BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS

Due to a sewage spill, about 600 feet of coastline off Crystal Cove

State Park was closed to swimming and surfing Tuesday, the Orange County

Health Care Agency’s Environmental Health Department reported.

A sewer line break in the state’s El Morro Beach mobile home park

sewage collection system occurred during an excavation, reported Larry

Honeybourne of the county health care agency. The area -- located 300

feet north and 300 feet south of El Moro Canyon Creek -- will remain

closed until it “meets acceptable standards,” Honeybourne reported in a

released statement Tuesday.

The mobile home park is part of the California Department of Parks and

Recreation.