Oil that appears to have come from a truck working along a street in Laguna Beach’s downtown has closed a roadway for three hours, city officials said.
The incident was first reported around 7:45 a.m. when oil was observed coming from a trash truck on Laguna Avenue between Coast Highway and Ramona Avenue, said Laguna Beach police Sgt. Darrel Short.
Oil was reported on the sidewalk and the roadway, he said.
The city’s Public Works and Water Quality teams are on the scene now, officials said, and hope to capture the oil before it reaches a storm drain.
“It looks it’s nothing major at this point,” Assistant City Manager Jeremy Frimond said.
The location is near Skyloft, a popular restaurant just about a block up from the downtown promenade and about a block from the beach near Hotel Laguna.
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