SCE Explains Its Painting Snafu In Malibu Canyon: They Didn’t Know It Was Required
Written by 991KBU on October 11, 2018
Southern California Edison is about to start closing off traffic lanes in Malibu Canyon … to paint the 100 or so metal power poles it just installed there.
Flaggers will be directing traffic from now until February … as crews climb the polls or used trucks to paint the polls a nice neutral color.
Edison says the requirement paint the new steel poles comes form L A County Planning … after members of the public complaint about the visual impact of the steel poles to the Canyon.
Edison was under the gun to finish the project by 2014 … under a settlement approved by the California Public Utilities Commission after a Malibu resident filed a complaint over the 2007 fire … caused by the poles collapse.
Edison and the cellular phone companies were required to put in metal poles in Malibu Canyon … as penance for having overloaded those polls and causing the fire.
County planners set the industrial installation had to be camouflaged … and required that as part of the coastal development permit.
But Edison had been given permission to put in the polls before it got the final CDP.
Edison got special permission from LA County to install the poles using emergency permits … following up with regular CDP applications during construction.
And Edison points out that it usually doesn’t paint its poles.
Malibu Canton is the exception.
Isn’t that special … you might think … as you sit in traffic lines this winter waiting for one lane traffic control.
The project is supposed to be finished in February.
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And because Southern California Edison is threatening to turn off the electricity in severe Santa Anas … we’re keeping a close eye on the extended weather forecasts this winter.
And the US forest service Long range forecast for Southern California indicates a strange weather pattern for this weekend.
Southern California Will experience an unusual offshore wind flow pattern developing this weekend.
Those could potentially bring us our first Santa Ana winds of the season … starting Sunday.
A hurricane is blowing across Baja California and into Arizona.
Scattered light showers may fall south and east of Los Angeles.
