Riviera Homeowners' Association - Los Angeles, California

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THEFT WARNING: As many as eight gardeners have had their trucks and/or equipment stolen recently in the Riviera neighborhood. Please alert your gardeners and construction crews to this problem. According to the LAPD, the trucks are showing up but the equipment is being taken. Posted 6/2/11

Ongoing Delays for PCH Sewer Project, WORK HAS BEGUN. See below for details.

By SUE PASCOE
Staff Writer

Although Los Angeles officials posted notification signs along Sunset Boulevard two weeks ago that work was soon to begin on the $10-million Coastal Interceptor Relief Sewer (CIRS) along Pacific Coast Highway, there is still no firm start date.

According to Michelle Vargas, public information officer for the Department of Public Works, the City is waiting for permits from Caltrans. Once they are received, the City has 10 days to notify the public about construction.

During construction, two southbound lanes of PCH will be closed from
9 p.m. to 4 a.m. Monday through Fridays from Chautauqua Boulevard to the southernmost point of the Will Rogers Beach parking lot. From 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. one southbound lane will be closed. There are no closures expected on the northbound side.

The 4,500-foot sewer will stretch from an area south of Temescal Canyon Road to the Annenberg Community Beach House. About 3,100 feet of the sewer will be built under PCH, with the remaining 1,400 feet under the county’s beach parking lot. Work is planned during the summer on PCH, but not in the beach parking lots (from Memorial Day through Labor Day).

In conjunction with the 18-month project, a temporary pedestrian- and bike-path bridge was completed over the Chautauqua channel last weekend.

Updated low-flow diversions (there are five in Pacific Palisades—at Santa Monica Canyon, Potrero Canyon, Temescal Canyon, Bay Club Drive and Marquez Avenue) now operate year-round during dry weather, collecting water runoff.

The water from those diversions will be pumped through the CIRS to the Hyperion Water Treatment Center next to Dockweiller Beach. City officials hope this will lead to less ocean pollution, and help the City reach national EPA standards for clean coastal waters.

October 2009 through December 2011 Construction Along PCH More Info

For information from the Los Angeles Fire Department on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness go to: www.cert-la.com/EmergPrepBooklet.pdf

The Palisades Chamber of Commerce has produced a very comprehensive folder for Emergency and Disaster Preparedness. Call Flo Elfant at 310-459-7963. To access this information on-line, click on: www.palisadespost.com. Go to ‘helpful links’.

The following are just some of the tips and helpful hints involved in getting prepared:

Store one gallon of water per person per day. Rotate water supply every 6 months (do not store water bottles on concrete, put wood underneath)

Get a hardline phone (the old fashioned kind that does not require electricity)

While the shaking is going on...stay where you are. Take cover. After earthquake, go outside and look at house. Did it shift off foundation? Is gas leaking?

Family plan….this is what you do... Get your backpack, check in with neighbor and emergency numbers, where to meet, etc.

Get under something...triangle theory is wrong most of the time!

If you're in bed...cover head with a pillow or roll out of bed and lay next to bed if something could fall on you.

Crow bar under every bed & car

Backpack under every bed (*meds, clothes, flashlight, glow sticks, water, space blanket, uggs, whistle walkie talkies, batteries)

Always look to see how you can exit a place

Family picture w/ pets (show proof to pick up pets); Extra pet food; pet records

Thumbdrive
*scan important docs
*email docs to yourself
*passports, drivers license, bank statements, pet records

Generator (any neighbors have one?)

How to turn off gas
*only turn off if you smell gas or hear a hissing sound
*know how to re-light pilot & what appliances to turn on

Shut off electricity
Flip off individual switches
Then shut off the main

Tape a glow stick inside electrical panel and by gas shut off valve

Water shut off
Valve outside of the house...not main valve at street

Toilet tank...useable water for rinsing
Pool water...does anyone in the neighborhood have drinkable pool water?
Clorox bleach purifies water

Line toilet with trash bag to use toilet...Kitty litter in bag to absorb

CERT Program
Schedule training

Keep small denominations of cash available