Sunday Pipeline Work Requested
To help ease weekday traffic congestion, the city of Los Angeles Board of Public Works on Monday asked Mobil Oil to work Sundays to finish pipeline construction at three busy areas in the San Fernando Valley.
Joe Lucas, district engineer in the San Fernando Valley for the city’s Bureau of Engineering, said Mobil agreed to work Sundays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to speed completion of the pipeline project at Victory Boulevard and Haskell Avenue, Sepulveda Boulevard and Burbank Boulevard, and Sepulveda Boulevard from Ventura Boulevard to Dickens Street.
The oil company is expected to begin and end work at each of the intersections in a single weekend, Lucas said. The oil company’s previous city permit alowed work only on weekdays and Saturdays, but the board altered the permit Monday to also allow Sunday work. On weekends, the oil company may now work a 10-hour day.
On weekdays, the firm is permitted to work from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Mobil is building a 92-mile-long pipeline to connect its Lebec pump station in Kern County with its refinery in Torrance. Mobil has been working from north to south and is “now just north of the Sepulveda Basin,” Lucas said.
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