ON SLOW ROAD TO RECOVERY MANY ROUTES CLOSED AS SIERRA OPENS.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling reopened Monday between Agua Dulce Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations: In Mexico:
The Antelope Valley roads remain closed by damage and runoff continuing from last week's storms. 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 road officials were unable to predict when the closed roads might open, but officials said many were damaged or covered with mud by storm runoff in normally dry Big Rock Wash and Little Rock Wash, which continue to flow with water. ``We're cleaning them up as best we can and as quick as we can,'' said Jeff Harkins, a senior civil engineer with the Los Angeles County Public Works Department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
Sierra Highway reopened before dawn Monday between Vasquez Canyon Road and Agua Dulce Canyon Road. That will help lessen traffic on the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. from commuters forced off side roads such as Sierra, Bouquet Canyon Road, Angeles Forest Highway The Angeles Forest Highway traverses the Angeles National Forest and connects the Los Angeles basin to the Antelope Valley by going up and over the San Gabriel Mountains. The highway is variously known as County Road N-3 or FH-59 or the Palmdale cutoff. It is about 25 miles long. and San Francisquito Canyon Road. But county officials warned they expect traffic congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. to remain heavy, and warned motorists not to drive around barricades closing roads. San Francisquito Canyon Road and Bouquet Canyon Road, both heavily used by Antelope Valley motorists commuting to 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, jobs, could be closed for several months because of washouts, officials said. Water in the creeks they follow is still running too high to allow major reconstruction work to begin, officials said. Angeles Forest Highway was closed by rockslides and Lake Hughes Road Hughes Road is an arterial road in South Mumbai linking Opera House with Kemps Corner. To the left is Malabar Hill. by a washout washout to disperse or empty by flooding with water or other solvent. medullary solute washout a syndrome in which the relative hyperosmolarity of the renal medulla is reduced due to an excessive loss of sodium and chloride from and a mudslide. Lake Hughes Road could be reopened in a month, officials said. County road crews last week reopened Palmdale Boulevard, which is a main route for Lake Los Angeles residents to reach Palmdale, and are working on other secondary roads, Harkins said. Caltrans on Friday reopened Highway 138 where it had been closed by damage from Big Rock Wash. Highway crews were still at work Monday reinforcing the highway's twin bridges with boulders and concrete. Some east valley roads merely had water collected on them but others lost pavement or suffered other structural damage, said California Highway Patrol Sgt. Gil Torres, who on Monday was cataloging Antelope Valley road closures. ``There's pretty serious damage,'' Torres said. On Avenue N near 70th Street East, where a toddler was swept away and killed Jan. 9 after her mother's car got stuck in water 3 or 4 feet deep, one lane of pavement is gone, Torres said. Most other roads that were still closed Monday also sustained structural damage, he said. In Quartz Hill, streets were closed over the weekend because of water being pumped out of retention basins filled by the storms. Damage to county roads in the Antelope Valley alone has been estimated at $20 million, said Public Works official Ray Salehpour. County officials hope the state and federal governments will help reimburse the repair cost. ``We are crossing our fingers,'' Salehpour said. Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 3 photos, box, map Photo: (1 -- color) Crews work along Pearblossom Highway near 165th Street East on Monday to fix one of the small bridges that was damaged in the recent rainstorms. (2) Some workers survey the area around a small bridge that needs to be fixed in the wake of heavy rains that hit Pearblossom earlier in the month. (3) A worker uses heavy equipment to clear out mud near the roadway on Bouquet Canyon Road in Leona Valley. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News Box/Map: ROADS CLOSED SOURCE: Daily News research Gregg Miller/Daily News |
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