VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A sewage spill in Virginia Beach’s Broad Bay Island neighborhood has prompted health officials to temporarily ban the harvesting and consumption of shellfish from nearby waters.

Residents reported a foul odor Saturday night after a pump house along Broad Bay Road began leaking sewage.

Neighbor Craig Campbell, who lives next to the site, said he noticed water gushing from the building.

“We came out and looked, and water was gushing from the sewage processing building, which is right behind those trees,” Campbell said. “It was filling that guy’s yard, coming under that white fence and pouring into the canal.”

According to the Virginia Department of Health, a leaking hose inside the pump house caused the spill. Sewage leaked into a neighboring yard before entering Br

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