Health officials are warning people to stay out of the water all along the Long Beach coastline after a large sewage spill sent thousands of gallons of waste flowing downstream to its beaches.<\/p>\n
More than 18,000 gallons of sewage were discharged into the San Gabriel River on Tuesday, according to the California Office of Emergency Services. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe sewage spill occurred in the City of Industry due to railway installation work that cut through a pipe,\u201d the city of Long Beach said in a health notice Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
City health officials said they\u2019ll reopen the water at local beaches when the water quality and bacteria count return to healthy levels.<\/p>\n
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Long Beach is no stranger to closing its beaches when upstream cities send sewage flowing into the San Gabriel or Los Angeles rivers. It\u2019s\u00a0talked about exploring ways<\/a>\u00a0to hold those polluters accountable and has more recently pushed for better regulation of cities allowing\u00a0litter into the L.A. River<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health officials are warning people to stay out of the water all along the Long Beach coastline after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,21403,18659,131,133,132,16425,23284,1786,37209],"class_list":["post-100036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-industry","tag-long","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-river","tag-san-gabriel","tag-sewage","tag-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}