Here's an update on las month's horrendous San Francisco Bay sewage spill. Iinitial reports put the spill at 5.2 million gallons. It has now been discovered that the spill was in fact much larger and as much as 7.5 million gallons spilled into the Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The wastewater deposited into Calera Creek, and subsequently the ocean, contained everything from fats and oils to heavy metals and anything else flushed into the sewer system that day. California's public notification and reporting requirements are better than most states, but all it takes is an incident like the Marin County spill to point out the flaws in the system. Regardless of whether the inaccurate assessment of the size of the Marin County spill was deliberate or whether authorities were unable to make a sound assessment of the spill highlights sewage spill notification and stricty enforcement of notification laws are critical to protecting the public health.