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August 1, 2014

After massive water pipe break, who pays?

  • No one knows the cost yet for the 20-million-gallon UCLA break, but six facilities were damaged and about 960 vehicles are trapped in garages.
    • By BRIAN MELLEY
    Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of cars submerged below murky water. A landmark basketball court, newly refurbished, showing signs of buckling. Soaked and stained carpets. An athletic track coated in mud.

    Damage costs have yet to be pegged from the rupture of a pipeline that spewed more than 20 million gallons of water in the midst of California's worst drought in decades. But officials Wednesday were beginning to assess its soggy aftermath at the University of California, Los Angeles.


     
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