The view from outside:@cbsla Neighbors did what they could with sandbags to help 74-year-old Firozeh Daneshiansani as her West Hollywood neighborhood filled with water during major overnight flooding caused by a water main break. CBS Los Angeles photojournalist Michael McGregor found Daneshiansani in distress after she called police for help early Thursday morning. The major water main break in Los Angeles began around 2:30 a.m. and lasted several hours, flooding apartments, filling parking garages and opening up a massive sinkhole in West Hollywood.
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@accuweather A water main break in West Hollywood, California, flooded streets and created a massive sinkhole near Sunset Boulevard on Thursday.
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Ugh. That's awful.
Vote for 3rd world democratics - get 3rd world results.
What did she think the police were going to do? Where was the Landlord?
Shame it wasn't the Fire Hydrant line that broke. That wouldn't have flooded everything ...
If Spencer Pratt was still in the race he could have had a great slogan to highlight the municipal incompetence. Remember the main!
Aakash Gupta
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The 100 year old pipe that just sinkholed Sunset Boulevard was already on LA's replacement list. Construction was scheduled for 2031.
LADWP budgeted $280 million to replace 6.4 miles of this exact 36-inch trunk line. The project is still in the design phase. Work starts in 2031 and finishes in 2035. The pipe burst 5 years before the first crew would have touched it.
The replacement math explains why this keeps happening. Last fiscal year, LADWP's goal was to replace 1.1 miles of trunk pipe. They replaced less than one. LA has roughly 550 miles of trunk line. Even at the department's new target of 3.5 miles a year, each mile gets replaced once every 157 years.
Riveted steel pipe lasts about 100.
And Sunset Boulevard has run this exact experiment before. In 2014, a trunk line from 1921 ruptured under Sunset near UCLA and sent roughly 20 million gallons through campus, submerging Pauley Pavilion. That break is what made LA's aging pipes national news and launched the current replacement program.
Twelve years later: same street, same vintage of pipe, same aerial footage.
Cities schedule pipe replacement on political time. Pipes fail on material time. LA is replacing 100 year pipes on a 157 year cycle, and this morning is what the gap between those two numbers looks like.
Spencer Pratt
"Notice how Nithya Raman just completely disappeared after they blocked us out of the general election?
She's not campaigning at all. Like a pickpocket disappearing into the crowd. Just a ghost. I told you her campaign was a scam. Colluding with Bass from the start."
who has money for pipe repair when there's a non-existent train to nowhere to fund.
Plus Gavin's wife needs tax payer funding - too.
Karen Bass needs more tax payer funded excursions to communist celebration Potemkin villages. Those nifty package deals don't fund themselves.
"LADWP budgeted $280 million to replace 6.4 miles of this exact 36-inch trunk line."
$280M.
$44M/mile.
Hard to believe a 100 year-old pipe under the street carries that much water 24/7, and just now broke. A lot of infrastructure is some kind of magic.
O Mike - they cannot get to it.
Budget, But do nothing. That's the democratic way.
Must fund Illegals, meth teeth, fake homelessness solutions - that only add more homelessness to the populations...
Gavin is too busy blowing up dams so his son can go fishing on the river.
You could readily bet the mortgage payment thar if Karen Bass had seen a way to advance communism by repairing that pipe in a timely fashion, then that pipe would have been repaired.
Communism means - elite politicians get paid first.
Peachy+3 at 12:45. They voted for this, or at least they aren’t willing to fight to prove otherwise. However, I have to give them credit… they managed to put water into the mains… at least for awhile.
As point of comparison to Original Mike’s comment about LA fixing their water supply; Katy TX has spent the last few years and $1.2 billion to lay 2 90” water mains 55 miles across Houston to bring fresh surface water to the west side of greater Houston. That’s $22m/mile.
LA is only doing 6.4 miles with a single 36” pipe. And if you’re in the business of pipelines, you know cost estimates are based on $ per (nominal diameter x distance). Katy is spending $120k/in-mi. LA is spending $1215k/in-mi.
Ha! I' m actually trying to get a plumber over here to look at a leaky water line outside right now. It' not quite that bad but I had to leave a message, so I can sympathize.
It is (and apparently was to remain) in the "design phase" until 2031? Dig a trench, drop the pipe in, rivet it together, fill the trench, done - its a friggin' PIPE!
I wonder how many millions of dollars per mile go solely into the "design."
So L.A. is spending over 10X as much as Katy, TX.
How do they do it? Not Katy - I know how they do it, but how does L.A. spend that much money, and we know the cost will likely triple before it's done. It's some kind of superpower.
Fueron advertidas...muchas muchas veces.
"I wonder how many millions of dollars per mile go solely into the "design.""
5% for many major projects pre-FID, which means all the design prior to procurement to begin fabrication of the pipeline. However, if during that time you need to obtain permits that require environmental impact studies; then that percentage will climb. As this is California, I expect it is a bit more than 5%.
The rich people leave first. The professional class, second. The middle class, those who can, last. This leaves the reigning powers in charge of a population that has fewer options, with respect to mobility.
Now, take that list, and rank, in general terms, on intelligence and savviness. The winnowing process is not exacting, but it is predictable. The people that are left are more poorly equipped to understand the nature of their governance, and to evaluate it critically. Over time, a suffering but unquestioning, docile herd becomes a norm. Look at Venezuela. People over the past 10 years have lost weight because of a lack of food. And yet, no riots, no revolution. Just resigned suffering. This is NYC's future, and LA's, too. The loss of the ultra-rich strips the tax base, yes, but it is also getting rid of the people that know how the levers of power work. A competitive threat.
A water main broke in front of a building I own. I called the Village and I'm like, "there's a huge gusher of water in the right of way in front of my building." Well, the bureaucrat I spoke with was, "is it on your property?". And I said no, it's on the right of way. Well, this made her very, very mad... at me. Like I did it or something!
Vote fraud was clear as day in the LA mayor elections.
Ranked choice and ranked voting gives the corrupt left more avenues.
"LADWP budgeted $280 million to replace 6.4 miles of this exact 36-inch trunk line"
$44 million/mile. That's four times what it costs to repave an eight lane freeway.
I've had some dealings with the City of Madison Water Utility lately. They've been excellent.
Now the low-life contractor who poured the driveway over the water shut-off valve 65 years ago, well, let's just say I find some solace in the fact that he's probably below the frost line now.
Does design include building steel mill to mfr pipe?
Several commenters have mentioned that complex systems will not survive the competency crisis. They won't.
I wonder how much the UW's 48-inch water line break is costing to fix. I suppose that has to be done by the time classes start.
How can LA possibly pay for water main repairs when there are so many illegal aliens that need sex change operations?
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