As hundreds of workers prepared to deploy Sunday to empty catch basins once again filled with mud and debris, all evacuation orders were lifted for residents of Southern California’s foothills. <\/p>\n
L.A. County Sheriff\u2019s Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said the evacuation orders had been lifted,\u00a0 including for Paradise Valley in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge. <\/p>\n
Catch basins in the foothills had only recently been emptied after the
\nweeklong storm that hit Southern California last month when Saturday
\nmorning\u2019s torrent of rain filled them again. Bob Spencer, L.A. County Department of Public Works spokesman, said about 1,000 of the department’s employees were expected to be deployed
\nSunday across the county and would use bulldozers, plows, dump trucks
\nand cranes to sweep neighborhood streets and attempt to clear out
\ninlets and debris basins.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat series of storms two weeks ago, we took about 300,000 cubic yards of material out of our debris basins,\u201d L.A. County Department of Public Works spokesman Bob Spencer said. \u201cThis is going to be about the same.\u201d
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<\/br>The basins, he said, would take several weeks to empty completely.
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<\/br>\u201cThe day after an event like this, what\u2019s in the debris basins is basically soup,\u201d Spencer said. \u201cIt\u2019s like trying to clean out a swimming pool with a shovel. The water\u2019s just going to slide out.\u201d
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<\/br>With a capacity of 10,000 cubic yards, the Mullally flood basin on Manistee Drive in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge is one of the city\u2019s smallest but is crucial to the area. Its overflow on Saturday sent mud oozing into dozens of homes in the Paradise Valley neighborhood.
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<\/br>\u201cWhat happened with Mullally yesterday is a huge boulder clogged the inlet and caused the debris to top over and come down the street,\u201d Spencer said. \u201cWe were prepared for that, that\u2019s why all the K-rails were here. But there was such a tremendous amount of debris that it overwhelmed" the barriers.
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<\/br>Of the 43 mud-damaged homes in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge and La Crescenta, nine were red-tagged, meaning entry was temporarily prohibited. In addition, 25 vehicles were damaged.
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<\/br>— Corina Knoll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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