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For the 13th consecutive year, Orange County beach closures due to sewage spills continued a trend below a 38-year average, according to the latest OC Health Care Agency report.

There were 71 sewage spills reported last year, which was below the 38-year average of 178 annually, according to the report. Of those, 4% led to shutdowns of ocean access.

The main cause of the sewage spills are blocked pipelines. Since 1999, 61% of the beach closures were the result of blocked pipelines.

The main causes of the pipeline blockages are infiltration of roots (31%) and grease buildup (25%), with the rest unknown.

The rate of sewage waste spills “has trended down over the past 10 years,” according to the report.

“The decrease is due to the wastewater collection agencies adopting Sewer System Management Plans, which require routine inspection, maintenance and rehabilitation of aging sewers,” according to the report.

Last year, warnings to beachgoers for excess bacteria in the water — known as Beach Mile Days — went up 28 times. From 2000 to 2012, the average annually was 205, but “over the past 12 years the average number of posted warnings dropped significantly to 40 (beach mile days) a year,” according to the report.

Last year, Bolsa Chica Beach, Crystal Cove State Beach and Capistrano County Beach avoided any of the beach mile days from April 1 to Halloween.

“Excellent bacteriological water quality (less than one beach mile days) was recorded at Seal Beach/Surfside/Sunset Beach, Huntington City Beach, Huntington State Beach, Newport Beach, Newport Slough, Dana Point Beach, Capistrano Bay District and San Clemente Beach monitoring locations from April 1 to October 31,” according to the report.

The beaches that exceeded four beach mile days from the same time period were Doheny State Beach with 11.3 and Poche County Beach with four.

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  1. THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
    HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
    You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
    Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
    GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
    These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION,  FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE !  IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT  FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
    My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
    It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
    That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
    Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING  A  FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE  ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.

    Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?

    Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.

    In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.

    There’s  $75 million in a offshore bank account
    There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday

    5754 Lindero Canyon Rd, Westlake Village, CA 91362

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