10,000 gallons of sewage spilled at Morro Bay park along Highway 1
About 10,000 gallons of wastewater leaked from a sewage pipe in Morro Bay that runs beneath Highway 1, according to the city’s utilities department and the San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department.
The leak began sometime between Thursday and Monday afternoon near a lift station at Cloisters Community Park on Coral Avenue, Greg Kwolek, the city’s public works director told The Tribune. The park sits between Highway 1 and Morro Strand State Park in northern Morro Bay.
The sewage leak has been contained in a ditch between the highway and Coral Avenue, Kwolek said.
Residents are advised to stay away from the area, the county Public Health Department noted in a news release sent out on Monday afternoon.
Although the city hasn’t located the exact location of where the sewage line break happened, a contractor was headed to the site Tuesday to assess the situation, Kwolek said.
In the meantime, the city is diverting wastewater normally received by the lift station next to the park. The sewage will be contained to on-site storage tanks and then trucked to the city’s wastewater treatment plant, Kwolek said.
“There is no immediate threat to the public through this discharge of wastewater at this time as the discharge has been contained and has not entered any body of water,” Kwolek wrote in a Monday news release from the Morro Bay Public Works Department. “The public may continue to use Cloisters Park, but it is advised that the public keep their distance from any barricaded areas and be alert of equipment and personnel working around the Cloisters multi-use path until the situation has been remedied.”
This story was originally published April 11, 2022 at 6:08 PM.
