San Diego is My Home

05
Oct

Water Issues

Author: HelenKay, Category: Environment, Neighborhoods

San Diego is bordered by ocean on one side and desert on the other.  Being a beach community of sorts, water usually is considered a good thing.  Not this week.   In addition to the landslide/road collapse/sinkhole in La Jolla, there’s a huge problem with broken water pipes in Pacific Beach.  The combination resulted in closed roads and heated tempers.  And something even worse…lawsuits.

Yep.  Didn’t take long.  Lawyers are lining up to blame the La Jolla mess on the city, leaking pipes and other problems (other than the homeowners’ decisions to build there).  With the cost of mudslide insurance - and, really, who knew there was such a thing - being ridiculously high, many folks in the La Jolla destruction zone likely don’t have it.  Lawsuits might be the only way to recoup money.  Sure, that doesn’t resolve the issue of this neighborhood being built on a known geologically catastrophe, but it does gives us all something about which to argue.