DWP defends response to UCLA flood, says crews had to find valve

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Source: LA Times

A top Los Angeles utility official faced tough questions Tuesday night about the response to a massive pipe break that flooded UCLA and surrounding areas with millions of gallons of water and threatened the near-term use of Pauley Pavilion.

The rupture of the 90-year-old main sent a geyser shooting 30 feet in the air and deluged Sunset Boulevard and UCLA with 8 million to 10 million gallons of water before it was shut off more than three hours after the pipe burst, city officials said.

The huge break blanketed parts of the campus with water and mud, leaving school officials with a daunting cleanup task. City officials said they had not determined what caused the 30-inch-diameter pipe to burst.

Motorists were urged to avoid Sunset Boulevard on Wednesday morning because crews would be still be repairing the line.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-flooding-on-sunset-near-ucla-20140729-story.html

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[mnhtnbb]

1. There's going to be lots more of this. The pipes were laid in 1921.

[JDPriestly]

2. And -- in the middle of a water crisis.

The infrastructure in our country needs serious repair.

[PatrynXX]

11. oh gosh but we need those 50 jobs for the XL Pipeline

do'h. oh but Republicans have turned into King Arthur for the moment so we'll let shit go to disrepair thats killing out economy

[AngryDem001]

12. And we need to give $225M to Israel!

Priorities, people!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Luckily, there is no shortage of water

In LA.

[TeamPooka]

6. We are very good at creating droughts here.

[Louisiana1976]

4. I was just on Twitter. Someone tweeted that this water main break and the flooding it caused

gave global climate change deniers ammunition about the California drought.

[TeamPooka]

5. UCLA now stands for Underwater College of Los Angeles. nt

[flamingdem]

18. LOL!

The LA version of a fire hydrant party

[quadrature]

7. SURFS UP ! ...nt

[SCVDem]

8. If I have a lawn sprinkler which

happens to be mis-timed or somehow damaged, I can get a ticket. Over watering is illegal!

Can we send a fine to Boehner for sabotaging every bill designed to repair and replace our aged infrastructure?
It just isn't right watching all that water being wasted. I guess if they try to turn it off, the pressure could rupture many other pipes. This will take hours.

This could just as easily been the Brooklyn Bridge or so many others. We are third world!

I guess the GOP/TP want the refugees to feel right at home.

[Agschmid]

9. Some pictures in this thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025308843

[Pharaoh]

10. Infastructure!

you dumb ass republican idiots!!

And........it would create jobs!.............

A no brainer!

[AngryDem001]

13. Repukes consider job creation a BAD thing.

[Agschmid]

14. Hmmm...

Netscape, and Babylon 5 your not my father are you?

[Dreamer Tatum]

16. Can anything ever just break?

Also...since when was LA or California the province of Republicans?

[Igel]

15. Think of it as restoring an original water course.

There's a bricked over stream that flows under UCLA.

Or so the story goes.

http://militantangeleno.blogspot.com/2011/08/river-ran-through-it-in-search-rivers.html

[JDPriestly]

17. Lots of those in the LA area.

There is one in my area. Apparently Pasadena took the water and by the time it got to us there wasn't much if any water left. Los Angeles has a lot of stories to tell about water, precious water.

[C Moon]

19. I guess it's because I notice it more during droughts:

But it seems we always have these huge water main breaks during times of water shortage. As for this one, the last I heard (about a half hour ago) it was up to 50 million gallons of water. FROCK!

...and there was another big one a couple days ago.

[ReRe]

20. Ouch

Chalk up another fracture in the 'infracktructure.'