VALLEY WATER MAINS SOAK NEIGHBORHOODS.Byline: Anne Burke Daily News Staff Writer Most of Los Angeles got a respite from the wet weather Monday, but two west San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. neighborhoods were 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. all over again by broken water mains. ``It was scary. I've never seen water that powerful,'' said Sylvan sylvan emanating from or pertaining to woods. See also sylvatic. Street resident Donna Heym, whose back yard was doused early Monday morning by runoff from a broken water main in the 24000 block of Calvert Street, between Platt Avenue and Valley Circle. The 8-inch cast-iron pipe broke about 6:15 a.m., sending a geyser geyser (gī`zər) [Icel.], hot spring from which water and steam are ejected periodically to heights ranging from a few to several hundred feet. shooting 6 feet in the air and opening a 4-foot 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. . There were no reports of homes flooding. By late morning, the hole had enlarged to about 20 feet by 30 feet, as Department of Water and Power employees worked to repair the pipe. About the same time Monday morning, a second water main broke on Wyandotte Street near Loma Verde Avenue in Canoga Park, opening a 5-foot-by-10-foot hole. Repairs on both street were expected to be completed by today, said DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection spokeswoman Karen Shepard-Grimes. On Sunday, a broken water main opened a sinkhole on Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Erwin Street, also in the West Valley, near Warner Center. Shepard-Grimes said the cluster of breakages occurred because the pipes all were installed in the early 1950s and simultaneously had become weakened by cold weather. On Calvert Street, Heym said she called a DWP emergency line about 6:15 a.m. to report the breakage. But nobody arrived until about an hour later, and it was another half-hour before the water was shut off, she said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Workers operate on a sinkhole that opened Monday in Woodland Hills after a water main broke, sending water gushing through yards of nearby homes. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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