{"id":273201,"date":"2010-02-03T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128775a03e6970c"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:03:36","slug":"crews-work-to-repair-water-main-breaks-in-northridge-gardena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/273201","title":{"rendered":"Crews work to repair water main breaks in Northridge, Gardena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-inch cast-iron water main broke early Wednesday morning in Northridge, flooding streets and leaving hundreds of customers in apartment complexes without power.<\/p>\n<p>All southbound lanes of Reseda Boulevard from Strathern to Arminta streets were closed after the 2:34 a.m. break in the 7900 block of Reseda Boulevard. Officials expect the street to remain closed until noon.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived, water had seeped up through the ground, covering the street with several inches of water, said Capt. Steve Ruda of the Los Angeles Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>What caused the break was not yet known, said\u00a0MaryAnne Pierson, a spokeswoman for the L.A. Department of Water and Power.\u00a0Moderate damage to the street was reported, Pierson said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#8217;s not a sinkhole or anything like that,&quot; she said. &quot;No major repairs, but it probably had some buckling and crackling.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere crews from Golden State Water Company worked to repair a break in a 6-inch, 55-year-old water main\u00a0that cut off 30 Gardena business customers. The break occurred at 130th Street between Halldale Avenue and Western Avenue, said company spokesman John Dewey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Amina Khan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-inch cast-iron water main broke early Wednesday morning in Northridge, flooding streets and leaving hundreds of customers in apartment complexes without power. All southbound lanes of Reseda Boulevard from Strathern to Arminta streets were closed after the 2:34 a.m. break in the 7900 block of Reseda Boulevard. Officials expect the street to remain closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}