DISASTER RELIEF COMING TO AREA; FEDERAL AID MADE AVAILABLE.Byline: Teresa Jimenez Daily News Staff Writer The city of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, and residents who have suffered property damage from the El Nino storms will be able to receive help now that the federal government has declared Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County a disaster area. City officials received the news about 3 p.m. Thursday. Adele Macpherson, emergency preparedness pre·par·ed·ness n. The state of being prepared, especially military readiness for combat. Noun 1. preparedness - the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action); "putting them manager for the city, said staff members had been calling all day to see if the city would qualify for financial assistance. The City Council on Tuesday committed $650,000 to repair streets and trails damaged in the latest storms. City and county officials put repairs of the Bouquet Canyon Road bridge, expected to cost about $500,000, at the top of the list. The stretch between Newhall Ranch Road and Soledad Canyon Soledad Canyon is a long narrow canyon / valley located in Los Angeles County, California between the cities of Palmdale and Santa Clarita. Soledad Canyon contains the localities of Vincent, Acton, Ravenna, and Agua Dulce. Road has been closed since Tuesday, when a sinkhole sinkhole or sink or doline Depression formed as underlying limestone bedrock is dissolved by groundwater. Sinkholes vary greatly in area and depth and may be very large. 15 feet wide was discovered. The city and county will split repair costs, and the federal declaration clears the way for local government to get back some money in disaster aid, Macpherson said. ``It helps residents, and it assists us as a city to repair the Bouquet bridge and the trail,'' Macpherson said. ``There's a partnership. The federal government will pay a percentage, the state will pay a percentage, and we'll still pay some.'' Those in the private sector also will be able to get some disaster relief, officials said. The city on Wednesday estimated damage to private property at more than $5 million. Some homeowners were still waiting to see if they would need the federal assistance. Information is available by calling the city's Community Services Division at 286-4165. Residents of a home on Fairgate Avenue in the Friendly Valley area were forced to evacuate e·vac·u·ate v. 1. To empty or remove the contents of. 2. To excrete or discharge waste matter, especially of the bowels. Thursday morning because of a mudslide threat near their property, city Building Official Ruben Barrera said. ``It hasn't crashed into the house, but it is moving,'' Barrera said. ``We're afraid the slide may give way and hurt somebody. We told them to pack up some clothes and valuables.'' The site was one of several trouble spots that city crews were watching as the area recovered from the last El Nino storm that drenched drench tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es 1. To wet through and through; soak. 2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal). 3. the ground. Chunks of earth threatened to slide onto Poppy poppy, common name for some members of the Papaveraceae, a family composed chiefly of herbs of the Northern Hemisphere having a characteristic milky or colored sap. Meadow Street in the northeast area of the city. On Bougainvillia Way in Canyon Country, mud has already crashed into one homeowner's back yard, Barrera said. ``We're still monitoring that because there's a boulder on top there,'' Barrera said. |
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