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Two vastly different views: Both from LAC FD Helio Base in the Santa Monica mountains:
January 7th during the Palisades Fire
March 25th -- A beautiful spring day with views of snow-capped mountains to the east.
Two Moments in time from Bravo Base
Two vastly different views: Both from LAC FD Helio Base in the Santa Monica mountains:
January 7th during the Palisades Fire
March 25th -- A beautiful spring day with views of snow-capped mountains to the east.
Still Digging and removing Dirt
Work continues at the Bailey Canyon Debris Basin
March 27th at 8:30 am
From the Heltiack repeater station
And the hills are greening up a bit.
Santa Anita Canyon, March 27th at 8:30 am
Back at the dam
Quite an amazing sum of dirt and rock has been removed thus far.
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
Digging continues
Work continues -- Looks like they are making the water drain-off channel a bit deeper now.
April 3rd at 4 pm
Upstream view
Pivoted the camera to show the entire upstream area this morning.
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!
April 6th at 11:30 am PDT
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Lots of activity today!
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:
April 7th at 11:32 am PDT
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Last edited by Mark Sedenquist; 04-07-2025 at 11:10 AM. Reason: new images
And deeper and deeper they go
The surface of the dirt is now down about 20 feet from where they started digging.
April 11th at 12:00 pm
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Lots activity today and you can see the level dropping
April 16th at 9:42 am PDT
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And the amount of dirt removed, thus far, from Bailey Canyon is impressive.
April 16th at 09:46 am PDT
Last edited by Mark Sedenquist; 04-16-2025 at 09:48 AM. Reason: new photos
Going deeper
Look how far down the CAT is relative to the dam top now.
April 18th at Noon
A mountain of dirt.
Yeah that's a lot of dirt moved. I wonder where they are dumping it, perhaps a new mountain will be named!
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