Local News in Brief : Funding to Stabilize Land
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a $10-million bond sale for the Community Redevelopment Agency to begin stabilizing earth beneath the sinking foundations in the troubled Monterey Hills condo project northeast of downtown.
A concrete-type mixture will be injected into the earth beneath portions of the Eaton Crest and Temple Terrace developments. Of the 1,611 condominiums and townhouses in the 211-acre project area, 337 units are in need of repair for cracks and other problems, and another 311 are being monitored.
The council approved the funding after hearing assurances from the building and safety staff that the stabilization plan, known as “grouting,” would work. A hole will be drilled into bedrock, and the concrete mixture will be pumped in under high pressure, in theory consolidating the soil. The process would be repeated in different holes moving up the slope.
The method has been used successfully by Caltrans, and in the shoring of a residential project in San Diego called Mount La Jolla, CRA officials said.
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