Meanwhile, crews blocked off a portion of Wrightwood Drive in Studio City on Thursday morning after a torrent of mud tumbled onto the roadway. ⬇️ /tbh3egHnb8- Scripps Institution of Oceanography March 29, 2023 Here is the map of where and when they all hit. We have #AtmosphericRivers to thank for all this recent rain! □️ The team from says we are at 31 atmospheric river events so far this water year (11 weak, 13 moderate, 6 strong, 1 extreme). In Pasadena, a smaller hole developed Wednesday on the southbound side of the 710 Freeway at the California Boulevard offramp, the Pasadena Police Department said.Ĭity Councilman Steve Madison, whose district represents the area, said crews were working on a temporary repair that will allow single-lane access, but that full repairs probably won’t be completed until next week. “At some point, we’re going to have to remove that soil and then rebuild the slope,” he said. Aerial footage showed a widening hole as a portion of the freeway crumbled to pieces and slid down a hill.īischoff said geotechnical crews will evaluate the situation and make a plan for repair. The sinkhole near Castaic - located along the 5 Freeway about 2 miles north of Templin Highway - resulted in partial lane closures in both directions, with no estimated time of reopening. “All of these are from the relentless rains - the soil has been undermined with water and it’s starting to slide now,” said California Department of Transportation spokesman Marc Bischoff. 1WMMTMJCTb- Pasadena Council District 6 March 30, 2023 Full repairs will be completed on or before 4/4. off-ramp until temp repairs will allow single lane access. The off-ramp has been fully closed and traffic is being diverted to the Del Mar Blvd. The state has seen a spate of sinkholes due to the recent rains.Ī sinkhole was discovered on the southbound 710 freeway off-ramp to California Blvd. Sinkholes are formed when water or erosion makes cavities beneath the surface of the land, causing it to eventually collapse or depress. Saturated soils, soaked with yet more rain, began to give way to landslides and sinkholes along freeways, including a portion of the 5 Freeway near Castaic and the 710 Freeway in Pasadena. The stretch of dryness comes after the latest storm made a mess of conditions in several areas. “With these kinds of situations, sometimes we’ll see rain or precipitation in the northern part of the state, the mountains, the Sierra Nevada, maybe down to some of our local mountains in the interior, but it’s not really a favorable situation for rain getting down into the L.A. Instead of coming in from the ocean, the “inside slider” storm would stay more inland, so it doesn’t have as much moisture to work with, Wofford said. Other sinkholes appeared at Cal State Los Angeles and in L.A. California Sinkholes crop up across Southern California after winter storms battered the regionĪ Ventura County high school closed after a car fell into a sinkhole in front of campus.
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