Sewage spill closes stretch of Long Beach shoreline

Health officials on Monday, July 30, closed a stretch of the shoreline in Long Beach to beachgoers because of a spill over the weekend of 9,000 gallons of sewage.
All swimming areas west of the Belmont Pier to the Los Angeles River were closed because of potential contamination caused by the 1 p.m. spill Sunday 17 miles north of the city in Commerce, officials said.
“It appears that there was a blockage in a main sewage line that’s maintained by Los Angeles County Public Works and it