Local News in Brief : More Funds for Landslide Project
The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council, sitting as the Redevelopment Agency, adopted a 1988-89 operating and capital improvement budget of $1.9 million this week.
The largest revenue chunks are for continued grading and drainage to stabilize the Portuguese Bend landslide.
Earth movement toward the sea has slowed from 1 1/2 inches to one-tenth of an inch a day since work on the slide began last year, Councilman Melvin W. Hughes told the agency. To further slow it, an additional 100,000 cubic yards of dirt must be removed, he said. The dirt will be used to stabilize a slide on the north side of the peninsula in Torrance off Vista Montana.
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