Two flooding incidents were reported in Venice Saturday, sending large amounts of water into residential streets in that seaside community in a scene uncomfortably close to the disaster that unfolded in West Hollywood two days earlier.<\/p>\n
A water pipe rupture was reported at about 8 a.m. Saturday in the Venice Canals area and involved a pipe owned by a landlord and not the city, officials said.<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power told City News Service that DWP crews investigated the rupture, but \u201cit turned out to be a property leak. The customer requested to leave service off for now.\u201d<\/p>\n
At about 12:25 p.m., flooding was reported in the 200 block of Grand Boulevard between Main Street and Riviera Avenue, a few blocks away from the Venice Canals, according to spokesman Jamie Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n
Stewart said the flooding was caused by a water main break in an alley. The LAFD was on the scene about 10 minutes before the Department of Water and Power took over, he said.<\/p>\n
Photos from the scene showed a significant amount of water flooding the alley.<\/p>\n
The Venice incidents were far less severe than Thursday\u2019s major flood in West Hollywood, where some 17 million gallons of water flowed into the streets after a 110-year-old section of pipe broke, but they were still unnerving for residents.<\/p>\n
\u201cI woke up to the sound of spraying. I saw water spewing into the sky above my apartment building,\u201d Venice Canals resident Raleigh Tomlinson told The California Post. \u201d \u2026 It filled up the entire street for about a block with deep water.\u201d<\/p>\n
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