California IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Part of Polluted Coast Reopened

San Diego County health officials have lifted a quarantine on almost half of the 20 miles of coastline that were closed after a ruptured outfall pipe and raw sewage from Mexico combined to contaminate beaches. The ban was lifted on about nine miles of beaches when Mexican sewage pumps were restarted after being idled since Feb. 7 by heavy rains. The coast from the tip of Point Loma to the mouth of the San Diego River remained closed, officials said, because of a leak of 180 million gallons per day of treated sewage from the city of San Diego’s ocean discharge pipe, which is broken about three quarters of a mile from shore.