Another water main breaking — this time in Encino

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By Michelle Tepper

The break occurred about 2:45 a.m. in the 5600 block of Wish Avenue. The cause of the break was not immediately clear.

Since Sept. 1, there have been more than 30 “major blowouts” in L.A.’s water system in which streets have flooded and pavement has buckled.

City engineers trying to determine what’s causing the water main bursts have been taking soil samples, sending pipe pieces to labs and performing a statistical analysis on each break. (How much is this costing us?)

But some experts said a prime suspect should be the city’s recent decision to allow sprinkling only on Mondays and Thursdays.

They said that if more water flows through the system on those two days, then pressure suddenly changes on other days, it could put added stress on already aging pipes. (Sounds logical)

But city engineers have expressed doubts about that theory and said they simply don’t know the cause. While major blowouts of mains is up, water main breaks overall in L.A. are down.

Story Courtesy of Shelby Grad, L.A. Now
Comments in parenthesis Courtesy of Michelle Tepper, Encino Home Sales Realtor

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