Morro Bay’s magnificent beauty mystics an uncomfortable truth.

Morro Bay’s magnificent beauty mystics an uncomfortable truth. Our coastal waters contain partly treated sewage that artificial positions an unacceptable risk to all who swim in them, including the threatened and iconic California sea otter

Operating for brace decades under a "waiver" that excuses it from meeting national standards for clean water, the Morro Bay/Cayucos wastewater treatment plant has dump bacteria and other pollutants distant from our coast. Now, Morro Bay and Cayucos public officials want to give the plant nearly 10 more years to clean up its act.

The region’s magnificent marine ecosystem may not be able to wait that prolonged and there’s no reason it should.

Even the treatment plant’s avow staff say the cleanup can be done quicker, and other Central Coast communities have upgraded their plants in half the time. In fact, the law says sewage treatment upgrades must be done