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Regional water board backs council motion for faster sewage-spill notification; council moves to include Los Angeles River

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A representative of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board urged the City Council to create a task force to speed public notification of sewage spills after a Nov. 3 unreported spill; the council amended the motion to include spills affecting the Los Angeles River and Tujunga Wash and asked the regional board to participate.

A representative of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board told the Los Angeles City Council on Nov. 13 that the regional board supports a council motion to form a task force to improve public notification of sewage spills and beach closures.

Samuel Unger, a senior water-quality-control engineer with the regional board, told the council the existing notification program "is…

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