On Tuesday, Alexis Brown, deputy city manager of Malibu, stated that the site will not be available for the EPA to use as a secondary transfer site as the agency had been seeking to do.

There have probably been a few winter pileups on PCH caused by surfers slamming on their brakes, stunned at the sight of Malibu's empty brown perfection. To a daredevil few, the E. coli warnings ...