To the editor: A California-certified engineering geologist who has labored on landslides for many years writes that the state ought to require homes within the Portuguese Bend landslide space to be dismantled and the residents to vacate. (“Why houses have been constructed on the Rancho Palos Verdes landslide. It’s not the town’s fault,” letters, Sept. 9)
I’ve lived on this energetic landslide space of Rancho Palos Verdes for many years and don’t have any plans to go away. Our home is on metal beams and strikes together with the slide, and we’ll go off the grid now that energy has been reduce.
My mother and father purchased our property in 1948. I used to be 11 when, in 1956, the landslide was triggered when L.A. County tried to increase Crenshaw Boulevard.
Geologists knew the realm sat on a dormant historic landslide, however the county didn’t notify parcel consumers of this reality. Individuals who remained discovered how you can be versatile and resilient.
Now, two years of heavy rain have brought on an acceleration and enlargement of the land motion, however there are answers that may gradual it if funding is forthcoming.
By the best way, all of California is in peril if a big quake happens. I really feel safer right here than I might within the L.A. Basin.
Tony Baker, Rancho Palos Verdes
