We have yet another broken water main in the city of West Hollywood–this time at the corner of Melrose Avenue and Robertson Boulevard. Water flushed down Robertson Boulevard at roughly 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. A city worker said Beverly Hills Water Division was on the scene about an hour after the break. Water was shut off east of Robertson Boulevard for most of the evening.
This is the third water main break in the past two months. There could be more that were unreported.
Photo by Paulo Murillo for WEHO TIMES
Photo by Paulo Murillo for WEHO TIMESOn June 19th a broken water main flooded Santa Monica Boulevard in front of WeHo City Hall, at 8300 Santa Monica Boulevard, on the corner of Sweetzer Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard at roughly 6:30 a.m. The water leak forced a lane closure and water outage at the City Hall Building, according to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) worker who was directing traffic into one single lane.
A water main also broke in less than a week prior at the alley behind Heart WeHo Nightclub. It flooded San Vicente Boulevard at the Santa Monica Boulevard intersection flooding the area around the Progress Rainbow Crosswalks in the heart of the LGBT Rainbow District. Water and dirt covered the intersection and some community members needed assistance to cross the street.
City of West Hollywood got the word out earlier in June that new Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) water conservation rules now in effect. All LADWP customers — residential and commercial — are now limited to two-days-a-week outdoor watering as well as other water use restrictions. LADWP customers with street addresses ending in odd-numbers may water on Mondays and Fridays and customers with even-numbered street addresses may water on Thursdays and Sundays, before 9 a.m. or after 4 p.m. LADWP’s new rules call for no watering between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., regardless of the day.
New LADWP restrictions also include two recommended practices: the use of pool covers to prevent evaporation, and the washing of vehicles at commercial car wash facilities. Hand watering is allowed every day before 9 a.m. and after 4 p.m. if the hose is equipped with a self-closing water shut-off device.
Existing water conservation practices continue to be in place:
Limiting outdoor watering with sprinklers to eight minutes per station on permitted watering days
Watering with sprinklers using water-conserving nozzles for up to 15 minutes, twice a day, on the permitted watering day
No water should flow off of property
No water should leak from any pipe or fixture
No watering within 48 hours after a measurable rain event
No hosing of driveway or sidewalk
No washing of vehicles using a hose without a self-closing nozzle
More information on the new watering days is available at www.ladwp.com/wateringdays.
A vagrant trying to divert water from my apartment building turned off all water to the building in the middle of the night.
The water company says this happens all the time. So, while we are sleeping, the folks on the street are stealing from us in any way they can.
I would prefer a water main break to the wilful act of a professional thief.