Activist retracts words against Pepperdine MALIBU, Calif., May 4 (UPI) -- Pepperdine University in California agreed to drop a lawsuit against an environmental activist who retracted pollution allegations he made against the school. In two videos he had posted online, Cary ONeal said the university was responsible for a foamy discharge flowing down Marie Canyon Creek and onto a Malibu beach in late March, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. The discharge, ONeal said, came from the Malibu Mesa Water Reclamation Facility a few hundred yards upstream. The facility is used by Pepperdine, which filed a libel lawsuit against ONeal. "I acknowledge that these statements were inaccurate," Oneal said in a statement. Pepperdine does not operate the Malibu Mesa Water Reclamation Facility. I have been advised, and believe, that the county did not discharge sewage or sewage effluent from Malibu Mesa onto a Malibu beach on March 25. ... I am grateful that Pepperdine has agreed to dismiss the lawsuit ... . Pepperdine spokesman Jerry Derloshon said the school was satisfied with the retraction. "It was a false statement and it was made very public," Derloshon said. We're pleased with the result. Derloshon said the source of the foamy discharge remains a mystery. ONeal agreed. He said he and other environmentalists intend to determine the cause.