West Hollywood city officials have been receiving an increasing number of complaints about mosquitoes, particularly from the construction site at the corner of Santa Monica and Melrose, where a significant multi-use development is underway.
This site, known as the Melrose Triangle, has a large, water-filled hole locals have dubbed “WeHo Lake.”
The stagnant green water in the excavation site has prompted the city to open a code enforcement case and issue a citation to the property owner in June.
Project Manager Jack Kurchian reported that recent vandalism damaged over 30 pumps responsible for removing groundwater. While the pumps are now operational, additional pumps are planned to accelerate drainage in this high water table area.
Officials from the Los Angeles County West Vector Control District confirmed they have been addressing the mosquito issue by conducting inspections and treatments in June and July. Their visits occurred on June 14, 18, and 20, and again on July 3 and 11.
“The location has been added to our list for follow-up inspections as needed until the project manager can eliminate the standing water problem,” Vector Control told FOX 11.
Residents with concerns are encouraged to contact the city’s Code Enforcement hotline at 323-848-6516 or email code@weho.org.
Maybe they shouldn’t have dug so deeply, so greedily, and created this b(alr)og. Yet another develobro boondoggle sponsored by this asinine government — and yes, I’m aware it was political generations ago and the point still stands.
What about the other cesspools festering. The cement hole [basement-to-be] on the northeast corner of Gardner & Romaine is a swamp. How many other stalled projects are there?
This is a danger to humans as well as animals.
Let’s get this cleaned up. Citations are not going to make this health hazard go away. Will a lawsuit against the City of West Hollywood for negligence? Rivas and his neglect have already contributed to two squatter house fires. Do we add West Nile and mosquitoes bite contributions to a death before this is cleaned up and filled in? Stop the lagging and do it.
Code enforcement is the biggest waste of $1 million in salaries. There is a home that thinks they are a dance club blasting music in their yard in the middle of the night. Code enforcement doesn’t pick up the phone. Weho sheriff says it is code enforcement responsibility. Code enforcement says, when provided with video evidence, “Our protocol is for us to physically see and hear any violation that is referred to us.” They don’t respond to complaints for sometimes days, and there is no way for them to physically see and hear the violation. Biggest waste of jobs.
Why did Vector Control conduct 5 site visits and Code Enforcement issued only ‘a citation’? Are the developers friends with the Director of Code Enforcement Danny Rivas?
Build high rise low income housing on the site! Now!
Or we could do that in areas that aren’t the most premium part of LA? I swear…not everyone gets to live in WeHo. I don’t get to live in Beverly Hills. Build homeless housing in Lancaster and don’t allow camping out in tourist areas.
Exactly….like when homeless land at the beach in Venice we are supposed to build them beach front units? Homeless means transient…transient means you can move them to the housing, you don’t have to move the housing to them.