SMMUSD Official Says SCE Blackout Plans Not Explained
Written by 991KBU on August 16, 2018
Santa Monica Malibu School District officials say they are very concerned with plans by Southern California Edison to pre-emptively shut off power to Malibu this fall … if serious Santa Ana winds devlope as they usually do.
District officials say they may have to close schools if they get a warning from the utility that an approaching wind event may trigger power outages …. that they cannot operate campuses and get their students and employees to and from schools if traffic lights are blacked out.
District operations director Carey Upton tells KBUU news says blackouts will cost the district …
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“… days of educating students, or, it does cost us ADA, or it costs us time that students will have to stay in school, if they do it a number of times, and we don’t know what the California Department of Education, what their response will be to this.
“Will they consider this an emergency?
“We don’t know.”
Despite a state rule that the electric company consult with affected agencies on the coming blackouts … the school district official says the only communication he has had from the Edison company is a letter.
It says Malibu High .. Juan Cabrillo and Point Dume schools will lose power in high winds.
But not Webster.
Upton says that’s a puzzlement … given the history of wildfires in Malibu Canyon.
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“As we’ve known, the last place we had a significant fire, we had a significant fire there not long ago there that actually did touch the school and burned down the church and burned down the castle.”
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Today is the day that dirt removal will begin in earnest from Malibu High School.
About 13-hundred cubic yards of soil will be dig up … a hole 5 feet deep where the new buildings will be located …
Local school officials decide its better to spend 400 thousand dollars to hauk off dirt … dirt that is basically clean .. with some of it showing traces of PCB that are far below safety standards … almost below detection.
The dirt will be hauled off by dozens of trucks… maybe as many as 75 to 100 trucks … depending on capacity.
