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About 10,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled into Lake Murray on Friday after a sewer main backed up through a manhole at Cowles Mountain Boulevard and Navajo Road, San Diego County spokesman Gary Stephany said Friday.
The 9 a.m. spill was caused by tree roots that blocked the sewer main, Stephany said.
The spill occurred at the far end of the Lake Murray Water Treatment Plant, and the plant’s water intake was shut off “long before any contamination could enter the drinking water supply,” Stephany said. “The spill poses no public health hazard.”
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