Dirty water after storm, sewage spill doesn’t stop some SoCal surfers from catching waves

Surfers faced a dilemma Monday morning, Dec. 2, as one of the season’s best winter swells brought pumping waves to Southern California: Stay out of the water, where recent rainfall brought urban runoff and risk getting sick, or keep dry on shore and drool as the perfect, peaky waves rolled in. For surfers from Malibu down to San Clemente and ...