Two beaches in Ventura County was closed due to major sewage leak that got into the Pacific ocean after a power outage at the local water treatment plant. According to the County Department of environmental health, the incident occurred on Sunday around 15:00. Wastewater resulted in a mile of the shoreline, and after some time reached the ocean.
In connection with the situation of Oxnard government has banned swimmers to swim on the territory of Ormond beach and Port Haenam beach Park. They were urged to stay away from water at least until Wednesday, while her compliance will not be confirmed by laboratory tests.
In the polluted water body can potentially be the causative agents of hepatitis A, salmonellosis, cholera and other infectious diseases.
It is likely that the mussels collected in the affected region, contaminated by pathogenic bacteria, so they cannot be eaten.
Similar, but much more large-scale incident occurred in California a year ago. July 18, 2016 in Los Angeles there was a breakthrough the old sewer pipe, which in the ocean flowed 2.4 million sewage.
The environmental disaster was the largest in the history of the city.
