WATER MAIN BREAKS, FLOODS SIMI STREET : DETOUR NEEDED AROUND SINKHOLE ON MADERA ROAD.Byline: Teresa Jiminez Daily News Staff Writer Two lanes of Madera Road were expected to be open by today following Saturday's street flooding caused by a water pipe break that left 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. the size of a small swimming pool. A construction crew was repairing the damage early Easter morning, and traffic had to be detoured around Madera Road between 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. Avenue and Royal Avenue from Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. Calleguas Municipal Water District officials still were unsure what caused the breakage that occurred about 4:20 p.m. Water rose about 4 feet high, but no one was injured, officials said. About 50 people in houses, apartments and condominiums on side streets and bottom-level rooms at the Clarion Hotel had to evacuate until the flood threat passed, said Pam Sears, a dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. with the Ventura County Fire Department Not to be confused with Ventura Fire Department. The Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) provides fire protection and emergency response services for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, and for six other cities within the county. . Most people were able to return in the evening. Several homes suffered water damage, officials said. Water district officials were able to react quickly, since repairmen had been working at the time of the breakage just up the street at Wood Ranch Parkway, said Gary Haggin, operations supervisor for the water district. ``They pretty much saw it happen,'' Haggin said. ``It happened pretty quickly.'' A pipe that feeds water to areas in Moorpark had to be shut down about 6 p.m. Saturday while immediate repairs were made, Haggin said. Water service was restored to the Moorpark areas about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, but pressure remained low, authorities said. Water trucks were sent to the area Saturday evening in case of an emergency fire, Sears said. The broken pipe, a 66-inch main line, was about 10 feet underground, officials said. ``The water pressure just blew open the ground,'' Haggin said. The last water pipe breakage occurred during the Northridge Earthquake The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California. The earthquake had a "strong" moment magnitude of 6. , Haggin said. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Color only in Conejo and Simi editions) A water pipe that broke Saturday left a sinkhole the size of a swimming pool Sunday on Madera Road. (2--Ran only in Conejo and Simi editions--Color) Workers clear away the center divider divider See European currency quotation. on Madera Road to create a detour around the flooded street. Michael Owen
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