After heavy rains, Santa Monica Canyon residents were alarmed to hear a loud rumbling sound in the channel behind their homes on February 16.
Water rushed up the sides of the concrete walls in the Santa Monica Canyon Storm Control Channel – and had the rain not stopped when it did, water could have poured into neighboring yards and onto the streets.
When the rain and water subsided, huge slabs of concrete and mud could be seen piled in the channel.
The Channels are under County jurisdiction and residents were told by County Public Works field engineers it was concrete overlay that was installed in the 1970s that peeled off. Once the rain stopped, residents were told that dump trucks would be on hand to haul the material.
Now it appears the County is employing a quicker method. The mud debris is being pushed towards the ocean.
Residents reported, “They are bringing the debris/mud all the way down the Channel and dumping it by Short Street and then taking some further down towards the ocean and then taking some back up towards Amalfi (where the dump truck was located.)”
Lindsey Horvath’s office was contacted on Saturday, March 7, and asked if the County had received permission to dump dirt debris under the bike path bridge, where further rains would push it into the ocean.
She had not replied when this article was posted. When she does the story will be updated.
