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Gate Valve to Flooding
2011-02-22
Leucadia's flooding now a city management decision?
To the city of Encinitas Engineering Department, Public Works
Department and any other citizens concerned about dirty water going in
to the ocean:
On Dec. 21, Leucadia was hit with a storm that dropped more than an inch of rain. Although the system in the Leucadia area handled the storm all though the morning hours, at about 1:50 p.m. the city decided to open a gate valve on Vulcan by RCP to release water from the east side of the railroad tracks south of Union Street. In doing so, it overtaxed the system downstream in Leucadia and caused flooding in the sump areas west of 101, coming close to flooding and endangering more than 20 homes.
The city procedure is to pump this dirty, raw, unfiltered water over the bluff to Beacon
On Dec. 21, Leucadia was hit with a storm that dropped more than an inch of rain. Although the system in the Leucadia area handled the storm all though the morning hours, at about 1:50 p.m. the city decided to open a gate valve on Vulcan by RCP to release water from the east side of the railroad tracks south of Union Street. In doing so, it overtaxed the system downstream in Leucadia and caused flooding in the sump areas west of 101, coming close to flooding and endangering more than 20 homes.
The city procedure is to pump this dirty, raw, unfiltered water over the bluff to Beacon
