Seaside Lagoon’s season is saved
The Seaside Lagoon lifeguards, known affectionately as the Slugs, will be back at work this summer. Photo The Seaside Lagoon will open again this summer after the city won an unexpected reprieve from the regulatory agency that had previously threatened up to $21 billion in fines for past water quality violations. The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board last week agreed to the city’s terms for the continued operation of the Seaside Lagoon’s saltwater pool. The LARWQCB on Wednesday issued a four-year “Time Schedule Order” that includes a temporary relaxation of water effluent standards as the city seeks to find a way to make the nearly 50-year-old facility comply with newer environmental law. City officials were happily shocked. The city had received no indication that an agreement was still under consideration. “It came out of the blue,” said City Manager Bill Workman. “It went through the fax, and I went, ‘What the hell is this?’” Mayor Mike Gin said the new order came as an extremely welcome surprise. He called the lagoon’s saltwater pool one of the harbor’s most singular attractions. “It’s so unique,” Gin said. “Where else in the world do you have a seaside park…
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