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Officials have made progress in fixing a massive water system rupture on the Sunset Strip that sent 17 million gallons of water into surrounding neighborhoods. But Sunset Boulevard has been closed for six days so far.

Officials haven’t given a specific reopening date. Thursday’s break was on a riveted steel pipe from 1916 that is part of the system of major arteries that deliver water from reservoirs and tanks to smaller distribution mainlines across Los Angeles. There are about 547 miles of trunk line underground across the city, much of which is nearing the end of its useful life and will need to be replaced in the coming years.

El Niño is back, and it might be bigger than ever.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared in June that the threshold for an El Niño had been met in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and that it was likely to strengthen significantly through the end of the year — potentially becoming the strongest on record by a wide margin.

A section of Sunset Boulevard remained closed on Sunday because of last week’s destructive water main break, with officials saying they didn’t know when repairs to the 110-year-old pipe would be completed or the street reopened.

“While there is no set completion date yet, our crews remain dedicated to finishing the repairs as quickly and safely as possible,” the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said in a Sunday news release.

In a bid to prop up a rapidly shrinking Lake Mead and protect the Southwest’s electricity grid, Southern California’s primary water wholesaler approved a deal Tuesday to leave up to 200,000 acre-feet of its Colorado River supply in the reservoir this year.

Under the agreement, the federal government will pay the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) $325 per acre-foot–up to $65 million total–to keep the water in the reservoir rather than delivering it to Southern California cities. The funding is backed by the federal Inflation Reduction Act’s Lower Colorado River Basin System Conservation and Efficiency Program.

The largest water district in California has agreed to leave billions of gallons of water in Lake Mead this year in an effort to save America’s largest reservoir — in exchange for up to $65 million in cold hard cash.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California serves 26 different public water agencies, which in turn deliver water to about 19 million people spanning Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties. The water giant holds some of the oldest and largest rights to the Colorado River, and was founded in the 1920s to build the 242-mile aqueduct that diverts water from the river and toward Southern California’s population centers.