Riverside Place: Dawn

Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, January 8, 2016.  LA DWP restored water service to Riverside Place at 7:45 this morning, after working on the broken water main since 9 last night.  The same crew was still cleaning up at 9:15 this morning.

Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, January 8, 2015.  Riverside Place is already a narrow street to begin with, it's also a substandard hillside street without a regulation turnaround, and only one means of vehicle access.  If you were trapped on this side of the water main break, you could only get out on foot or on bicycle.
 

Riverside Place: Water Main Break

Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, January 7, 2016, 8PM.  Water is now shut off after neighbors reported a water main break on Riverside Place to the DWP.  

Vandiveer wrote in an email, "It was really weird because the water was coming up like fountains, about 4-8” high, all along the edges of the asphalt in several dozen places (not exaggerating), just the sides/edges of the street where the asphalt ends."

Report water main breaks, power lines down and power failures 24/7: 1-800-DIAL-DWP.  You can try their website for more info, but it's a bit cumbersome: www.LADWP.com

As if the first El Niño storms didn't bring enough water to the neighborhood this week...