A water pipe broke in the Venice Canals area Saturday, flooding a residential neighborhood in a scene uncomfortably close to the disaster that unfolded in West Hollywood two days earlier.
Saturday’s rupture was reported at about 8 a.m. and involved a pipe owned by a landlord and not the city.
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power told City News Service that DWP crews investigated the rupture, but “it turned out to be a property leak. The customer requested to leave service off for now.”
The Venice incident was far less severe than Thursday’s 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 it was still unnerving for residents.
“I woke up to the sound of spraying. I saw water spewing into the sky above my apartment building,” Raleigh Tomlinson told The California Post. ” … It filled up the entire street for about a block with deep water.”