BRIDGEPORT TO REOPEN TUESDAY GAS-LINE LEAK FOUND 4 FEET UNDERGROUND.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer VALENCIA - Gas Company workers are replacing connections on a gas line under the 2 1/2-year-old Bridgeport Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Valencia, closed much of this week because of a chronic leak. The work is expected to be completed today and school will resume Tuesday - Monday is a holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. School officials smelled a gas leak The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. For other uses, see Leak (disambiguation). a week ago but because of heavy rain over the weekend couldn't get it repaired. On Monday, Principal Evie Gustafson stood in the school driveway in the deluge Deluge (dĕl`y  j), in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark. , turning away parents who hadn't gotten the word that the school was closed. A crew from the utility found a corroded cor·rode v. cor·rod·ed, cor·rod·ing, cor·rodes v.tr. 1. To destroy a metal or alloy gradually, especially by oxidation or chemical action: acid corroding metal. connection 4 feet underground, said Judy Fish, superintendent of the Saugus Union School District The Saugus Union School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Saugus, Valencia, and Canyon Country communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California. As of March 25,2006, it has 15 elementary schools. . ``The connection actually had a hole in it,'' she said. Repairs, delayed by heavy rain and school, resumed Wednesday. But when the gas main was turned on again, the odor odor (o´der) a volatile emanation perceived by the sense of smell. o·dor n. 1. The property or quality of a thing that affects, stimulates, or is perceived by the sense of smell. returned. School officials turned off the gas main again. ``We didn't have heat, but fortunately, Wednesday was relatively warm,'' Fish said. An emergency school board meeting was called Wednesday night and the board agreed to shut down the school for two days so all the connections - damaged or not - could be replaced and the lines further tested. Fish said the district would likely ask the state for a waiver The voluntary surrender of a known right; conduct supporting an inference that a particular right has been relinquished. The term waiver is used in many legal contexts. so the 925 pupils won't have to make up the four days of school they missed. The cause of the leaks is being investigated, but the timing indicates the damage could have been caused by the storm, she said. Patricia Farrell Aidem, (661) 257-5251 pat.aidem(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Above, David Therasse, left, and Tony DiTommaso of the Saugus Union District remove the concrete over a leaking gas line at Bridgeport Elementary School on Thursday. District employee Robert Ammerman, above left, digs a hole so the line can be repaired. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer |
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