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July 31, 2014

Ruptured water main hits UCLA hard

  • Water poured into Pauley Pavilion, which underwent a $132 million renovation less than two years ago.
    • By BRIAN MELLEY
    Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES — A ruptured 93-year-old water main left the UCLA campus awash in 8 million gallons of water in the middle of California's worst drought in decades, stranding people in parking garages and flooding the school's storied basketball court less than two years after a major renovation.

    The 30-inch pipe burst Tuesday under nearby Sunset Boulevard, sending water 30 feet into the air, opening a 15-foot hole in the street and inundating part of the campus that soon was swarmed with police and firefighters.


     
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