The Prostitutes' Ball (2010)
“"What is it?" Hitch said, crowding in to look over my shoulder. "DWP seal" "The electrical panel? Shouldn't it be against the side of the house? Why would they put it way out here?" "They wouldn't." I was beginning to remember where I'd seen one of these poured-concrete garages before. It was at an old turn-of-the-century house I'd visited at a party up in the Malibu Mountains a few years back. "You know what I think this is?" I said. "What?" "This garage is covering an old water well. I've see...n one of these before." "A well. Why would they need a well?" Hitch asked.
"This house was built in 1908 and back then they didn't have an extensive water system in L. A. That was before the Owens Valley project. These old houses were built way before the water mains were installed up here. The owners would pay DWP to drill down to the water table and install these private wells. After the water mains were put into service, the private wells were decommissioned." "So what's the garage for?" "The guy who owned the house where I saw one of these told me you can't fill in a water well because it connects to an underground aquifer and whatever you pour down the well to fill it in just gets washed away." "So they capped it, right?" "Right, but the problem with that is vandals kept pulling the caps off.MoreLess
"This house was built in 1908 and back then they didn't have an extensive water system in L. A. That was before the Owens Valley project. These old houses were built way before the water mains were installed up here. The owners would pay DWP to drill down to the water table and install these private wells. After the water mains were put into service, the private wells were decommissioned." "So what's the garage for?" "The guy who owned the house where I saw one of these told me you can't fill in a water well because it connects to an underground aquifer and whatever you pour down the well to fill it in just gets washed away." "So they capped it, right?" "Right, but the problem with that is vandals kept pulling the caps off.MoreLess
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