more.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8sP1MplBKa\">https:\/\/t.co\/8sP1MplBKa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PNl7QJlu9u\">pic.twitter.com\/PNl7QJlu9u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Heal the Bay (@HealTheBay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HealTheBay\/status\/1414717363744763904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDebris such as tampons and plastic trash, when released into the Bay, can harbor bacteria and can cause entanglement of wildlife, but it seems in this case that debris were successfully filtered out of the spill before it made it to the Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Los Angeles-area beaches were closed to swimmers on Monday after 17 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into the Pacific Ocean.Sanitation officials said the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314587,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Beach-Closed-spill.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"17 Million Gallons Of Raw Sewage Spills Into Pacific Ocean Closing Some L.A.-Area Beaches To Swimmers","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Beach-Closed-spill.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"17 Million Gallons Of Raw Sewage Spills Into Pacific Ocean Closing Some L.A.-Area Beaches To Swimmers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}