A city advisory to boil all tap water before using it was lifted
Friday
morning after Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
officials
determined there was no further threat of contamination.
"After careful evaluation of the area water supply … we
discovered
there was no danger," said Gale Harris, a spokeswoman for the
LADWP.
The city issued a press release saying the water was deemed safe
at
about 8:50 a.m. Friday.
The advisory was put into effect Wednesday afternoon after a
36-inch
water main ruptured north of UCLA’s campus near the Lower Stone
Canyon
Reservoir. Workers had been trying to fix a leaky valve and
broke the
pipe in the process, said LADWP spokeswoman Kim Hughes.
Jack Powazek, UCLA assistant vice chancellor for general
services, said
Thursday that the university would return to normal water usage
as soon
as the LADWP determined it was safe to do so.
The affected area included all of the UCLA campus and
Westwood,
encompassing the City of Beverly Hills on the east, Sepulveda
Boulevard
on the west, Somma Way on the north and Santa Monica Boulevard
on the
south.
Wednesday afternoon, those affected by the break, which included
about
25,000 West Los Angeles residents, were without water pressure
for
several hours as crews worked to repair the rupture. Dining
halls on
campus were closed at the beginning of dinner and students
flocked to
Westwood for alternative dinners. Bottled water provided by the
city
was handed out around campus throughout Wednesday and
Thursday.
With reports from Bruin staff.