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Posted on 08/07/2025 4:20:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- More than 9,200 Department of Water and Power customers in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch remained without water service Thursday while the utility scrambled to repair a broken underground valve -- a job that could last through the weekend.
The affected area is bounded roughly by Rinaldi Avenue on the south, Balboa Boulevard on the east, De Soto Avenue on the west and the foothills and hills to the north, according to the DWP.
According to the agency, water crews were conducting repair work on Tuesday at a pump station that connects to a 10 million-gallon water tank that serves the area when a valve that controls the flow of water failed to open.
"As a result, the water flowing from the tank into the pipes serving the area was cut off," according to a DWP statement.
Crews immediately embarked on repair efforts, digging to reach the valve that is located about 20 feet underground. DWP officials originally said the repairs could take until Friday, but later said the project could "take through this weekend to be completed." The utility noted that the location of the broken valve also has two underground oil pipelines, a fiber optic line, gas line and large boulders that "have complicated repair efforts."
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“we need to stop normalizing dysfunction” - some tweet I read by an American who just returned from Japan and was shocked by how behind we are infrastructurally.
Half repairs! I think there’s an endangered worm species in the ground there!
For some reason, these things happen lot in LA.
What do you say, mayor Bass?
Newscum wants California to be more like Jackson, Mississippi.
Governor Newsom, Mayor Bass both. Following a legacy.
Rich and middle class homes just waiting to
become the next low income housing.
It is still fire season.
Yup, and that area is particularly vulnerable to wild fires.
“ Yup, and that area is particularly vulnerable to wild fires.”
Yep, I used to live just south of Rinaldi.
The hills in that area are very vulnerable to wildfires.
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