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Two vastly different views: Both from LAC FD Helio Base in the Santa Monica mountains:
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January 7th during the Palisades Fire
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March 25th -- A beautiful spring day with views of snow-capped mountains to the east.
Work continues at the Bailey Canyon Debris Basin
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March 27th at 8:30 am
And the hills are greening up a bit.
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Santa Anita Canyon, March 27th at 8:30 am
Quite an amazing sum of dirt and rock has been removed thus far.
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March 31st at 12:30 pm PDT
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This was February 14th
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This was taken on January 29th and before the rains came it was about 50 feet deeper!
Photo courtesy of PasadenaNow.com and Jules Hotz for CalMatters
Work continues -- Looks like they are making the water drain-off channel a bit deeper now.
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April 3rd at 4 pm
Pivoted the camera to show the entire upstream area this morning.
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April 5th at 7:30 am PDT
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This could be the first Sunday (not raining) where the crew wasn't engaged on this site this year!
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April 6th at 11:30 am PDT
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Lots of activity today!
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April 7th at 11:30 am PDT
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Notice the red dump truck. It is getting loaded above and then heading up the ramp in the photo below:
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April 7th at 11:32 am PDT
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The surface of the dirt is now down about 20 feet from where they started digging.
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April 11th at 12:00 pm
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Lots activity today and you can see the level dropping
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April 16th at 9:42 am PDT
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And the amount of dirt removed, thus far, from Bailey Canyon is impressive.
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April 16th at 09:46 am PDT
Look how far down the CAT is relative to the dam top now.
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April 18th at Noon
Yeah that's a lot of dirt moved. I wonder where they are dumping it, perhaps a new mountain will be named!
Going a foot or so deeper this week
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April 24th at 9:45 am PDT (Sierra Madre Canyon, above the dam in Sierra Madre)
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This is the one I find the most amazing. The mud and water level used to be right near the top of the center drain. In fact, muddy water was flowing over the spillway to the right for awhile.
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April 24th at 9:47 am PDT (Bailey Canyon Debris Basin)
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Both piles continue to drop:
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Sierra Madre Canyon, April 25th at 1:54 pm PDT
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Bailey Canyon Debris Basin at 1:54 pm, April 25th