Work efforts are met with gratitude, grace, and curiosity

By Kaylin Paschall, TME

Jonnie Allison has his hands full. Workers from Frazier Park Public Utility District have been knee deep in projects staged around the Frazier Park area, particularly north of Los Padres Drive and Mount Pinos Way.

The work involves a strategy called pot-holing, and is a gentle solution FPPUD has devised to uncover what appear to be many unmapped pipes that were placed in the roads years before the current administration’s time.

“Without maps, we can’t know…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

A hydrovac excavates hidden pipes feet below the surface of Elm Trail in Frazier Park

Two men work on Elm Trail. Once found, the pipes will have to be covered in three feet of dirt.

Illustration depicting the early warning-shutdown-detection system in place

A map that hangs in the office at FPPUD shows some of the known pipe systems of Frazier Park. Many pipes which had been installed in the 1960’s had not been mapped.

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This is part of the September 9, 2022 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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