{"id":482304,"date":"2010-03-28T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fedf291970c"},"modified":"2010-03-28T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:26:09","slug":"south-orange-county-beaches-remain-closed-after-sewage-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/482304","title":{"rendered":"South Orange County beaches remain closed after sewage spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large swath of the southern Orange County coast remained closed Sunday, five days after a major sewage spill.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they would <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/mar\/26\/local\/la-me-sewage-spill26-2010mar26\">reopen the O.C. beaches<\/a> when water quality met state standards for two straight days.<\/p>\n<p>An underground<br \/>\nsewage main in Rancho Santa Margarita ruptured Tuesday afternoon,<br \/>\nsending an estimated 500,000 gallons of raw sewage gushing into a creek<br \/>\nthat emptied into the ocean at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point,<br \/>\nofficials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> Beaches from the breakwater at Dana Point Harbor to Capistrano Bay<br \/>\nCommunity Beach are closed.<\/p>\n<p> The shoreline, which includes a<br \/>\nstate campground and sheltered beaches favored by families with young<br \/>\nchildren, has a long history of bacterial-pollution problems, with some<br \/>\nstretches routinely receiving &quot;Fs&quot; in the annual report card on the health of state beaches by the nonprofit organization Heal the Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large swath of the southern Orange County coast remained closed Sunday, five days after a major sewage spill. Officials said they would reopen the O.C. beaches when water quality met state standards for two straight days. An underground sewage main in Rancho Santa Margarita ruptured Tuesday afternoon, sending an estimated 500,000 gallons of raw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}