Huntington State Beach was shut down in the immediate aftermath of the spill, with the oil slick impacting a nearly six-mile stretch from the Huntington Beach pier to the Balboa Pier. The Santa Ana River jetty to the Huntington Beach Pier is also closed, and the oil infiltrated the Talbert Marshlands.
Officials in Newport Beach asked people not to enter the water on October 3, but stopped short of closing the ocean to the public. In Laguna Beach, the city closed beaches to the public at 9 p.m. on October 3. At some point, all beaches and fisheries from Huntington Beach to Dana Point Harbor were closed — some for more than a week.