Beachgoers seeking relief from the heat were urged Friday to avoid entering the water at five Los Angeles County beaches where elevated bacteria levels could increase the risk of illness.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued ocean water warnings for the following locations:<\/p>\n
\u2014 Ramirez Creek at Paradise Cove, 100 yards up and down the coast from Paradise Cove Pier;<\/p>\n
\u2014 Solstice Creek at Dan Blocker County Beach, entire swim area;<\/p>\n
\u2014 East Wilshire Boulevard storm drain at Santa Monica Beach, 100 yards up and down the coast from the storm drain;<\/p>\n
\u2014 Inner Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, entire swim area; and<\/p>\n
\u2014 Santa Monica Pier, 100 yards up and down the coast from the pier.<\/p>\n
Health officials said the warnings were issued after recent water samples found bacteria levels exceeding state health standards, which may increase the risk of illness.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, warnings were lifted for the Castlerock storm drain at Topanga County Beach after recent testing found bacteria levels had returned to within state health standards.<\/p>\n
Recorded information on beach conditions is available 24 hours a day on the county\u2019s beach hotline at 800-525-5662. A map of affected beaches and additional information are available at PublicHealth.LACounty.gov\/Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beachgoers seeking relief from the heat were urged Friday to avoid entering the water at five Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103530,1785,165002,166,47641,131,133,132,170650,646],"class_list":["post-428840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-avoid","tag-beaches","tag-beachgoers","tag-county","tag-five","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-urged","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428840","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=428840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}