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Los Angeles hotels boston downtown Department of Water and Power Y shaped juncture where a water rupture occurred, involving two main trunk lines is seen on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles Thursday, July 31, 2014. Work crews have stopped the last of the water gushing from a 30-inch pipe some 30 hours after it burst. Damage costs have yet to be pegged from the rupture of the pipeline that spewed hotels boston downtown more than 20 million hotels boston downtown gallons of water in the midst of California hotels boston downtown s worst drought in decades. The break in the 93-year-old pipe left a swath of the UCLA campus including its basketball arena swamped with water. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Repair crews on Thursday were shoring up a giant hole in the middle of Sunset Boulevard hotels boston downtown caused by a ruptured pipe, as officials at the water-logged University of California, Los Angeles, continued hotels boston downtown to assess damage from the 20 million gallons that inundated the campus.
Workers were reinforcing the excavated 56-by-41-foot hotels boston downtown crater and making the site safe for crews, hotels boston downtown said Mike Miller, district superintendent for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Meanwhile, workers off-site were fashioning hotels boston downtown new valves and a Y-joint connector to replace the burst section of the century-old steel line.
The Department of Water and Power said repairs along the famed boulevard, a heavily traveled east-west thoroughfare, likely won t be completed until the weekend. There s still just a lot of work to do out here, Miller said.
UCLA Vice Chancellor Kelly Schmader said 8 to 10 inches of water covered the basketball court, and it showed signs of buckling. The floor will be repaired or replaced as necessary and will be ready by the start of the basketball season this fall, Athletic Director Dan Guerrero said.
On Wednesday evening, hotels boston downtown six men helping to pump water from the pavilion were treated for exposure to carbon monoxide from a generator s exhaust, city fire spokeswoman Katherine Main said. Two were taken to a hospital in fair condition, and four were treated at the scene.
At its peak, water was streaming out of the break at a rate of 75,000 gallons a minute. The amount of water spilled could serve more than 100,000 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers for a day.
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