The Region - News from April 21, 1987

Swimmers who were kept away from Long Beach beaches over the warm holiday weekend because of possible pollution from a sewage spill were allowed back in the water after tests showed that the area was not contaminated. Long Beach Marine Patrol Supt. James Page said about 350 gallons of raw sewage flowed from a manhole and poured into Alamitos Bay late Friday when a sewer line backed up, but Long Beach health officer Rugmini Shah said the beaches were closed “only as a precaution, not because we thought there would be a problem. We just did not want to take any risks.” The tests, he said, disclosed that no dangerous pollution level had resulted from the spill.