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Santa Barbara County’s Health Department closed part of East Beach on December 24 due to a sewage spill.
In a press release yesterday, the department said about 4500 gallons of sewage spilled due to a pump bypass failure on the 2700 block of De La Vina Street. The sewage made contact with the ocean, and the department closed East beach from the ¼-mile east to ⅛ mile west of the Mission Creek’s outfall (where its waters flow into the ocean)…