Beach Closure thread

[Piggity]

Is there a thread dedicated to beach closures? or sewage spills? I searched jong but didn't see one

Sewage spill in Cardiff/Encinitas

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...-beach-lagoon/

Parts of Cardiff State Beach and the San Elijo Lagoon in Encinitas have been closed to recreational use because of a spill Sunday evening that dumped nearly a quarter-million gallons of raw sewage into Escondido Creek.

Edit: The thread might be useful so no one surfs in poop, at least not on purpose

[ilikecandy]

Not a current closure but might be relevant to your interests - mission beach closed for 2 days due to 2 separate shark sightings:

http://news.yahoo.com/san-diego-beac...213436756.html

[Piggity]

I forgot to post that one, thanks man! They closed the beach twice for the men in grey suits after those sightings.

The Lifeguard making the initial sighting was enough for them to close the beach down. The rumors are the credibility of the 2nd sighting was questionable but they weren't going to risk it so they closed the beach again. I think people around here are fairly sensitive to sharks and guys up north would probably laugh at us

[Piggity]

Sounds like LJ reefs near childrens pool might have been shutdown for a little while but now back open with an advisory. Looks like several other shark sightings up and down the coast in SD past few days

http://www.cbs8.com/story/15376659/u...clipId=6212610

[Piggity]

Unfortunately this thread is getting more use than I had hoped for. Scripps to Solana Beach closed, this is a fairly big stretch of coastline covering many miles for those not familiar.

Power Outage Update:
City Beaches Closed Due To Sewage Spill In San Diego

The beaches from Solana Beach to Scripps Pier are closed as a result of a sewage spill that occurred in the Los Penasquitos Lagoon. City of San Diego crews are currently working to fix the problem, but as a result, all beaches have been closed and people should not go into the water until further notified. Please stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.

[Piggity]

Just an FYI to guys in SD, still sewage spillage to worry about.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...ego-coastline/

This is Raw sewage and not partially treated waste water.

1.9 Million of gallons of raw sewage spilled just because the treatment plants did not have a generator during last weeks blackout. Seems obvious they would have had a generator when something this major is at stake...pathetic that our beaches suffer like this.

Restrictions started Thursday when the regional blackout caused two major sewage spills in San Diego. One was at a sewage pump station on Roselle Street, where an estimated 1.9 million gallons spilled into the Los Peñasquitos Lagoon. About 120,000 gallons leaked into the Sweetwater River from a pump station near Interstate 5 and state Route 54.

Sewage pollution from last week's accidents is dissipating in places but growing worse in other areas as wastewater moves from a lagoon to the shoreline, environmental health officials said Monday.

At the same time, San Diego announced a cleanup plan for about 1 million gallons of sewage that have pooled in a tributary of Los Peñasquitos Lagoon.

Tests announced Monday showed the bacteria levels are still far above state standards at beaches near the lagoon mouth. Closures are likely to remain in place through the week at the hardest hit spots because health officials require two days of clean samples before they clear beaches for human use.

"Actually, a lot of the numbers are going up," Mark McPherson, chief of water quality of the county's Department of Environmental Health, said Monday afternoon. "We are still seeing the effects of the spill coming out of the lagoon.... It's going to take awhile."

Full story makes me even more pizzed off if you read about the Imperial Beach spill.

In addition, regulators on Monday afternoon confirmed that about 3.8 million gallons of wastewater spilled into the Tijuana River on Thursday from a power-related malfunction in Mexico. Some of the water was captured by a U.S. treatment plant and processed there and the rest absorbed into the dry river bed, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission.

[BirdRock]

I saw someone with the City quoted as saying something to the effect of "we can't possibly have a generator at every pump house to avoid spills when the power is out."

Why the fuck not?

edit - now that I read the article you linked I see them saying "we will look into the possibility of a generator at every pump station." Isn't hindsight great!?!?!?

[ilikecandy]

they will look into it but they will not do it. way too expensive for a very low likelihood event with consequences that arent really all that costly in the long run

certainly they should and will review protocols, and lord knows they wont get it right even when they do, but there's no way they can afford that kind of full redundancy, especially with all the other stuff they could be spending money on

[Piggity]

They'll be lots of looking into it, with little action, the standard government protocol as stated above.

I think what is most eye opening is the lack of preparedness in SD for blackouts. We are much less prepared than other areas of the country that experience major storms causing blackouts. A lot of residences and business in other regions have generators because they are prepared for such events.

What I realized is there are not many people in SD with generators. Almost instantly the entire city shut down including gas stations, grocery stores, convenience stores, restaurants. Hopefully you weren't on E while driving to pickup your dinner that night. Cause you would have been stranded and hungry at the flip of a switch

Unimaginable traffic delays due to the mad rush of everyone leaving work with stop lights that were out and there weren't enough police for traffic patrol at all the major intersections. Major chaos during the first hours of the blackout, I can't imagine if there was an emergency such as an earthquake combined with a blackout here in SD. Our city is not prepared and this little blackout exposed that.

Tow trucks were supposedly only responding to emergency calls so good luck if your car broke down. 1 Restaurant alone reportedly threw out almost $10k in meat. Grocery stores scrambled to get dry ice out on their product and couldn't sell the inventory because all the machines were down. Gas stations couldn't couldn't sell gas because most pumps need electricity now a days, so do your credit card processing machines. Sewage was dumped. I can go on and on, it was pretty revealing how this city would react to a major emergency.