What is happening in San Diego? Now the beaches are closed! The official reason given is: sewage in the water.

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[–]Alienhunter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Pretty sure the only difference between the two cities sewage systems is the length of the pipe dumping shit into the ocean.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

San Diego processes wastewater https://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/water-101/where-does-our-water-go

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"Here in San Diego County, there are several wastewater treatment plants of various sizes that work to process and discharge our wastewater. The largest of these is the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant, which currently processes over 150 million gallons of wastewater each day before discharging the partially treated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean through a deep ocean outfall several miles off the coast of Point Loma."

So they aren't dumping raw sewage straight into the ocean. They're dumping "partially treated" sewage several miles away from where people will see it.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You wouldn't even know the difference between once-treated water and well water or river water. It's cleanish