LA treatment plant discharges 17 MILLION gallons of sewage
07/15/2021 / By Ramon Tomey
A water treatment plant in Los Angeles, California was forced to discharge 17 million gallons of sewage into the ocean. The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant unloaded the sewage as an “emergency measure” on July 11 after it was clogged with debris. The incident caused the indefinite closure of about four miles of beaches from El Segundo to the southern end of Playa del Rey.
The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant has served as LA’s largest and oldest wastewater treatment plant, first starting operations in 1894. It had been expanded and improved numerous times during its operations spanning more than a century.
Hyperion Executive Plant Manager Timeyin Dafeta elaborated on the circumstances of the July 11 incident. In a statement released July 12, he explained that the plant became inundated with “overwhelming quantities of debris” on the afternoon of July 11. The plant was then forced to discharge 17 million gallons of sewage to prevent further discharge of more raw sewage.
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