About 9,200 households in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch were dealing with a water service outage on Wednesday after the Los Angeles Department of Water Power announced that emergency repairs were underway at a pump station. The problem arose on Tuesday afternoon. The DWP said that as crews were making repairs of a leak at a pump station that connects to a 10-million-gallon tank, a valve controlling the flow of water failed to open. … On Wednesday morning, as DWP worked to make the permanent repairs, staff discovered two oil pipelines, a gas line, and large boulders that complicated their excavation efforts.

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