Newport Bay beach closed after sewage spill

Los Angeles Times

Aug. 13, 2014 6:53 PM PT

A beach along Newport Bay is closed for swimming and diving after a sewage spill Wednesday afternoon, according to Orange County health officials.

About 50 gallons of sewage was spilled from a boat into the water at dock near Bayside Drive Beach, said Larry Honeybourne, an assistant director of environmental health with the Orange County Healthcare Agency.

Officials closed a nearby beach after the spill. The beach is expected to remain closed for at least two days, or until testing shows that bacteria has returned to acceptable levels, Honeybourne said.

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Stephen Ceasar previously covered California’s civil courts for the Los Angeles Times. A native of El Centro, Calif., he worked as a reporter for The Times’ education and national staffs, the New York Times and the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. He is a 2009 graduate of the University of Arizona. Ceasar left The Times in 2016.