To the editor: I’m unhappy to learn of the landslide in Rancho Palos Verdes, however apparently the individuals dwelling there need the federal government to struggle Mom Nature. (“Palos Verdes landslide retains getting worse. Residents’ anger boils,” Sept. 22)
On Jan. 10, 2005, a landslide struck the coastal group of La Conchita in Ventura County, destroying or significantly damaging 36 homes and killing 10 individuals. This was not the primary harmful landslide to wreck this group, neither is it prone to be the final, based on the U.S. Geological Survey.
Landslides within the cliffs and hills close to seashores are frequent. Amtrak has needed to cease service by way of Sam Clemente due to landslides close to its tracks in that space.
Anger is not going to resolve this downside. If there was an answer to the landslide in Rancho Palos Verdes, the federal government would have already taken that motion.
Don Evans, Canoga Park
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To the editor: I grew up in Lengthy Seashore. I bear in mind articles within the Lengthy Seashore Press-Telegram newspaper from the Nineteen Fifties mentioning the landslide within the Portuguese Bend space of Rancho Palos Verdes, a part of a well known space of prehistoric landslides.
The landslide there was reactivated in 1969, and there was steady earth motion ever since. Probably the most latest spectacular failures occurred on the former Ocean Trails Golf Membership in 1999, resulting in its chapter.
Within the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s, plainly the earth and homes would slide and finally be bulldozed, and after a requisite time new houses can be in-built the identical areas of Portuguese Bend. I puzzled then as now why constructing permits would ever be granted in such a identified unstable space.
Mom Nature all the time has the final phrase.
Richard Wulfsberg, Studio Metropolis
