For years, San Diego Unified has known plumbing was aging at 78-year-old Emerson-Bandini Elementary School in Mountain View. In fact, three times in the past 13 years, Emerson’s plumbing needs were held up to voters as one of the reasons they should approve tax hikes to fund school repairs. Voters approved all three measures, pumping […]
Design flaws, construction shortcomings and maintenance errors caused the Oroville Dam spillway to break apart in February, according to an independent analysis by Robert Bea for the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley. Bea, a co-founder of the center and retired civil engineering professor, found that in the 1960s, when the dam was […]
/in San Diego County/by Andrea Mora /The San Diego Union Tribuneby Laura Groch Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
The Carlsbad City Council met in special closed session Tuesday for personnel evaluations. In regular session, the council held a hearing and voted 3-2 to deny permits for the Carlsbad Boat Club and Resort, a 20-unit timeshare condominium project at 4509 Adams St.; approved moving $100,000 from the Agricultural Conversion Mitigation Fee fund to the […]
Canyon Lake is closer to living up to its “a little bit of paradise” billing, thanks to some recent developments on issues facing the gated enclave and its namesake lake. The city’s nearly 11,000 residents will have the right to boat, ski, swim and fish on the 380-acre reservoir at the community for the next […]
Look, You Can’t Do a Ribbon-Cutting on New Plumbing
/in San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /Voice of San Diegoby Ry RivardFor years, San Diego Unified has known plumbing was aging at 78-year-old Emerson-Bandini Elementary School in Mountain View. In fact, three times in the past 13 years, Emerson’s plumbing needs were held up to voters as one of the reasons they should approve tax hikes to fund school repairs. Voters approved all three measures, pumping […]
Serious Design, Construction and Maintenance Defects Doomed Oroville Dam, Report Says
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Timesby Ralph VartabedianDesign flaws, construction shortcomings and maintenance errors caused the Oroville Dam spillway to break apart in February, according to an independent analysis by Robert Bea for the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley. Bea, a co-founder of the center and retired civil engineering professor, found that in the 1960s, when the dam was […]
How They Voted, April 16
/in San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /The San Diego Union Tribuneby Laura Groch Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityThe Carlsbad City Council met in special closed session Tuesday for personnel evaluations. In regular session, the council held a hearing and voted 3-2 to deny permits for the Carlsbad Boat Club and Resort, a 20-unit timeshare condominium project at 4509 Adams St.; approved moving $100,000 from the Agricultural Conversion Mitigation Fee fund to the […]
Why Canyon Lake Is On An Upswing
/in San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /The Press-Enterprise (Riverside)by Michael WilliamsCanyon Lake is closer to living up to its “a little bit of paradise” billing, thanks to some recent developments on issues facing the gated enclave and its namesake lake. The city’s nearly 11,000 residents will have the right to boat, ski, swim and fish on the 380-acre reservoir at the community for the next […]