LOS ANGELES (AP) " The Latest on a Los Angeles sewage spill that has forced closure of some beaches (all times local):10:15 a.m.A Long Beach official says the first test of the city's ocean water following a sewage spill has come back clean. Kerr says the clean sample suggests sewage from Monday's burst pipe 20 miles upriver in Los Angeles didn't make it to Long Beach. The pipe rupture 20 miles north near downtown Los Angeles spilled 2.4 million gallons of sewage. The pipe rupture near downtown Los Angeles spilled 2.4 million gallons of sewage. An estimated 750,000 gallons were contained or vacuumed up, but some of the rest may have reached Long Beach harbor.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 20, 2016 15:22 UTC